Gynaecological oncology in Poland

The control of gynaecological cancers in Poland has developed from three factors: 1) the organization of the Committee for Cancer Research and Control in 1906, which considered these activities as extremely important; 2) the personal commitment of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and 3) the opportunity to train Polish physicians at the Foundation Curie in Paris after 1921, enhanced by the support of Head of the Fondation Professor Claude Regaud in introducing the "Paris Method" as a therapy against cervical cancer, to be provided for patients at the Radium Institute in Warsaw. The separation of gynaecological oncology as an independent branch of oncology occurred in Poland in 1951 when the Gynaecological Oncology Departments were opened first at the Institute of Oncology and later in other oncological clinics. The establishment of the Polish Gynaecological Society in 1992 was the next milestone.