Global Health programs are key goals of many internationally oriented Health Institutes and Organizations, and within such approach a Global Oncology program will become a major, crucial objective.

Infectious diseases are in general under control (with some emerging and re-emerging episode), life expectancy is globally increasing, and incidence as well as disease-burden of cancers (associated or not to infectious agents) will be inevitably rising. We need to develop the new clinical oncology of tomorrow and to prepare the next generation of oncologists. The aims of the section and the call for the papers is currently highlighted at the BioMed Central Blog