[Kyushu Promotion Plan for the Platform of Human Resource Development for Cancer]

While it is necessary to provide a detailed cancer treatment according to patient's life stages which are childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, and senior years, there is shortage of human resources who can meet these needs because of few opportunities to train in clinical experience including rare cancers. In addition, since Kyushu has a lot of remote islands and remote areas, it is also important to take measures against elderly cancer patients in such places. On the other hand, the practical application of cancer genomic medicine is accelerating in Japan, however, there is an overwhelming shortage of medical staff who can appropriately apply genomic medicine clinically and who can contribute to the research development of this field. The purpose of"Kyushu Promotion Plan for the Platform of Human Resource Development for Cancer"is to promote the growth of the medical staff specialized for cancer genomic medicine, adolescent and young adult oncology, rare cancers, and measure for cancer depending on the patient's life stage. This plan is consisted with ten universities in Kyushu and we have carried out a variety of events along with these themes above by collaborating with each other for 5 years. These events include lectures, conferences, presentation of their researches, training at the medical center abroad or isolated island, the support system for trainees to get the specialized license for oncologist in Japan. We have run these events successfully and the response from the trainees belonging to this plan was satisfactory. I have confidence that the number of medical staffs who have learned cancer genomic medicine and the cancer treatments depending on the patient's life stage has increased through this project, and they will play an important role as the professional medical staff in the future. We are planning to continue these events even after the end of this plan to keep the number and quality of professional medical staff for cancer.