When we decided to organize the first Sarajevo Winter Oncology Conference 7 years ago, we were driven by the desire to build new bridges of cooperation and friendship among oncologists in the region. We have believed that only through the exchange of ideas and experiences, adopting new knowledge and making joint projects, we can progress and provide our patients with better treatment. With the help of our friends from pharmaceutical companies who, like us, recognized the importance of cooperation, every year the conference became of better quality.

The pandemic has changed the way we live, think and finally the way we care for our patients. Accepting the “new normal”, we are organizing our Conference on the web platform for the second time. We are confident that the quality of the program we plan for this SWOC will succeed in overcoming the fact that we are unable to provide what the SWOC was made for and what it was known for.

The virtual has won the real, for now. SWOC resembles the city after which it was named – adaptable and invincible. We move on.

Waiting for better times, I wish you successful work.

Professor Semir Bešlija, MD, PhD

President of the Association of oncologists in Bosnia and Herzegovina