Free oral communications

Thursday, June 19, 2008

16:30-18:15

FREE ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 1
Chairs: Michael Binder (Austria), Jeffrey E. Gershenwald (USA), Peter Hersey (Australia)

16:30 CO01 Slow dynamics of lymphoscintigraphic mapping is associated to the negativity of the sentinel node in melanoma patients
L. Mahieu-Renard, S. Cammilleri, R. Giorgi, C. Gaudy-Marqueste, O. Mundler, M.A. Richard, J.J. Grob (France)
16:37 CO02 Is the sentinel node biopsy a reliable prognostic factor in malignant melanoma?
A. Berners, J.F. Baurain, I.Tromme, F. Hammouch, B.Weynand, R.Vanwijck (Belgium)
16:44 CO03 Sentinel lymph node biopsy is an important prognostic factor for melanoma patients: prospective analysis of 609 consecutive patients
D. Göppner, J. Ulrich,A. Pokrywka, B. Peters, H. Gollnick, M. Leverkus (Germany)
16:51 CO04 Randomized, open Phase II study of immunization with the recombinant MAGE-A3 protein combined with the proprietary adjuvant systems AS02B or AS15 in patients with unresectable and progressive metastatic cutaneous melanoma (EORTC 16032-1831)
W. Kruit, S. Suciu, B. Dreno,V. Chiarion-Sileni, L. Mortier, C. Robert, M. Maio,V.G. Brichard, F. Lehmann, U. Keilholz (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,The Netherlands)
16:58 CO05 Intermittent high-dose intravenous interferon alpha 2b (IFNa2b) for adjuvant treatment of stage III malignant melanoma: First interim analysis of a prospective randomized phase III trial
P. Mohr,A. Hauschild,A. Enk, U.Trefzer,W.Tilgen, S. Grabbe, N. Brockmeier, J. Koller, H. Gogas, M.Weichenthal for the DeCOG Melanoma Study Group (Austria, Germany, Greece)
17:05 CO06 Can the response to adjuvant treatment of melanoma with multisubtype interferon-alpha be predicted?
O. Strannegard (Sweden)
17:12 CO07 Quality of life (QoL) in melanoma patients receiving intermittent high-dose interferon alpha 2b (IFNa2b)
M.Weichenthal,A. Hauschild,A. Enk, U.Trefzer,W.Tilgen, S. Grabbe, N. Brockmeier, J. Koller, H. Gogas, P. Mohr on behalf of the DeCOG Melanoma Study Group (Austria, Germany, Greece)
17:19 CO08 High-dose interferon therapy alters the features of atypical nevi in patients with melanoma: pilot results of clinical corollary trial
M.Amini-Adle, D. Jukic, H.Wang, C. Sander, S. Moschos, H. Edington, J.M. Kirkwood (France, USA)
17:26 CO09 Expression of defined genes identified by pre-treatment tumor profiling: association with clinical responses to the GSK MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic in metastatic melanoma patients (EORTC 16032-18031)
J. Louahed, O. Gruselle, S. Gaulis,T. Coche,A. Spatz,A.M.M. Eggermont,W. Kruit, B. Dreno,V. Chiarion-Sileni, F. Lehmann,V.G. Brichard (Belgium, France, Italy,The Netherlands)
17:33 CO10 Increased risk of BRAF-mutant melanomas in MC1R variant carriers
M.C. Fargnoli, K. Pike, R.M. Pfeiffer, S.Tsang, E. Rozenblum, D.J. Munroe,Y. Golubeva, D. Calista, S. Seidenari, D. Massi, P. Carli, J. Bauer, D.E. Elder, B.C. Bastian, K. Peris, M.T. Landi (Italy, USA)
17:40 CO11 Reproductive and hormonal factors and melanoma in women: controversial issues
M. Lens,V. Bataille, I. Rosdahl (Sweden, United Kingdom)
17:47 CO12 A study on melanoma growth rate and associated factors in a cohort of Greek patients with cutaneous melanoma
V. Nikolaou,V. Sypsa, M. Plaka, D. Polydorou,V. Hasapi, O. Papadopoulos, H. Gogas, D.Tsoutsos, A. Katsambas, A.J. Stratigos (Greece)
17:54 CO13 Melanoma in organ transplant recipients: clinicopathological features and outcome in 100 cases
R.N. Matin, D. Mesher, C.M. Proby, J.M. McGregor, J.N. Bouwes Bavinck,V. del Marmol, S. Euvrard, C. Ferrandiz, A. Geusau, M. Hackethal,W.L. Ho, G.F.L Hofbauer, B. Imko-Walczuk, J. Kanitakis, A. Lally, J.T. Lear, C. Lebbe, G.M. Murphy, S. Piaserico, D. Seckin, E. Stockfleth, C. Ulrich, F.T.Wojnarowska, H.Y. Lin, C. Balch, C.A. Harwood (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland,The Netherlands,Turkey, United Kingdom, USA)
18:01 CO14 Oral retinoids in chemoprevention of non-melanoma skin cancer
M. Lens,V. Bataille (United Kingdom)
18:08 CO15 Rare skin cancer: a population-based cancer registry descriptive study of 151 consecutive cases diagnosed between 1980 and 2004
M.O. Riou, E. Fournier, A. Danzon, F. Pelletier, P. Humbert, F. Aubin (France)

 

Friday, 19 June, 2008

11:10-12:30

FREE ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 2
Chairs: Helen Gogas (Greece), Roland Kaufmann (Germany), Paul Nathan (United Kingdom), Alessandro Testori (Italy)

11:10 CO16 Role of the microenvironmental matricellular protein SPARC in melanoma cell growth
N. Fenouille, G. Robert, P.Abbe, J.P. Ortonne, R. Ballotti, S.Tartare-Deckert (France)
11:17 CO17 Vitamin D serum levels in relation to skin type and sun exposure in the UK
V. Bataille, D. Glass, M. Lens, S. Cervino, R. Swaminathan,T.D. Spector (United Kingdom
11:24 CO18 Evaluation of the EGF-receptor inhibitor erlotinib and the VEGF monoclonal antibody bevacizumab in preclinical models of melanoma
N. Schicher, R. Kunstfeld, P. Pilarski, H. Pehamberger, C. Hoeller (Austria)
11:31 CO19 Monophasic, biphasic and complex serum protein S100beta responses to melanoma therapy: implications for targeted therapy
A. Rübben (Germany)
11:38 CO20 New apoptosis markers: a feasible tool to improve prognosis definition and to define therapy response
A. di Pietro, J. Soteldo, L. Jimènez, G. Mazzarol,A.Testori (Italy)
11:45 CO21 Ciglitazone induces apoptosis of melanoma cells through a PPARy-independent mechanism
T. Botton, J.P.Ortonne, P. Bahadoran, S.Tartare-Deckert, C. Bertolotto, R. Ballotti, S. Rocchi (France)
11:52 CO22 Identification of 15d-PGJ2 (15-deoxy-D12,14-prostaglandin J2) as a new approach for the treatment of melanoma
V. Paulitschke, H. Pehamberger, R. Kunstfeld (Austria)
11:59 CO23 The α1 sodium pump subunit: a new target to combat melanomas
V. Mathieu, C. Pirker, E. Martin de Lassalle, M.Vernier,T. Mijatovic, N. DeNeve, J.F. Gaussin, M. Dehoux,W. Berger, R. Kiss (Austria, Belgium, France)
12:06 CO24 The spaghetti technique: an alternative technique to Mohs surgery for lentiginous melanomas
C. Gaudy-Marqueste, A.S. Perchenet,A.M.Tasei, G. Magalon, M.A. Richard, J.J. Grob (France)
12:13 CO25 Up-regulation of MET expression by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone and MITF allows HGF to protect melanocytes and melanoma cells from apoptosis
L. Beuret, E. Flori, C. Denoyelle, K. Bille, R. Busca, M. Picardo, C. Bertolotto, R. Ballotti (France, Italy)

 

Saturday, June 21, 2008

9:30 - 10:00

FREE ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 3
Chairs: Merrick Ross (USA), Dirk Schadendorf (Germany), Selma Ugurel (Germany)

9:30 CO26 Photodynamic therapy with a novel 5-ALA patch (PD P 506 A,AlaCare): Efficacy and safety results of two randomised phase III studies
A. Hauschild for the AK 03 and AK 04 study groups (Germany)
9:37 CO27 Treatment of actinic keratoses with a novel betulin-based oleogel.A prospective, randomised, comparative pilot study with histology
C. Huyke, J. Reuter, M. Rödig, B. Simon-Haarhaus,A. Kersten, M. Laszczyk,A. Scheffler, D. Nashan, C. Schempp (Germany, Switzerland)
9:44 CO28 Multidisciplinary approach for hemofaciectomy for invasive basal cell carcinoma and attempt of postoperative rehabilitation
G.Verougstraete,A. Jortay, P. Bisschop, J. Daens,A. Demey, P. Brutus, J. Dewan, C. Malevez (Belgium)
9:51 CO29 High allelic imbalance on chromosome 9p in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
B. Mühleisen, I. Petrov, S. Frigerio, R. Dummer, G. Burg, L.E. French, G. Hofbauer (Switzerland)