Welcome to the Belgian Group of Digestive Oncology
The BGDO is an independent national group open to all physicians or researchers who have an interest in gastrointestinal oncology.
BGDO News
BGDO Annual Meeting - Saturday 12 January 2019 - Curative approach in oesophageal cancer and peritoneal carcinomatosis in 2019
Discover the program - Online registration is open
BGDO TRIALS presented at ESMO and ASCO-GI Results of the MAGNET, QOLINPAC and REACH-IN trials are communicated in international congresses
MAGNET and QOLINPAC are accepted as poster and poster discussion at the forthcoming ESMO, and REACH-IN is sent as abstract for presentation at ASCO-GI.
Letter to the Minister Maggy De Block - The BGDO gives its opinion
The BGDO board took the initiative to write a letter to the Minister. We have the will to be involved in the discussions of all aspects of digestive oncology, including the surgical aspects. Improvement of the quality of digestive oncology in Belgium is indeed one of the main raisons of our multidisciplinary group
BGDO Board Renewal | 2019 - 2021 According the bylaws of the BGDO, half of the board has to be renewed every 3 years. Six members of the board will resign this year, in order to make an overlap possible between the succeeding board for a three years mandate.
Interested to join the board? Complete the candidacy form and submit it before 9 December 2018
BGDO Digestive Oncology Course - Friday 26 & Saturday 27 April 2019
DNET Registry
The Digestive Neuroendocrine Tumor registry is a registry to collect epidemiological and medicinal data of patients suffering from digestive neuro-endocrine tumours via an electronic database.
cancertrials.be
The cancertrials.be website is an initiative of the Belgian Society for Medical Oncology (BSMO). The aim of the website is to provide Belgian oncologists swift access to information on trial opportunities for their patients, with the possibility to directly contact one of the sites where the trial is open.
Mission statement
The Belgian group of Digestive Oncology (BGDO) is an independent non-profit, scientific, association open to all physicians or researchers who have an interest in gastrointestinal oncology.
It was created in 2003 and counts experts from different specialities, who are involved in GI cancer therapy.
The aims of the BGDO are
- to improve the quality of care in GI oncology in a multidisciplinary way,
- to enhance and promote teaching in the field of GI oncology by meetings and symposia,
- to stimulate research in GI oncology
- to develop protocols and guidelines for the benefit of patients and medical care,
- to acitvely support and participate in national and international investigator driven clinical trails
For these purposes, the BGDO is collaborating with others national or international societies in order to work on common guidelines.