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SCIENTIFIC AGENDA

Friday, 7 September 2007

Session I: Advances in imaging and biology for head and neck cancer

Keynote lecture I: Risk-adapted screening for head and neck cancer
Serial imaging in head and neck cancer
Robert Sigal, MD

FDG PET and staging of head and neck cancer
Ludwig G. Strauss, MD

Biology of head and neck cancer: Implications to clinical care

Gerard Milano, PhD

Prognostic factors in the oral cavity
Crispian Scully, MD, PhD

Session II: Surgical advances for head and neck cancer

Keynote lecture II: Evolution of surgery in head and neck cancer
Jean-Louis Lefebvre, MD, PhD

Laser CO2 surgery
Jochen A. Werner, MD, PhD

Sentinel node procedure
Mark McGurk, MD

Reconstructive surgery
David S. Soutar, MD

Pathobiology of head and neck cancer and consequences for treatment
René C. Leemans, MD, PhD

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Session III: Meet the professor parallel sessions

HPV
Maura L. Gillison, MD, PhD

Salivary gland tumours
Lisa Licitra, MD

Chemoprevention strategies in head and neck cancer
Fausto Chiesa, MD

Session IV: Advances in radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Keynote lecture III: Changing times in head and neck cancer treatment
Volker Budach, MD, PhD

How to improve definitive radiation: Altered fractionation, concurrent chemoradiation or both?
Jean Bourhis, MD, PhD

EGFR inhibition plus radiotherapy
Jacques Bernier, MD, PhD

How to deal with hypoxia in head and neck cancer
Jens Overgaard, MD

Translational research and its implication to therapeutic approaches
Ian Stratford, MD

Session V: Advances in medical oncology for head and neck cancer

Quality of life issues in head and neck cancer
Kristin Bjordal, MD

Induction chemotherapy plus chemoradiotherapy in advanced disease
Adriano Paccagnella, MD

Docetaxel and head and neck cancers
Lisa Licitra, MD

EGFR inhibition plus chemotherapy
José Trigo, MD

Current approaches in NPC
Anthony T.C. Chan, MD

Keynote lecture IV: Future therapies: Scanning the horizon
Jan B. Vermorken, MD, PhD

 
 

 

   
 

 

 

   
       
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