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October 10-11, 2024 ACC 20th Anniversary General Membership Meeting (Hybrid)

Hybrid meeting in Seoul/online on October 10-11 (KST/JST) 

Meeting Overview:

ACC is going to hold a 20th Anniversary General Membership Meeting on Oct. 10-11 in Seoul, Korea. All ACC members are welcome to join and other interested parties may join if invited by an ACC member.
Th meeting will be hybrid and you can join either onsite in Seoul or online. 

Meeting Details: 

Date
October 10-11, 2024 

Venue
Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University  
- Address: SNUCRI, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (03080)
- Website: https://cri.snu.ac.kr/en

Hybrid
We are planning a concurrent hybrid meeting. The registered participants will receive the link a few days before the meeting.

Registration:

Registration is available on the ACC members website.
Please register by Aug.31.
If you are not an ACC member but invited by a member or interested in ACC activity, please contact to the Coordinating Center at cc@asiacohort.org for the registration.

Agenda    *as of Sep.17

The agenda is still subject to minor change and will be updated here accordingly. Download PDF

ACC General Membership Meeting - Celebrating 20 Years of ACC
Date: October 10(Thu)-11(Fri), 2024
Venue: Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University
     
Day 1: Thursday, October 10th, 2024  
Registration (8:30-9:00)
Educational session: “How to analyze the ACC data?”(9:00-11:00) Chair: Ji-Yeob Choi (SNU) 
Welcome and Introduction  Jeongseon Kim (Educational Session Chair)
ACC remote system and introduction to ACC variables Rashedul Islam / Shafiur Rahman (ACC DC)
Hands-on workshop 1- reproductive factors and gallbladder cancer (package: R) Sooyoung Cho (SNU)
Hands-on workshop 2- coffee and liver cancer (package: SAS) Hyun Jeong Cho (SNU)
General discussion and closing  
Lunch (11:00-12:30) :  Lunch box provided, with SNU area introduction
General Membership Meeting (12:30-18:00) 
Session1         Chair: Paolo Boffetta 
Welcome  
Updates from the ACC Coordinating Center Sarah Abe (ACC CC)
Working Group updates  
 Diet Working Group Jung Eun Lee, Jeongseon Kim (Diet WG leads)
 Reproductive Factor Working Group Aesun Shin (Reproductive WG lead)
Cohort  
 Introduction to the Healthy Zhejiang one million people cohort Xifeng Wu (Zhejiang University)
Session2  Project updates      Chair: Jeongseon Kim
#29 Salt/salty food intake and risk of gastric cancer Minkyo Song (NIH)
#48 Body mass index and risk of liver cancer in Asia Shafiur Rahman (NCC Japan)
#70 Joint association of body mass index and waist circumference with head and neck cancer incidence and mortality risk in Asian population Sangjun Lee (SNU)
#72 Association between smoking and gynecological cancer incidence and mortality in Asia Soseul Sung (SNU)
#73 Association between reproductive/hormone and liver cancer factors in Asian women Youjin Hong (SNU)
#74 Obesity is associated with the prostate cancer incidence and mortality Madhawa Gunathilake (NCC Korea)
#78 Eurasian C&C Risk Project & Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium Project Thiess Lorenz (University Heart and Vascular Center)
Coffee Break
Session3  New Proposals      Chair: Wei Zheng
#83 Impact of Female Reproductive and Hormonal Factors on the Risk of Colorectal Cancer  Ji Yoon Baek (SNU Korea)
#84 Evaluating Body Mass Index with total and cause-specific mortality by age groups Zheng Guo (Vanderbilt University, USA)
GMM Conclusion Manami Inoue (ACC Chair)
Dinner (18:00-): onsite
Day 2: Friday, October 11th, 2024
Ceremonial session for the 20 years of ACC (10:00-12:00) Moderator: Jung Eun Lee (SNU, Korea)
Session1       Chair: Manami Inoue
Congratulatory remarks   
History of the ACC Daehee Kang (SNU, Korea)
The Next Frontier: Big Data, New Technology, and Omics in Epidemiology Wei Zheng (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Newer technologies in measurement Rashmi Sinha (NCI, USA)
Epidemiology research in countries in transition: the role of cohort studies Paolo Boffetta (Stony Brook University, USA)
Session2   Panel discussion       
Direction of next-generation epidemiological research   
            Chairs:  Manami Inoue (NCC, Japan)
  Daehee Kang (SNU, Korea)
            Discussants:  Paolo Boffetta (Stony Brook University, USA)
  Jeongseon Kim (NCC, Korea)
  Jung Eun Lee (SNU, Korea) 
  Aesun Shin (SNU, Korea)
  Wei Zheng (Vanderbilt University, USA)

 

Organizing Committee

- Local Organizing Committee Chair: Aesun Shin (SNU, Korea)
- Advisor to the Local Organizing Committee Chair: Daehee Kang (SNU, Korea)
- Educational Session Chair: Jeongseon Kim (NCC, Korea)
- Publication Committee Chair: Jung Eun Lee (SNU, Korea)
- Public Relationship Chair: Sue K. Park (SNU, Korea)
- Secretariat: Ji Yoon Baek  

General Contact: 

The ACC Coordinating Center
National Cancer Center Japan
Institute for Cancer Control
5-1-1 Tsukiji, Tokyo 104-0045, JAPAN
Email: cc@asiacohort.org   
Tel: +81-(0)3-3547-5201