About KCA

Establishment of Korean Cancer Association (KCA)

‘Korean Cancer Research Association’ was established in November 1958 and it was renamed as the ‘Korean Cancer Association’ in June 1974.


Objective and Activities

The association is destined to make a contribution on the progress and improvement of oncology with the purpose of strengthening the relationship between association members.


  1. To develop the oncology
  2. Opening of Annual meeting with International Conference and Fall Symposium
  3. Cancer Research and Treatment (CRT) is indexed/tracked/covered by SCI, Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, KoreaMed, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), SCOPUS, KoMCI, and Google Scholar.
  4. To support internal and external scientific activities of members
  5. Cooperation with other related societies

Membership

  1. 2,400 members from 144 Institutes or Hospitals in Korea
  2. Basic and clinical oncologists

International Organizations that KCA participates as a member

  1. Asian Oncology Society (AOS)
  2. The International Union against Cancer. Union International Centre le Cancer (UICC)

International Conference by KCA

  1. 2nd International Congress of the Asian Oncology Society (AOS 2022) June 16~18, 2022
  2. 24th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference, June 22~24, 2017
  3. 10th Asia Clinical Oncology Society, June 13~15, 2012
  4. 4th Asia Pacific Lung Cancer Conference, December 2~4, 2010
  5. 12th World Lung Cancer, September 2~6, 2007
  6. 18th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference (APCC), September 7~9, 2005
  7. 6th Asia Clinical Oncology Society (ACOS), November 17~19, 2003
  8. AACR International Conference Seoul 2001,
    Co-organized by AACR and KCA, September 10~14, 2001
  9. 8th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference (APCC), September 14~19, 1987

    10. AACR-KCA Joint Conference/Workshop

    1. 2023 AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Cancer, November 15~17, 2023
    2. 2nd AACR-KCA Joint Workshop on Precision Medicine in Cancer, November 10~11, 2022
    3. 2nd AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Solid Tumors, November 11~12, 2021
    4. AACR-KCA Joint Workshop on Precision Medicine, November 14~15, 2019
    5. AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Solid Tumors, November 15~17, 2018