NUOC NORTHWEST ONCO X 2026

From Early Life to End of Life; Exploring the Unexplored

ONCO X 2026 builds on the success of Moonshot 2025, exploring often overlooked areas of cancer care from early life to end of life. With added emphasis on paediatric and palliative perspectives, the conference brings together student societies across specialties allied with oncology including surgery, radiology, and pathology fostering collaboration and dialogue across the multidisciplinary team

Where is it?

Liverpool Guild of Students

Who can attend?

The conference is primarily aimed at medical students of all years, but is open to attend by all undergraduate students, recent graduates and doctors.

A ticket (£6) will give you access to the full day of events, including keynote lectures from cancer experts across the region, interactive workshops to explore various aspects of the Oncology multi-disciplinary team, research poster sessions, and networking opportunities. This ticket includes lunch.

£1 from all ticket sales will be a direct donation to Northwest Cancer Research, who we are happy to be supporting through this conference

Why Onco X?

The name Onco X was derived from Cancer X, the follow-up to the Project Moonshot initiative. Moonshot was the name of the American government's

initiative and goal to propel progress in cancer research and reduce cancer deaths by 50% through fostering collaboration amongst scientists, doctors and patients globally.

Abstracts

All those interested in presenting abstracts at the conference are invited to submit their work to the Committee for review. Any submissions will be anonymized prior to receipt by the committee and scored according to relevance, originality, scientific content, overall clarity and impact. The highest scoring abstracts will be invited to give a 5-minute presentation to the congress; all other submissions will be offered to present as a poster. There will be a prize for the winning presentation, and certificates for all presenters. This conference is run by students, for students; please only submit if you are still within your university studies (this includes intercalating students). We welcome relevant submissions from students across all components of the Oncology MDT; Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Radiology, etc. Unfortunately we will not be accepting submissions from MB-PhD students.

Abstract instructions: Maximum word count: 350 words. Any submissions in excess will automatically be rejected.