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Mission

Enable qualified members primarily interested in the care of patients with malignant GU diseases to meet for the purpose of discussion, development and implementation of ideas to improve care.

Milestones

  • 1984
  • SUO started by founding members
  • 1986
  • SUO Spring Meeting at Annual AUA Meeting begins
  • 1988
  • Annual Reception and Banquet begins at AUA
  • 1994
  • The Whitmore Lectureship is established, the 1st of many SUO awards and lectureships
  • 2000
  • SUO Winter Meeting at NIH begins
  • 2000
  • The journal Urologic Oncology becomes official SUO journal
  • 2000
  • SUO Accredited Fellowship are formalized
  • 2004
  • The Young Urologic Oncologists Section (YUO) is created
  • 2007
  • The Oncology Knowledge Assessment Test (OKAT) exam begins
  • 2008
  • The Clinical Trial Consortium is founded
  • 2014
  • The SUO celebrates its 30th anniversary
  • 2014
  • The SUO/UCF Research Scholarship Program begins
  • 2016
  • The SUO/EAU Exchange Lectureship begins
  • 2017
  • The SUO/EAU Exchange Scholarship Program begins
  • 2018
  • The SUO Visiting Professor Program begins
  • 2019
  • Women in Urologic Oncology formally recognized as an official subsection

Primary Objectives

  • Stimulate research and teaching in urologic oncology
  • Disseminate the principles of urologic oncology to medical profession at large
  • Bring urologists into a Society whose work is entirely/principally in malignant disease
  • Being the most qualified organization on matters of urologic oncology
  • Standardize fellowship training in urologic oncology