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2011 SCIENTIFIC AGENDA

 
 

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

12:30
Expert discussion (by invitation only): Adjuvant treatment of colon cancer
Scientific committee and selected experts Room 120-121

Session I: Selected abstracts I
Chairs: Mario Dicato, MD and Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD

15:00
Welcome and introduction: Congress Chairs and ESMO President
Mario Dicato, MD, Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, and David J. Kerr, MD, FRCP, FRCGP

15:05
Presentation of selected abstracts

Early tumor shrinkage and long-term outcome in metastatic colorectal cancer: Assessment of predictive utility across treatment arms in the CRYSTAL and OPUS studies
H. Piessevaux, et al., O-0015

Implications of variability in the frequency of pharmacogenetic genotypes between Asians and Caucasians for treatment outcomes in colorectal cancer
M. Loh, et al., O-0003

The TGF B (beta) R1 gene has a highly significant mutation frequency at several single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker sites in Caucasian patients with advanced colorectal cancer as compared to healthy controls
M. Pauly, et al., O-004

One-year follow-up data for catumaxomab as part of a multimodal approach in patients with primarily resectable gastric cancer
C. Schuhmacher, et al., O-0005

Subgroup analysis of patients with colorectal neuroendocrine tumors (NET) in the phase III RADIANT-2 study comparing everolimus plus octreotide LAR with placebo plus octreotide LAR
D. Castellano, et al., O-0006

Randomized phase II study (GATE study) of docetaxel plus oxaliplatin with or without fluorouracil or capectiabin in metastatic or locally recurrent gastric cancer
P. Rougier, et al.


Session II: Cancer of the pancreas and bile ducts
Chairs: Margaret A. Tempero, MD and Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD

16:00
Diagnostic challenges in pancreatic tumors
Thomas Seufferlein, MD, PhD

16:20
Can borderline resectable or non-resectable pancreatic cancer become resectable after a neoadjuvant treatment?
Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD

16:40
One year after FOLFIRINOX data for pancreatic cancer: How relevant is the data?
Margaret A. Tempero, MD

17:00
Cases of pancreatic cancer: Adjuvant, locally advanced, and metastatic disease
Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD and Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD

17:20
Presentation of selected abstracts

Improved 6-month survival rate in subjects with prostate stem cell antigen positive tumors in a global, randomized phase 2 trial comparing gemcitabine vs. gemcitabine + AGS-1C4D4 (ASP6182) in metastatic pancreatic cancer
M. Hidalgo, et al., O-0007

hENT1 and dCK expression predict benefit from gemcitabine after curative-intent resection in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
R. Marechal, et al., O-0008

Phase I/II Study with monotherapy of trabedersen (AP 12009): Encouraging survival results for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer
P. Kiessling, et al., O-0009

17:50
Molecular pathogenesis and new therapeutic targets in pancreatic cancer
Manuel Hidalgo, MD, PhD

18:10
New treatment options on the horizon in pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD

18:30
Surgery for bile duct cancer
Thomas Grüenberger, MD

19:00
Adjourn

CLOSED SESSION (by invitation only)
Parallel with Session II: Cancer of the pancreas and bile ducts

16:00
Strategy of national and international clinical trial groups

Presentation of colorectal cancer and GI cancers program/strategy
Rooms 120-121

19:30
Adjourn closed session

Thursday, 23 June 2011

CLOSED SESSION (by invitation only)
Parallel with Session III: Meet the expert concurrent presentations and Session IV: Cancer of the liver

8:00
How to go forward with translational research in GI cancer

Discussion on collaboration and strategy
Rooms 124-125

Session III: Meet the expert concurrent presentations

8:00
Anal cancer
Robert Glynne-Jones, MBBS, FRCR, FRCP
Rooms 118-119

Cholangiocarcinoma and gall bladder cancer
John Bridgewater, MD, PhD
Rooms 120-121

Supportive care: Management of anemia and emesis– guidelines
Mario Dicato, MD
Rooms 122-123

GIST
John R. Zalcberg, MD, PhD, FRACP
Rooms 127-128

Reading or interpreting the medical literature
Daniel G. Haller, MD
Rooms 129-130

New radiation techniques: Technical and clinical analysis Karin Haustermans, MD, PhD
Rooms 131-132

Session IV: Cancer of the liver
Chairs: Jordi Bruix, MD and Philippe Rougier, MD, PhD

9:00
Presentation of selected abstract

Use of antiviral therapy in surveillance: The impact on the outcome of hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma
S. Chan, et al., O-0010

9:10
Molecular changes occurring in pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Chris Verslype, MD, PhD

9:30
Treatment algorithm in HCC
Jordi Bruix, MD, PhD

9:50
New agents on the horizon in HCC
Andrew X. Zhu, MD, PhD

10:05
Keynote lecture 1: Liver transplantation in HCC
Vincenzo Mazzaferro, MD

10:30
Break and poster viewing (abstracts to be presented: clinical/basic non-CRC abstracts)

Session V: Rare tumors—Neuroendocrine tumors and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST)
Chairs: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD and John R. Zalcberg, MD, PhD, FRACP

11:00
What is new after imatinib for GIST?
John R. Zalcberg, MD, PhD, FRACP

11:15
Clinical and pathological classification of neuroendocrine tumor (NET)
Guido Rindi, MD, PhD

11:35
Medical treatment of NET
Philippe Ruszniewski, MD

11:55
Presentation of selected abstract

Everolimus improves progression-free survival (PFS) regardless of baseline chromogranin A (CgA) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) levels in patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) (RADIANT-3)
M. Pavel, et al., O-0011

12:10
NET tumor board
Guido Rindi, MD, PhD, Philippe Ruszniewski, MD and
Marianne Pavel, MD

12:30
Session adjourns

12:45
Concurrent luncheon symposia begin

14:15
Concurrent luncheon symposia adjourn

Session VI: Esophageal cancer
Chairs: Karin Haustermans, MD, PhD and Christophe Mariette, MD, PhD

14:30
Treatment of Barrett’s esophagus
Jacques J. Bergman, MD, PhD

14:50
Surgery for esophageal cancer: For which patients is the best treatment a single modality treatment?
Jan J. B. van Lanschot, MD, PhD

15:05
Should locally advanced gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) tumors be treated as esophageal cancer or as gastric cancer?

Pro gastric cancer
David Ilson, MD, PhD

Pro esophageal cancer
Karin Haustermans, MD, PhD

15:35
Tumor board: Discussion and cases
David Ilson, MD, PhD, Karin Haustermans, MD, PhD and Christophe Mariette, MD, PhD

15:55
Travel Grant Award Ceremony

16:00
Break and poster viewing (abstracts to be presented: clinical/basic non-CRC abstracts)

Session VII: Gastric cancer
Chairs: Manish A. Shah, MD and Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD

16:30
Carcinogenesis in gastric cancer
Fatima Carneiro, MD, PhD

16:50
What is optimal surgery for gastric cancer?
Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, MD, PhD

17:10
Presentation of selected abstract

Prognostic and predictive factors of the response to adjuvant chemotherapy in resectable gastric cancer: Results from the gastric meta-analysis
S. Morita, et al., O-0012

17:20 Should all patients be treated with adjuvant and/or neoadjuvant treatment?
Roberto Labianca, MD

17:35
What is the reference cytotoxic regimen in advanced gastric cancer?
Andrés Cervantes, MD, PhD

17:50
Presentation of selected abstract

Surrogate endpoints for overall survival in resectable gastric cancer and in advanced gastric carcinoma: Analysis of individual data from the gastric collaboration
P. Rougier, et al., O-0013

18:05
What is the difference in gastric cancer between Asia and the West?
Yoon-Koo Kang, MD, PhD

18:20
What is the optimal algorithm for anti-HER2 targeted therapy in advanced gastric cancer?
Florian Lordick, MD, PhD

18:30
Which new targets are important in gastric cancer?
Manish A. Shah, MD

18:45
Adjourn

Friday, 24 June 2011

Session VIII: Meet the expert concurrent presentations
Parallel with Session IX: Presentation of selected abstracts and Session X: Clinical trials for GI oncologists

8:00
Peritoneal metastases and mesothelioma
Pompiliu Piso, MD
Rooms 118-119

Carcinoma of unknown origin
Nicholas A. Pavlidis, MD, PhD
Rooms 120-121

ESSO session on surgery: Liver resection and ablation techniques
Graeme J. Poston, MD
Rooms 122-123

ESDO session: The new European guidelines on colorectal cancer screening
Lawrence von Karsa, MD
Rooms 129-130

Session IX: Selected abstracts II
Chair: Fortunato Ciardiello, MD, PhD
Parallel with Session VIII: Meet the expert concurrent presentations and Session X: Clinical trials for GI oncologists

8:00
Presentation of selected abstracts

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT) with or without panitumumab (Pan) in patients with K-RAS unmutated, locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC): A randomized multicenter phase II trial (SAKK 41/07)
R. Winterhalder, et al., O-0014

Assessment of tumor genotypes in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC): Mutations beyond KRAS codons 12 and 13 as predictive biomarkers of response to panitumumab (pmab) in a randomized, phase 3 study
M. Peeters, et al., O-0016

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 study of AMG 386 plus FOLFIRI in patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal carcinoma (mCRC)
M. Peeters, et al., O-0017

Final results of a multicentre phase II trial assessing sorafenib in combination with irinotecan as 2nd or later-line treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with KRAS mutated tumors (MT) (NEXIRI)
E. Samalin, et al., O-0001

Efficacy of chemotherapy + cetuximab according to metastatic site in KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer: Analysis of CRYSTAL and OPUS studies
C. Köhne, et al., O-0002


Session X: Clinical trials for GI oncologists - Trials and endpoints in GI cancer
Chair: Alberto Sobrero, MD and Aimery de Gramont, MD

Rooms 131-132
Parallel with Session VIII: Meet the expert concurrent presentations and Session IX: Presentation of selected abstracts

8:00 Is
DFS, RR or survival the best endpoint in colorectal cancer?

Outcome of ARCAD working group
Marc Buyse, ScD

Which difference should we target?
Alberto Sobrero, MD

Pharmacodynamic endpoints
Josep Tabernero, MD, PhD

9:30
Adjourn session

Session XI: Special nurses’ symposium—EONS symposium: Management of patients with GI cancer
Chairs: Jose San Francisco, RN and
Liesbeth Lemmens, MSc, RN

Rooms 127-128
Parallel with Session XII: ESMO session: Focus on the young medical oncologist

9:00
Optimizing the adherence for targeted therapies
Alessandra Milani, MSc

9:25
Management of side effects associated with targeted therapy
Liesbeth Lemmens, MSc, RN

9:50
Problems of life-style and sexuality and care of stoma/ostomy
Carmen Fuertes Ran, RN and
Maria Dolores Ruiz-Fernandez, RN

10:15
Discussion

10:30
Break and poster viewing (abstracts to be presented: clinical/basic CRC abstracts)

Session XII: ESMO session: Focus on the young medical oncologist
Chairs: David J. Kerr, MD, FRCP, FRCGP and Roberto Labianca, MD

Parallel with Session XI: Special nurses’ symposium— EONS symposium: Nursing aspects on management of side effects of targeted agents

9:00
Towards personalization in gastrointestinal cancer
David J. Kerr, MD, FRCP, FRCGP

9:20
Markers for angiogenesis inhibitors: Lessons learned from the past
Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP

9:40
Oncogenic mutations and targeted therapies in colon cancer – Have we made progress?
Alberto Bardelli, PhD

10:00
Keynote lecture 2: The ubiquitin proteolytic system and human diseases
Aaron Ciechanover, MD, PhD, Nobel Prize Winner

10:30
Break and poster viewing (abstracts to be presented: clinical/basic CRC abstracts)

Session XIII: Multimodality therapy for rectal cancer
Chair: Vicenzo Valentini, MD

11:00
Imaging in rectal cancer: What is mandatory for optimal staging?
Regina G. H. Beets-Tan, MD, PhD

11:20
Organ sparing-surgery in rectal cancer: How important is it? How can we progress with it?
Andre D’Hoore, MD, PhD

11:35
Is local resection adequate for early rectal tumor (TEMS)?
Emanuele Lezoche, MD

11:50
Presentation of selected abstracts

Preoperative chemoradiotherapy with 5FU/ leucovorin for T3-4 rectal cancer do not increase overall survival in a pooled analysis of EORTC 22921 and FFCD 9203 trials: Surrogacy in question
F. Bonnetain, et al., O-0018

Preoperative chemoradiotherapy and postoperative chemotherapy with 5-FU and oxaliplatin versus 5-FU alone in locally advanced rectal cancer: First results of CAO/ARO/AIO-04
C. Rödel, et al.

12:10
Which neoadjuvant treatment to use in rectal cancer?
Claus Rödel, MD

12:25
A glimpse into the future of new radiation techniques for rectal cancer
Vicenzo Valentini, MD

12:40
Is the strategy in the elderly with rectal cancer different?
Robert Glynne-Jones MBBS, FRCR, FRCP

13:00
Adjourn session

13:15
Concurrent luncheon symposia begin

14:45
Concurrent luncheon symposia adjourn

Session XIV: Highlights in cancer
Chair: Mario Dicato, MD

15:00
Keynote lecture 3: Angiogenesis in colorectal cancer
Lee M. Ellis, MD

15:30
Keynote lecture 4: Statistical interpretation in clinical trials
Marc Buyse, ScD

16:00
Keynote lecture 5: Priorities for clinical research in GI cancer
Daniel G. Haller, MD

16:30
Break and poster viewing (abstracts to be presented: clinical/basic CRC abstracts)

Session XV: Adjuvant treatment of colon cancer
Chairs: Hans-Joachim Schmoll, MD, PhD and John L. Marshall, MD

17:00
What is the role and impact of molecular markers on treatment decisions in the adjuvant setting?
Arnaud D. Roth, MD

17:20
Presentation of selected abstract Stroma production within the primary tumor correlates with poor survival for stage I-II colon cancer patients
W. Mesker, et al., O-0019

17:30
Is gene signature based selection ready for clinical use?
David J. Kerr, MD, FRCP, FRCGP

17:45
How to treat a patient with stage III colon cancer in 2011
Aimery de Gramont, MD

18:05
Why did the antibodies fail in the adjuvant treatment?
Heinz-Joseph Lenz, MD, FACP

Session XVI: Poster discussion session

18:25
Poster discussion session I on colon cancer
Alberto Sobrero, MD

18:35
Poster discussion session II on colon cancer
Nadir Arber, MD, MSc, MHA

18:45
Poster discussion on non-colorectal cancer
Julien Taieb, MD, PhD

18:55
Adjourn

Saturday, 25 June 2011

Session XVII: Screening and imaging of colon cancer
Chairs: Nadir Arber, MD, MSc, MHA and
Wolff Schmiegel, MD, PhD

8:30
Screening for colon cancer: Where are we now?
Wolff Schmiegel, MD, PhD

8:50
Colorectal cancer chemoprevention: Ready for practice?
Nadir Arber, MD, MSc, MHA

9:10
Functional imaging for colon cancer Is early response prediction relevant for the clinician?
Dirk Arnold, MD

9:40
Break

Session XVIII: Metastatic colorectal cancer
Chairs: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD and Philippe Rougier, MD

10:10
What is the optimal treatment algorithm for metastatic CRC?
Eduardo Diaz-Rubio, MD

10:25
How long to treat metastatic CRC?
Hans-Joachim Schmoll, MD, PhD

10:40
Presentation of selected abstracts

Amphiregulin and epiregulin expression predicts for treatment efficacy in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients treated with cetuximab plus CAPIRI or CAPOX. Analysis of the German AIO CRC Group Trial: KRK-0204
S. Stintzing, et al., O-0020

KRAS mutations and outcome in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with firstline chemotherapy with or without cetuximab
S. Tejpar, et al., O-0021

11:05
Molecular markers beyond KRAS for anti-EGFR and markers for angiogenesis inhibitors
Fortunato Ciardiello, MD, PhD

11:25
Presentation of selected abstracts

Intravenous (IV) aflibercept versus placebo in combination with irinotecan/5-FU (FOLFIRI) for second-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC): Results of a multinational phase III trial (EFC10262-VELOUR)
E. Van Cutsem, et al., O-0024

Primary analysis and biomarker evaluation: Randomized phase Ib/II study of rilotumumab (AMG 102) or ganitumab (AMG 479) with panitumumab versus panitumumab alone in patients (pts) with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)
C. Eng, et al., O-0022

11:45
New drugs on the horizon for CRC – anno 2011
John L. Marshall, MD

12:05
New targets in gastrointestinal cancer
Josep Tabernero, MD, PhD

12:25
Round table discussion

12:45
Adjourn session

13:00
ESO Cancer Observatory begin

The ESO colorectal cancer observatory: Innovation and care in the next 12 months Chair: Mario Dicato Moderator: Alberto Costa

Advances in surgical oncology: Greame Poston

Adjuvant therapy: Eric Van Cutsem

Metastatic disease: Roberto Labianca

Targeted treatment: Fortunato Ciardiello

Advocacy: Hedwig Neesen

14:30
ESO Cancer Observatory adjourn

Session XIX: Liver metastases
Chairs: Bernard Nordlinger, MD and Mario Dicato, MD

14:45
Presentation of ESSO Award

14:45
Surgery for liver metastases: How far should the surgeon go?
Graeme J. Poston, MD

15:10
The multimodal treatment of liver metastases: Frequently asked questions
Bernard Nordlinger, MD

15:30
What is the optimal neo-adjuvant treatment for liver metastases?
Alberto Sobrero, MD

15:50
Presentation of selected abstract

A European multicentre evaluation of survival, safety and liver function after radioembolisation with 90y-resin microspheres (ENRY) for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
B. Sangro, et al., O-0023

16:00
Liver directed therapy – a critical analysis: Selective radiotherapy, drug eluting beads or intrahepatic chemotherapy
Michel Ducreux, MD, PhD

Session XX: Report on expert discussion

16:20
Presentation of outcome of expert discussion on adjuvant treatment of colon cancer
Mario Dicato, MD and Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD

16:40 Adjourn

 

 


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