As I take over as President Of the Association of Gynaecologic Oncologists of India,I feel a sense of quiet triumph that we have grown from a couple of hundred to a 1700 strong strength. It gives me great pleasure to discern the tremendous interest and enthusiasm amongst our younger colleagues in engaging in this difficult subspecialty which requires a lot of strength,dedication and resilience.

The ever changing landscape of staging and treatment guidelines for the various gynecological cancers certainly prove to be a challenge in the optimal management of all our cases. But together we shall win as they say and I would like to encourage each one of you to work hard to be able to achieve the best for our patients.

The widespread pan India membership of our association(AGOI) should help us to interact better and learn from each other more and more. The various state chapters and the young Gynae -Oncologist sessions all are able to contribute hugely towards this.

I would encourage all our members to hold seminars and CMEs and participate in as many conferences both at home and abroad. It widens your perspective, opens new thought processes and improves learning .There is nothing more delightful than knowing that,that which you are doing is done the world over, your statistics and results are comparable to the best in the world. Lastly, I would encourage all our members to publish and publish true. Every research and work is of value only if strengthened by statistics, which also provides introspections and audit of our work.The need of the hour is to be able to do well planned multicentre trials and able to assess our own data and build our own guidelines or at least supplement the ones already existing, adding relevance to the Indian population.

I wish you all the very best, while looking forward to some exciting innovation from our younger colleagues and the sure foot, steadfastness of others, good luck!