Prof Wim van Harten, chairmen of the OECI, talks to ecancer about the first year of the EurocanPlatform project at the European Forum on Oncology in Berlin, May 2012.

In the EurocanPlatfrom project, the Organisation of the European Cancer Institute is defining the role of the centre as an organisation to do optimal research in translational medicine. In addition, the OECI’s involvement in the EurocanPlatform Work Package aimed at drafting a system to designates excellence in comprehensive cancer centre and reaching how this should look. Testing on this plan is to being in the next year.