BC Cancer Agency Provincial Head & Neck Retreat
Saturday, November 27, 2010 - Mackenzie Room
Learning Objectives
- Review biomarkers and their implications in the treatment of head and neck cancers
- Discuss advances in systemic treatment of Head & Neck cancer
- Learn about surgical options for Head & Neck cancer
- Highlight Head & Neck cancer radiotherapeutic treatments
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| Time | Topic | Speakers |
| 07:45 - 9:00 | Light Breakfast – Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | An update on prognostic and predictive biomarkers in head & neck malignancies |  Dr. Christine Chung, Medical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Refreshment Break - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC | |
| 10:30 - 11:05 | Medical Oncology: Population based comparison of weekly and q3 weekly cisplatin in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma The role of taxanes in HNSCC: What's the evidence?
Systemic therapy in HNSCC: An ASCO Update Medical oncology department update |
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| 11:05 - 11:45 | Radiation Oncology/Functional Imaging:
PGY1 – Toxicity in Combined Modality Treatment of HNSCC: Cisplatin versus cetuximab PGY 4 – Outcomes in Salivary Tumors New Therapeutic options in HNSCC Functional Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer OaSIS – Head & Neck outcomes unit research tool PET/CT Update: H&N Cancer |
Dr. Don Wilson
Dr. Francois Benard |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Otolaryngology/Oral Oncology: Dysguesia in Head & Neck patients Oral oncology department update Fluorescence Visualization Guided Surgery In Oral Cancer |
Miriam Rosin Catherine Poh |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Business Meeting (closed) Discussion of research initiatives |
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