Scientific Programme

Thursday 19 June, 2008

(1) EADO session
Question about prevention and early detection of melanoma

Prevention

  • What is the real role of UV in the different types of melanoma?
    Martin Weinstock (USA)

  • Do epidemiological trends of melanoma suggest an efficacy of sun prevention?
    Luigi Naldi (Italy)

Early detection and surveillance of nevi

  • Is education to the community cost effective for early detection of melanoma?
    Alex Stratigos (Greece)

  • Monitoring techniques (mole mapping, computerized dermoscopy …):
    cost-effective or time consuming?
    Michael Binder (Austria)

  • Dysplastic nevi in 2008
    Josep Malvehy (Spain)

  • Kinetics of melanoma growth: an impact on early detection?
    Jean-Jacques Grob (France)

(2) ICATMM session
Adjuvant therapy: what have we learnt?

How can we select subgroups for adjuvant therapy?

  • Risk markers: molecular profile of primary tumors
    Alain Spatz (France)

  • Risk markers: surgical staging
    Vernon Sondak (USA)

  • Risk markers: disease staging: present and future
    Jeffrey Gerschenwald (USA)

  • Response predictors: auto-immunity
    Helen Gogas (Greece)

  • Response predictors: tumor markers and markers of residual disease
    Selma Ugurel (Germany)

  • Detection of residual disease during surveillance: imaging and ultrasound
    Philippe Saiag (France)

Current status of the adjuvant therapy

  • Surgical adjuvant therapy: elective node dissection according to sentinel node status: Pro
    Merrick Ross (USA)

  • Surgical adjuvant therapy: elective node dissection according to sentinel node status: Against
    Joseph Meirion Thomas (United Kingdom)

  • Adjuvant therapy with Interferons: 20 years of Interferons α
    Alexander Eggermont (The Netherlands)

  • Adjuvant therapy with Interferons: pegylated interferons
    Claus Garbe (Germany)

Free communications

 

Friday 20 June, 2008

(3) EADO and ICATMM session
New strategies: from first results in metastatic melanoma to the application in the adjuvant therapy

Targeted therapies and combinations

  • Targeting kinase and signalling pathways
    Paul Nathan (United Kingdom)

  • Targeting integrins and angiogenesis
    Jens Gille (Germany)

  • Targeting resistance to apoptosis
    Hubert Pehamberger (Austria)

  • Targeting histone deacetylase and DNA hypermethylation
    Peter Hersey (Australia)

  • Targeting heat shock proteins, chaperones and proteasomes
    Keith Flaherty (USA)

  • Synthesis:What potential place in the palliative and adjuvant strategy?
    (results of clinical trials)
    Axel Hauschild (Germany)

New development in chemotherapy and combinations

  • Recent advances in chemotherapy of melanoma and chemo-immunotherapy
    Sanjiv Agarwala (USA)

  • Combining chemotherapy and targeted therapy
    Alessandro Testori (Italy)

New development in immunotherapy and potential application in adjuvant setting

  • Future therapeutic avenues based on immune response against melanoma
    Daniel Olive (France)

  • New approaches using cytokines
    John Kirkwood (USA)

  • Vaccination dendritic cells approach
    Dirk Schadendorf (Germany)

  • What’s new in adoptive immunotherapy
    Brigitte Dreno (France)

  • Anti CTLA4 and combination
    Antoni Ribas (USA)

  • Place of natural immunity modulation (TLR agonists, …)
    Reinhard Dummer (Switzerland)

  • Using sentinel node as a target for adjuvant therapy?
    Tanja de Gruijl (The Netherlands)

  • Synthesis:What potential place in the palliative and adjuvant strategy?
    Caroline Robert (France)

  • Systemic treatment of metastatic melanoma. Quo vadis oncologist?
    Spyros Retsas (United Kingdom)

Free communications

 

Saturday 21 June, 2008

(4) EADO session

Non surgical treatments of non melanoma skin cancers (actinic keratoses, invasive squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma)

  • Is field cancerization more than a concept?
    Eggert Stockfleth (Germany)
  • Do we need to treat all actinic keratoses? Identification of people at risk?
    Martin Weinstock (USA)
  • Best indications of Solaraze
    Hubert Pehamberger (Austria)
  • Best indications of 5 FU
    Eggert Stockfleth (Germany)
  • Best indications of Imiquimod
    Sergio Chimenti (Italy)
  • Best indications of Cryotherapy, Lasers and PTD
    Marie-Aleth Richard (France)

Genetic counselling in melanoma

  • Genetics of melanoma
    Julia Newton-Bishop (United Kingdom)
  • What practical impact of genetic counselling?
    Ketty Perris (Italy)

Managing cutaneous lymphoma

  • Better understanding how to classify common and rare forms of skin lymphoma
    Marie Beylot-Barry (France)
  • Physiopathology of mycosis fungoides
    Martine Bagot (France)
  • Recent results in the treatment of mycosis fungoides
    (chemotherapies, retinoids, targeted therapies…)
    Reinhard Dummer (Switzerland)
  • Refractory T cell skin lymphoma
    Roland Kaufmann (Germany)
  • Managing pseudo-lymphomas and low grades lymphomas
    Hervé Bachelez (France)
  • Selection of strategies in cutaneous B cell lymphomas
    Reda Bouabdallah (France)

Satellite symposia already announced

Thursday, June 19, 2008
18:30-19:30
NORTH AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Friday, June 20, 2008
13:00-14:00
GENTA
  Friday, June 20, 2008
18:30-19:30
SCHERING-PLOUGH