2013 Naaccr Annual Conference Student Award Winner - Tong zhu

My name's Tong Zhu and I'm a PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan and actually I work at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency too and this is my third time to come to the NAACCR Annual Conference. The NAACCR Annual Conference means a lot to me and I really like it for several reasons: The plenary sessions - they give us an overview and general direction for the cancer research; all the specific topics such as like cancer data quality and cancer control surveillance and analytic epidemiology and statistical methods. In all these, the knowledge really apply my own study and my own research and it's not only for the knowledge you learn from the conference and the sections at the same time you can know many peoples and they work at the area of the cancer you are interested and this really help me for my own study and help me to plan my future research. At the same time you can build up a great collaboration for research for the futures. At the same time, I really want to thank you for the NAACCR, and the committee - they give me the opportunity to do the oral presentation here and I also like to thank the award committee for overview my presentation. The award is unexpected and encourage me and really motivate me to do the future research. And I really want to say it's a very, very good opportunity for all the graduate students who come to this meeting and is very grateful. Thank you.