What's new - What's changing in prostate cancer?
Friday 17 February 2012
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
A joint meeting with The British Uro-oncology Group
Registration for this event is now closed, unfortunately no more places are available.
The RSM and BUG will provide a highly interactive, educational meeting on the spectrum of prostate cancer: diagnosis, assessment, management and new developments in the field. The one day meeting is for trainees, junior consultants, nurses, radiographers and other colleagues who will learn about or consolidate their knowledge on the latest practice across all stages of the disease.
Registration Details:
Consultant/GP: Free of charge
RSM Retired Fellow: Free of charge
RSM Student: Free of charge
RSM Trainee: Free of charge
RSM Associate: Free of charge
RSM Fellow: Free of charge
Student: Free of charge
Trainee: Free of charge
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: Free of charge
8.30 am |
Registration, tea, coffee and exhibition |
| Chair: Dr Simon Hughes, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Guy's & St Thomas', London Dr Heather Payne, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, University College Hospital, London |
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9.20 am |
Chairs' welcome |
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Diagnosis and staging |
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9.30 am |
The screening debate |
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Mr John Anderson, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield |
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9.45 am |
New markers |
| Dr Hayley Whitaker, Research Associate, Cambridge Cancer Centre, Cambridge | |
10.00 am |
Pathology |
| Alex Freeman, Consultant Histopathologist, University College Hospital, London | |
10.15 am |
Radiology |
| Dr Clare Allen, Consultant in Radiology, University College Hospital, London | |
10.30 am |
Discussion |
10.45 am |
Tea, coffee and exhibition |
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Localised prostate cancer |
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11.00 am |
Active surveillance |
| Dr Zafar Malik, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Wirral | |
11.15 am |
Robots |
| Mr Ben Challacombe, Consultant Urologist, Guy's & St Thomas', London | |
11.30 am |
Brachytherapy |
| Dr Robert Laing, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Surrey | |
11.45 pm |
Radiotherapy - New advances |
| Prof David Dearnaley, Professor Uro-Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton | |
12.00 pm |
Challenging cases and MDT debate |
| All | |
12.30 pm |
Lunch and exhibition - posters |
1.30 pm |
Results of poster judging |
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Locally advanced disease |
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1.45 pm |
Neoadjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy |
| Dr Heather Payne, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, University College Hospital, London | |
2.00 pm |
Management of local recurrence after radiotherapy and surgery |
| Dr Simon Hughes, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Guy's & St Thomas', London | |
2.15 pm |
Challenging cases and MDT debate |
| All | |
2.45 pm |
Tea, coffee and exhibition |
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Advanced disease |
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3.00 pm |
Hormone therapy |
| Dr Amit Bahl, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Bristol Haematology & Oncology Centre, Bristol | |
3.15 pm |
Chemotherapy |
| Dr Simon Chowdhury, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Guy's & St Thomas', London | |
3.30 pm |
Palliative care |
| Dr Chris Farnham, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St John and St Elizabeth Hospice, London | |
3.45 pm |
Challenging cases and MDT debate |
| All | |
4.15 pm |
The future of MDTs |
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Mr James Green, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London Mr Ben Lamb, Clinical Research Fellow Imperial College and Whipps Cross University Hospital, London |
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4.45 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms and close of meeting |
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Meeting ref: OCC03 CPD (Applied for) |
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