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Belgian Society of Medical Oncology Annual Meeting 2018 (BSMO 2018)

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Last updated:20th Feb 2018
Published:20th Feb 2018
Source: Pharmawand

 

Belgian Society of Medical Oncology (BSMO) 20th Annual Meeting is organized by Belgian Society of Medical Oncology and will be held during 23rd February – 24th February 2018 at Thermae Palace Hotel, Ostende, Belgium. This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather as a community and exchange ideas and engage in cooperation.

The target audience for this medical event is medical Oncologists and Oncologists in training.

Programme:

FRIDAY 23 February 2018

12.00 BSMO General Assembly 2018 (members only)

Presentation of the different task forces of the BSMO

14.00 – 16.00 Breast cancer Task force

Chairs: Hans Wildiers, UZ Leuven and Ahmad Awada, Institut Jules Bordet

14.00 Use of NGS in metastatic breast cancer standard clinical practice

Philippe Aftimos, Institut Jules Bordet

14.25 Hereditary breast cancer beyond BRCA: how to deal with in routine clinical practice?

Kevin Punie, UZ Leuven

14.50 Practice changing results from SABCS 12-2017: debate

Francois Duhoux, UC Louvain

15.15 Clinical trial platform in Belgium?

Evandro de Azambuja, Institut Jules Bordet and Jacques De Grève, UZ Brussel

15.45 Quality management of systemic treatment of breast cancer.

Didier Verhoeven, on behalf of the Task Force on systemic treatment, AZ Klina

16.30 -17.30 Uro-oncology Task force

Chairs: Sylvie Rottey, UZ Gent and Jean-Pascal Machiel, UC Louvain

16.30 Current situations and issues in bladder cancer

Emmanuel Seront, Hôpital de Jolimont

17.00 Presentation of the BSMO immuno-manager: a novel webtool to adress toxicity of immunotherapy

Sandrine Aspeslagh, Institut Jules Bordet

SATURDAY 24 February 2018

08.55 Introduction

Jacques De Grève, BSMO President

09.00 What you should not have missed in 2017

Luc Dirix, Iridium Kankernetwerk, Antwerpen

09.30 Breast cancer case: now, past and future.

Christel Fontaine, UZ Brussel, Evandro de Azambuja, Institut Jules Bordet, Robert Paridaens

10.00 Colorectal cancer case: now, past and future

Joëlle Collignon, CHU de Liège, Willem Lybaert, AZ Nikolaas, Harry Bleiberg

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break + poster viewing

11.00 Proffered papers by junior members

Hans Prenen, UZ Leuven

13.00 MSD Oncology Award

13.15 Closing and junior awards

 

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