Founding of “The IBTA”
The International Brain Tumour Alliance (IBTA) was established in May 2005, the outcome of a multi-stakeholder meeting and agreement at the World Federation of Neuro Oncology conference held in Edinburgh, UK. Today, the IBTA reaches out to people in 109 countries whose lives have been touched by a brain tumor. The mission is to advocate for the best treatments, information, support and quality of life for brain tumour patients, offering them, their families and carers hope – wherever they live in the world.
Since 2008, The IBTA has been represented at almost every EANO conference, enriching the work of EANO as an important part of our network, at EANO in Maastricht in 2010, at EANO in Marseille in 2012, at EANO in Turin in 2014 (in the attached photo I can be seen with other Italian brain tumour patient representatives), in Mannheim-Heidelberg in 2016 and exhibiting at EANO almost every year thereafter.
