Dear Colleagues, Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention (APOCP) is a non-governmental organization that is engaged in cancer control especially in the Asia-Pacific region, where we encounter more than 60% of all cancer cases. As the Director of the Cancer Control Department of the Ministry of Health of Turkey, I had been elected to be the president of APOCP. Therefore, the 5th International APOCP General Assembly Conference has been decided to be held in İstanbul. This meeting will be held in Lütfi Kırdar International Convention& Exhibition Centre in İstanbul on April 3-7, 2010. The first week of April is also “the National Cancer Week” in Turkey, and this coincidence offers a great opportunity for the activities aiming at raising cancer awareness. Owing to the oincidences with Istanbul’s becoming a European Capital of Culture in 2010 and “the National Cancer Week”, there emerges an opportunity for the implementation of a great project that will bridge the continents for cancer control methodology. While highlighting the issue of cancer, we will also bring forward the city of Istanbul by means of its history, and the issues of arts and sports by means of people’s living spaces. Above all, we aim to unite all the world’s countries and continents in İstanbul in a single body gainst cancer. We look forward to seeing our friends from all over the world, who aspire to fight against cancer, in Istanbul on April 3-7, 2010 for this crucial event. I hope you will enjoy being in İstanbul, where the continents meet through the magnificent Bosphorus. Prof. A. Murat Tuncer M.D., President, Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the members of the APOCP, I would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Murat Tuncer, President of the APOCP, Dr. Nejat Ozgul, Congress Secretary of the 5th APOCP General Assembly Conference, and the local organizing committee members for their great efforts in preparing the General Assembly Conference. The main theme "Continents Bridging for Cancer Control" is very timely and seems very motivated in the Aslan-Paclflc Region where cancer incidence is rapidly increasing recent years. The APOCP was founded 10 years ago to promote cancer prevention and also collaborative studies in the Asian Pacific countries. I believe that this 5th General Assembly Conference will be a key to successful continuation ol our APOCP activities. For practical cancer prevention in the Asian Pacific reqions, we need to emphasize out own information, ideas and achievements. One of the inherent roles that APOCP should play in preventing cancer is to facilitate International cooperation in the global campaign aqainst cancer including the recommendation at policy alternatives for more effective prevention interventions worldwide. One of the important activities of the APOCP is publishing the APJCP maintained by the big effort of the Chief/Managing Editor, Malcolm Moore. I hope that the APJCP will continue to function to disseminate and exchange information of mutual interest on cancer epidemiology and the other areas of prevention in the Asian Pacific and the world. The future success of the APOCP/ APJCP will depend on your collaboration and positive achievements. The Asia Regional Office of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC-ARO) has been established in Bangkok in 2006 and the APOCP activity will be supported in part by the UICC in Geneva and the UICC Japan. Now the APOCP is 10 years old and we hope that it will increasingly contribute as a locomotive for future implementation of the practical prevention program in the Asian Pacific region in coordination with the UICC-ARO. I wish the APOCP could play a role for the future implementation of the cancer control in the Asian Pacific regions.