Date: 25 - 28 October, 2008
Owner: Kenes International
6.45 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Program Highlights
To stimulate learning and interchange, the meeting will include various formats for instruction and sharing:
- Invited guest lecturers
- Multidisciplinary panel presentations
- Oral paper presentations
- Oral posters
- Meet the professor sessions
- Interactive discussions, including tumor boards and debates
- Video viewing sessions
Highlighted Topics:
- Half day unopposed focused course on cervical cancer: covering screening, vaccination, staging controversies, therapeutic advances, quality of life and symptom management, resource allocation, and research directions
- State of the art summary sessions in cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer
- Management of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
- Ovarian cancer - familial/genetic risk assessment, and risk reduction
- Breast cancer - screening, familial risk assessment, and risk reduction
- Pathology and management of rare gynecologic tumors
- Advances in surgical techniques, including robotics
- Advances in imaging, including metabolic imaging as a predictor/early assessment for response to therapy
- Emerging biologics and drug discovery
- Promising basic/translational science developments
- Symptom management, palliation, and quality of life
- 'Mini-symposiums' on Pathology, Nursing, and Fellows
|