Neuro-Oncology Societies Across Asia
The regional network was built from national societies, each rooted in its own country's medical community. This directory points to their official websites for readers who want authoritative, up-to-date information.
National and regional societies
- Japan — Japan Society of Neuro-Oncology, one of the field's longest-established national bodies and a founding participant in the regional meetings.
- Korea — Korean Society for Neuro-Oncology (ksno.or.kr).
- China — Chinese Society of Neuro-Oncology.
- Taiwan — Taiwan Society for Neuro-Oncology.
- Turkey — Nöroonkoloji Derneği (the Turkish neuro-oncology society).
- India — Indian Society of Neuro-Oncology (isno.in).
- Australia — Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology, known as COGNO (cogno.org.au).
- Hong Kong — Hong Kong Neuro-Oncology Society.
- Indonesia — Indonesian Society of Neuro-Oncology.
- Philippines — Philippine Society for Neuro-Oncology.
How the network came together
The founding societies — from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Turkey — created the first regional meeting in 2002. Over the following decade, societies from India, Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Indonesia joined, each bringing its own clinical traditions and research strengths. The collective effect was a richer, more representative picture of brain-tumour care across very different health systems.
Why national societies matter
National societies do the unglamorous, essential work of a specialty: running training programmes, setting local guidelines, organizing tumour boards, and connecting isolated clinicians. Regional cooperation amplifies that work without replacing it.
Using this directory
Organizations move, merge, and occasionally rename themselves, so treat the links here as starting points rather than permanent addresses. If a link no longer resolves, searching for the society by its full name is usually the quickest way to find its current home. We deliberately list official society websites rather than social-media pages, because official sites are more stable and carry authoritative information about training, guidelines, and meetings. The diversity on display — from large, long-established societies to younger national groups — reflects how unevenly, but steadily, neuro-oncology capacity has grown across the region.
For the global organizations that sit alongside these national bodies, see our useful links, and for the journals that publish their research, see key publications.