Minutes
Christmas Letter 2009 from Johan Wennerberg, president of SSHNO
Last year I succeeded Prof Reidar Grenman as president for SSHNO and I’d like to thank Reidar very much for his excellent chairmanship. Together will the board and I continue his work in developing the Society according to the original idea from 1989; i.e. to provide a common scene for professionals interested in different aspects of Head and Neck Cancer, and to adapt this idea to the conditions of the 21 century.
Read the Christmas Letter from Johan Wennerberg (download in pdf).
Christmas Letter 2007 from Reidar Grenman, president of SSHNO
2007 was interesting year for European head and neck oncology. Read the Christmas card from Reidar Grénman, Scandinavian Society for Head and Neck Oncology (download in pdf).
Letter from Professor Grénman, president of SSHNO - december 2006
To the members of the Scandinavian Society for Head and Neck Oncology
Dear colleagues,
2006 is very closed to its end and finally we see some snow at least here in Finland. 2006 was the eighteenth year for the SSHNO with proximately 200 members from all Scandinavian countries. It was an interesting but regular year for the society. This is going to change in 2007. We had a very nice and successful meeting in Odensen with thyroid cancer, sentinel node biopsy and HNSCC, salivary gland cancer in Scandinavia reported by each country, treatment delay and tumor progression and unknown primary in the head and neck area as topics. For the first time we had a special program for nurses in ENT, which was very well received. On behalf of us all I want once more to thank Christian Godballe and Susanne Larsen and the whole organizing committee for the well arranged meeting and the very nice atmosphere they created during the meeting at Hotel Nyborg Strand. The abstract of the meeting have been published in Clinical Otolaryngology 2006:31 and they can also be found on the homepages www.sshno.dk.
In 2007 our meeting will be "International Meeting on Innovative Approaches in Head and Neck Oncology", which is held Barcelona Spain 22-24.2.2007. This will be a truly multidisciplinary meeting arranged among others by ESTRO, the European Head and Neck Society together with many other groups interested in HNSCC. The program can be found at www.estro.be. I’m sure that the program will be exiting and hope that as many as possible of our members will be able to participate. Due to this meeting we are not going to have a separate SSHNO meeting in 2007, but the following will be arranged in the spring 2008 in Finland. We will be later back with more information on this meeting, but it has already been decided, that one of the main topics will be sinonasal cancer. Hopefully we will get the experiences from the various Scandinavian countries. During the fifteen year period we have reviewed in Finland, we have been able to identify and collect well over 200 cases with this fairly rare disease entity.
We are experiencing in Europe a time period where national and specialty boundaries are getting weaker and I’m convinced that similar occasions like the Barcelona meeting will be repeated on regular intervals. The movement of colleagues from country to country has increased and I’m sure that this will continue. The UEMS ENT Section is working hard to create European subspecialty programs, which will increase these activities. I’m sure that these changes will improve the education, knowledge and CPD to the best of our patients.
I take this opportunity to wish you all a Peaceful and Merry Christmas with your family and relatives and a Happy and Prosperous New Year in 2007. Hopefully we all will get a white Christmas.
Reidar Grénman
Scandinavian Society for Head and Neck Oncology,
Chairman
Turku 2008
Nyborg 2006
Abstracts from Annual Meeting 2006.
Presidential Annual Report for 2005.
Göteborg 2005
Abstracts from Annual Meeting 2005.
General assembly 2005.
Presidential Annual Report for 2004.