Mission

The mission of SLACOM is to improve cancer care and prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The vision for  the development of a Latin-American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology is of a future where cancer is prevented, detected early and cured or managed successfully  for patients  all over the world and with standards  of global oncology care.

The long term goal is to build a strong Latin American professional Medical Oncology Society with individual members from all the countries within the region. SLACOM would be the leading resource on cancer in the region and partner for interactions with other International Organizations.

We, the organizers of SLACOM, believe that medical oncologists are the principal coordinators of the care of patients with malignant diseases. Inherent in this responsibility is the need for a high level of professionalism.

Cancer care in today’s world  is not limited by borders, countries or regions of the world. The fight must be global and should strive toward a coordinated effort with the objective being a similar standard of care for patients in whatever part of the world they reside. Currently, there exists in Latin America a diversity of requirements to earn the title of medical oncologist, a wide spectrum of infrastructure from countries with limited resources to those with the most modern of resources, and lastly a very high incidence of disease. There is a tremendous need for the development of consistency in cancer education, research, cancer care and information dissemination.
It is our strong conviction that the development of a regional Society, comprised of medical oncologists from different countries in the region, would have a pivotal role in the education and training of its members, and through them, setting standards of care that would benefit cancer patients in the region.