2018 conferences

• American College for Sports Medicine annual meeting
  29 May–2 June
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
  AICR will present a poster on physical activity and cancer. CUP Panel Member Prof Anne McTeirnan is a keynote speaker giving a lecture on physical activity for cancer prevention and treatment: state of the evidence.
• American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting
  1–5 June 
  Chicago, Illinois, US
  Prof Christine Sardo Molmenti will present on the main findings from Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer: a Global Perspective (the Third Expert Report) and CUP evidence on alcohol and cancer.
• International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity annual meeting
  3–6 June
  Hong Kong
  World Cancer Research Fund International will host a symposium to present the Third Expert Report main findings and Cancer Prevention Recommendations with our three Hong Kong ambassadors and Prof Hilary Powers, Deputy Chair of our CUP Panel. Follow updates on Twitter #ISBNPA2018
• American Society for Nutrition: Nutrition 2018
  9–12 June
  Boston, US
  AICR will host a symposium about our Third Expert Report presented by CUP Panel Members Prof Steve Clinton, Prof Ed Giovannucci and Prof Steve Hursting. Prof Elio Riboli will also be speaking on the CUP methodology.
• Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research
  30 June–3 July
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  World Cancer Research Fund International and Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds will have a joint stand and have submitted two proposals on the Third Expert Report. 
• World Cancer Congress
  1–4 October
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  World Cancer Research Fund International will be presenting five sessions in partnership with other organisations. Dr Kate Allen, Louise Meincke, Bryony Sinclair, Dr Rachel Thompson, one of our grant holders, Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram, and one of our Academy Fellows, Dr Francis Zotor, will have speaking slots covering the main findings of the Third Expert Report, the policy implications, the capacity building on the area of nutrition and cancer, as well as the need to work collaboratively with other cancer societies. Come and find us at our two side events led by our science and policy teams.
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics's 2018 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo
  20–23 October
  Washington, DC
  AICR have submitted an abstract for a full symposium on our Third Expert Report.
• Congreso Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición (Congress of the Federation of Latin American Nutrition Societies)
  11–15 November
  Guadalajara, Mexico
  World Cancer Research Fund International and AICR have submitted a proposal on the Third Expert Report and policy implications in Latin America.
• San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
  5–9 December
  San Antonio, Texas, US
  AICR will be involved in this symposium.

2017 conferences

Dr Anna Diaz Font and Ifigeneia Bourgiezi from WCRF International attended the Royal Society of Medicine conference on diet, nutrition and the changing face of cancer survivorship in London, UK, on 5–6 December. Read their blog here.  

At the National Cancer Research Institute annual conference in Liverpool, UK, on 5–8 November, Prof Martin Wiseman, Prof Paul Aveyard, Dr Marc Gunter and Dr Jyotsna Vohra hosted a joint session with Cancer Research UK on the primary prevention of cancer: the role of diet, nutrition and physical activity.

Prof Martin Wiseman, Prof Alan Jackson and Prof Juan Rivera held a symposium at the International Congress of Nutrition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 15–20 October. The symposium discussed diet, nutrition, physical activity and cancer, and the upcoming update to World Cancer Research Fund International's Continuous Update Project.