Table 1. International meetings of AORTIC on cancer in Africa.

Date	Host site	No. of participants	No. of nations participating	No. of posters presented	No. of abstracts submitted	No. of oral presentations
22–23 July 1983	Lome, Togo	24	14a	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*
11 November 1985	Brazzaville, Congob	61	?	0	0	?
30 October–3 November 1989	Kinshasa, Zaire	≈100	28	0	80	70
1990–2000	Years of inactivity/dormancy
6–10 October 2003	Accra, Ghana	?	?	?	?	?
14–16 November 2005	Dakar, Senegal	200	32	?	165	4**
25–28 October 2007	Cape Town, South Africa	400	46	116	141	18
11–14 November 2009	Dar Es Saalam	600	50	118	272	22
30 November–3 December 2011	Cairo, Egypt	300	51	242	433	53
21–24 November 2013	Durban, South Africa	900	70	200	450	72***

^*N/A—Business meeting.

^**Four keynote presentations.

^***Including six plenary presentations.

^aIncluding Benin, Cameroun, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sweden, United State of America, Uganda, and Upper Volta (now renamed Burkina Faso).

^bWorld Health Organisation Regional Headquarters for Africa.