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Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention (APOCP)
APOCP is a non-political, non-profit organization to promote cancer prevention and collaborative studies in the Asia Pacific region. The aims of APOCP are to provide opportunities for expert researchers to exchange mutual information for cancer prevention, to promote collaborative studies on cancer epidemiology and prevention, and to facilitate the implementation of active programs for cancer prevention.

The Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention (APOCP) and its official journal the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (APJCP) were established in the lead up to the new century by a group of Japanese Professors very active in cancer research. The two main fields to be covered were cancer epidemiology and toxicological pathology but this soon was expanded to cover all areas pertinent to cancer control programs.

By reaching out to the cancer research community across the Asia-Pacific a consensus was reached to make an official launch at the Founding Conference of the APOCP in Thailand in 2000, attended by delegates from Japan, Korea, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, New Zealand, the USA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Through contacts with the IARC the journal was chosen to be one of the official journals of the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) and this led to a close co-operation which continued until 2015 and included publication of “Cancer Registration in Asia in the Year 2000 – Past, Present and Future” and a special “History of the IACR” supplement.

The main activities of APOCP has been the holding of scientific conferences and publication of its journal (The Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention).

The General Assembly and Regional Conferences are APOCP’s contribution to the goal of cancer control throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The General Assembly meeting and conference is a biennial event in which the first one was held in 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. The ninth and most recent general assembly meeting was held in April 2018, in Jeju South Korea. The 10th general assembly is scheduled for April 2020 in Iran (it has been postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic).

The Regional Conferences are on-demand scientific conferences held in different parts of the Asia-Pacific region. So far, by Nov. 2020, APOCP has held 12 regional scientific conferences. The first regional conference was held in Izmir, Turkey in 2003 and the most recent (Nov. 2018) was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

APOCP never been a registered entity during its 20 years activity and still is not a registered organization (as it names itself an organization). In 2015, at the Galla dinner held at Tehran Milad tower, for the 9th APOCP regional meeting, the establishment of a sister organization focusing on cancer prevention activities in Central and Western part of Asia was agreed and later voted on by the APOCP's steering committee. The new entity was name West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP) and was considered as the APOCP's chapter in Western and central Part of Asia. The entity later was registered as a not-for-profit organization in Iran in 2017 (with registration number 466 and administrative ID number of 14009995354). WAOCP at present published the official journals of APOCP in addition its own mission on fighting cancer in West and central part of Asia.