# Armenian Psycho-Oncology Association

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## TL;DR

Armenia's society for professionals who give emotional and psychological support to people with cancer; it trains and connects them rather than seeing patients itself.

## Summary

The Armenian Psycho-Oncology Association is Armenia's member of the IPOS Federation. Its IPOS country page gives 2016 as its founding year and 2020 as the year it joined IPOS, and describes a membership made up mostly of psychologists (73.4 per cent), with physicians, social workers, nurses, palliative medicine specialists, psychiatrists and human rights defenders. It runs a newsletter and an email list and holds no conference or journal of its own.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: APOA
- Tags: professional-society
- City: Yerevan, AM
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://apoa.am/

## Sources

- IPOS Federation country page: https://ipos-society.org/federation/armenia

## Connected records

- technologies: [Psycho-oncology and distress screening](https://onco.cc/technologies/psycho-oncology/)
- institutions: [International Psycho-Oncology Society](https://onco.cc/institutions/ipos/)

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