Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft e.v. - DKG

The German Cancer Society (DKG) is the largest scientific and specialist oncology company in Germany with headquarters in Berlin. We are engaged in cancer care on the basis of evidence-based medicine, interdisciplinarity and consequent quality standards. The DKG is a public health institution to use its influence to the benefit of cancer patients in the committee work with politicians, professional associations, service and product providers in the healthcare market as well as for patient claims. Our special fields are the development of clinical practice guidelines and coordination of guidelines in the framework of the German Guideline Program of Oncology (GGPO), the certification of oncological care institutions and the improvement of information given to patients. In total, DKG has about 7000 members, organized in 24 working groups. Since cancers need to be cross-treated and researched, there members are not only medical doctors of all sections, but also basic researchers, medical technical assistants, nurses, psychologists and other professionals who work on cancer. Even companies such as researching pharmaceutical industry, scientific books and health insurance companies are important partners in addressing the common task. Since 1962, DKG has been full UICC member.