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 11 January 2020
We will mainly focus on pancreatic and biliary tract cancers, more specifically on perioperative strategies for pancreatic cancer and options in locally advanced tumors. We will also discuss the influence of genetic and molecular analyses on therapeutic strategies in metastatic setting.
Discover the program
Save the Date: FFCD & BGDO Digestive Oncology Intensive Course - Thursday 14 & Friday 15 May 2020 - Brussels
The program will cover all main aspects and topics in digestive oncology involving multidisciplinary approaches.
The BGDO is aware of the need to roll out a national advice on DPD screening. For the moment, several issues are still pending: capacity and turn around time for testing, as well as reimbursement issues. We have established an internal working group and are in close contact with representatives of RIZIV/INAMI, the belgian medical centers for human genetics, the clinical biologists and the BSMO. Information will follow through this portal.
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.
The BGDO has been recognized legally as Sponsor for non-commercial clinical trials,which is a huge step forward for the implementation of new trials, and the development of the BGDO as a valid and reliable partner with other collaborative groups.
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
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.