Information", the organization sponsors and supports research projects to improve prevention, diagnosis, therapy, after-care and self-help.

It helps to improve the equipment and personnel in hospitals and to remedy shortages and emergencies in institutions for therapy, research and rehabilitation.

President of the organization since 2011 is Fritz Pleitgen, author and former leading German correspondent (ARD and WDR) He is elected for five years.

An additional office is in the German capital Berlin, in order to keep contacts to the government administration and the Parliament.

Both leading institutions are bringing their experts and expertise, along with many other relevant specialists in this multifaceted and complex field of oncological patient care, to the conference.

The event is the largest and oldest congress in Europe, covering cancer diagnostics and therapy in Germany.

The Congress program focuses on the three substantial challenges that currently preoccupy cancer medicine: enhancing interdisciplinarity, rapid integration and financing of innovations, and increasing individualization of therapy decisions after molecular-genetic diagnostics.