International Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative Mission Statement
	To integrate and support basic scientific and clinical research to address the special needs of transplant recipients with skin cancer in order to improve quality of care.
	To educate patients, scientists, primary care doctors and specialist physicians on the unique needs and clinical care issues in the transplant patients.
	Fact: Skin cancer is the most common cancer affecting solid organ transplant recipients, affecting up to 70 percent of patients within 20 years, and is the result of intense immunosuppressive regimens.

Learn more through the AT-RISC* Alliance
*AT-RISC: After Transplantation - Reduce Incidence of Skin Cancer
http://www.at-risc.org

A limited amount of patient information brochures are available. Visit the AT-RISC Web site to preview the brochure and email your name, type of involvement with transplant patients, address and FedEx or UPS number to info@itscc.org to order.

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SAVE THE DATE: ITSCC/SCOP RETREAT September 25-28, 2008 Essex, MA

Dear ITSCC members: This Fall, ITSCC will host our first “sleep-over” meeting since Wonowok. We will join with selected SCOP members at the Essex Conference and Retreat Center (ECCR) located on Cape Ann at Boston’s North Shore, just 45 minutes from downtown Boston, Massachusetts and 30 minutes from southern New Hampshire. The private, beautifully landscaped property is set on 18 wooded acres, less than a mile from the ocean.

Save the date and join us for what promises to be a very interesting and productive meeting. As in past years, attendance will be limited due to the small size of the conference center. There will be a total of 40 slots, 15 of which will go to SCOP members. Sleeping rooms will be shared. Attendance by ITSCC members will be via application. All attendees will participate in work groups of their choice. Preference will be given to members who will give presentations, especially of their on-going work. Contact Kim Schardin (kschardin@itscc.org) for more details.

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Note: User name is first initial last name (i.e. Mary Jones would be mjones) and your birth date formatted as mmddyy (July 4, 1976 would be 071476) Contact Kim Schardin, ITSCC Executive Administrator, for additional assistance

Learn more about our sister organization in Europe. You may also access the site by clicking on the SCOP Network graphical link on the left column of this page.