Scientific Topics

Friday, 2 March 2007
08:50
Welcome and introduction
Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD, Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD and Enriqueta Felip, MD

Session I: State-of-the-art lectures
Chair: Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD

09:00
Early diagnosis: Where we are
Speaker Invited

09:20
Systemic therapies in early disease: Are they
worth it for every patient?
Thierry Le Chevalier, MD

09:40
New radiation therapy techniques: Costs and benefits
Suresh Senan, MD

10:00
How many patients with marginally resectable
NSCLC may benefit from surgery?
Paul R. De Leyn, MD, PhD

10:20
Hurdles and benefits of targeted therapies Nicholas Thatcher, MB, BChir, PhD

10:40
Panel discussion

11:10
Coffee break

Session II: Keynote lecture I
Chair: Nico Van Zandwijk, MD, PhD

11:30
Advances in diagnostic imaging
Stefan Schönberg, MD

Session III: Case discussion I
Chair: Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD

12:00 Case 1: Second primary
Nico van Zandwijk, MD, PhD

12:30
Case 2: Stage III NSCLC
Wilfried Eberhardt, MD

13:00
Panel discussion

13:20
Lunch break

Session IV: Lung cancer as a genetic disease
Chair: Elisabeth Brambilla, MD

14:30
Molecular pathogenesis of lung cancer
Elisabeth Brambilla, MD

14:50
Genetic predisposition to lung cancer:
Can we identify a high-risk group?
Speaker Invited

15:10
Genetic prognostic and predictive factors
Robert Pirker, MD

15:30
How genes may help us individualize treatment
Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD

15:50
Panel discussion

16:10
Coffee break

Session V: Keynote lecture II
Chair: Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD

16:30
Targeting the EGFR pathway: The lessons from clinical trials of the last decade
Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD

17:00
Chair summary and take-home messages
Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD, Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD and Enriqueta Felip, MD

17:10 Adjourn

 

Saturday, 3 March 2007

Session VI: Parallel meet-the-expert sessions
08:00
Gender-related differences in lung cancer
Enriqueta Felip, MD

Treatment choices in second-line therapy
Lucio Crinó, MD

Frail and elderly patients: Is single-agent therapy still the only way forward?
Cesare Gridelli, MD

Session VII: Management of tumor and treatment related symptoms
Chairs: Peter G. Harper, MD and Robert Pirker, MD

09:00
Management of paraneoplastic syndromes in lung cancer
Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD

09:20
Biomarkers and treatment of bone metastases
Peter G. Harper, MD

09:40
Management of the side effects of targeted therapies
Speaker Invited

10:00
Pain control strategies in lung cancer
Robert Pirker, MD

10:20
Panel discussion

10:40
Coffee break

Session VIII: Keynote lecture III
Chair: Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD

11:15
Stem cells and lung cancer
Speaker Invited

Session IX: Case discussion II
Chair: Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD

11:45
Case 3: Stage II disease with solitary severe pulmonary emphysema
Wilfried Eberhardt, MD

12:15
Case 4: Limited SCLC with severe COPD and diabetes type II
Egbert F. Smit, MD, PhD

12:45
Lunch break

Session X: Keynote lecture IV
14:15
Targeting tumor and tumor associated endothelial cells: An integrated approach
Speaker Invited

Session XI: Update on new targets and new agents in lung cancer
Chairs: Christian Manegold, MD and Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD

14:45
Investigating TLR9 in the treatment of NSCLC
Wilfried Eberhardt, MD

15:05
Enzastaurin and its role in lung cancer therapy
Christian Manegold, MD

15:25
VEGFR inhibitors
Jean-Yves Douillard, MD, PhD

15:45
MTOR inhibitors
Lucio Crinó, MD

16:05
HDAC inhibitors
Johan F. Vansteenkiste, MD, PhD

16:25
Modulators of apoptosis and their role in lung cancer therapy
Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD

16:45
Panel discussion

17:05
Chair summary and take-home message
Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD, Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD and Rafael Rosell, MD, PhD

17:20
Adjour

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