About this event

  • Date and time Mon 20 Jun 2022 from 8:30am to 5:50pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Oncology, Respiratory Medicine

This event will now take place as a webinar. To attend the webinar please click here.

Jointly organised by the Oncology and Respiratory Medicine Section, this event aims to discuss the current management of lung cancer and review the advances in diagnosis, assessment and staging.

Lung cancer diagnosis and treatment represents a rapidly changing clinical field with developments in multiple different areas. 

Our internationally renowned multidisciplinary faculty will present the current state of the art advances and treatment paradigms from early-stage lung cancer to its advanced disease.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Understand current diagnostic and staging tests for lung cancers
  • Be able to make appropriate decisions in the management of the full range and stages of lung cancer
  • Appreciate recent changes in practice and controversial areas in lung cancer management

We would like to thank our sponsor GSK for their support of this meeting. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.

Agenda

View the programme

Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Michael Beckles, Consultant Respiratory and General Physician, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Professor Christopher Nutting, President, Oncology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Session 1: Diagnosis pathology and imaging

Dr Michael Beckles

Lung cancer in the UK – challenges to be faced

Professor Mary O’Brien, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Head of the Lung Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust 

Advances in pathological assessment of non-small cell lung cancer – what represents a full evaluation?

Professor Andrew Nicholson, Consultant Histopathologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Respiratory Pathology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London

Lung cancer early diagnosis and screening

Professor David Baldwin, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Honorary Professor of Medicine, University of Nottingham

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Intervention and surgery

Dr Michael Beckles

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer – what does the future hold?

Dr Justin Garner, Consultant Respiratory Physician in Lung Cancer and Interventional Bronchoscopy, Royal Brompton Hospital

Surgical talk – fitness assessment, guidelines and radical surgery

Mr Alan Kirk, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Golden Jubilee National Hospital

The role of systemic therapy in the perioperative period

Dr Riyaz Shah, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Lunch

Annual General Meeting (for section members only)

Session 3: Radiotherapy and ablation techniques

Professor Christopher Nutting

Advances in radiation oncology and chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced lung cancer

Professor Corinne Faivre-Finn, Professor of Thoracic Radiation Oncology, University of Manchester and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Stereotactic body radiotherapy for localised lung cancer and metastatic disease

Professor Eric Deutsch, Head of Department, Radiotherapy Department and Indre-et-Loire Medical Unit, Gustave Roussy

Proton beam therapy and its potential role in management of lung cancer

Dr Crispin Hiley, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break
Personalised therapy for mutation driven non-small cell lung cancer

Professor Sanjay Popat, Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Advances in systemic therapy for mutation negative lung cancer

Dr Thomas Newsom-Davis, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Advances in management of mesothelioma

Professor Dean Fennell, Professor and Consultant in Thoracic Medical Oncology, University of Leicester

Panel discussion

Session four: Sylvia Lawler prize presentations

Sylvia Lawler prize- clinical prize presentation one
Sylvia Lawler prize- clinical prize presentation two
Sylvia Lawler prize- clinical prize presentation three
Sylvia Lawler prize- scientific prize presentation one
Sylvia Lawler prize- scientific prize presentation two
Sylvia Lawler prize- scientific prize presentation three
Award of prize
Drinks reception

Sponsors

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations.

Registration for this event will close on 19 June 2022 at 12am. Late registrations will not be accepted.

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