Background

The United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group began in 1977 when a number of paediatricians who had been treating children with cancer joined together to form a group with the aims of improving the management of children with cancer and to advance the knowledge and study of childhood malignancy. From that small start, the Group has steadily expanded and now has over 500 members, working in 22 Paediatric Oncology Centres throughout the British Isles, and including about 60 corresponding members from other countries around the world. Membership of the Group is multidisciplinary and includes clinicians, pathologists, and representatives of other disciplines, epidemiologists and basic scientists. The Group's Constitution gives details of the various categories of membership.