We are pleased to announce that:

Cancer of Unknown Primary: Progress in the Search for Improved Diagnosis, Management and Treatment

will take place in London on Friday 27 April 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians. (The conference has been approved for 6 CPD credits).

Registration is now closed - the conference is fully booked. If your registration has not been acknowledged with an eMail from the Conference Manager you are not registered.

Chairman:

Dr F. Anthony Greco

Director of the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center, Nashville, USA

 

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Nicholas Pavlidis

Director of the Medical Oncology Department, University of Ioannina, Greece.  Chairman of the ESMO Guidelines Group

 

Conference introduction:

Professor Sir Mike Richards  National Cancer Director

 

Celebrity speaker at the speakers' reception:

John Simpson CBE  World Affairs Editor, BBC

 

Conference committee:

Dr Tony Greco, Dr Richard Osborne, Dr Maurice Slevin,

Dr Harpreet Wasan, Dr John Symons

 

Attend, Learn, Apply

The conference is for clinicians, researchers, patients, nurses and health care managers. The conference will be of particular relevance to those implementing the NICE and ESMO guidelines on the management and treatment of Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP); and those who wish to learn of the latest research findings (including CUP-One) in this fast moving field.

Topics

  • Management and treatment approaches for CUP
    • Implementing NICE Guidance & Peer Review Measures
    • Experience of improving the pathway to reduce delays, uncertainties and lack of continuity
    • International perspectives on CUP
    • Targeting treatment to patients with specific mutational profiles
  • Latest international research findings
    • The Search for Improved Diagnosis using Molecular Profiling
    • Exploiting underlying biological factors of highly metastatic cancers to develop more rational treatments
  • Improving the patient experience
    • 'Patient experience' research findings

 

A forum for learning and discussion where your experience and opinions will make the difference

The conference will be of relevance to all those interested in the pathology and treatment of cancer metastases, and the utility and validation of modern molecular profiling techniques for diagnosis and prognosis.

To discuss poster presentations; and for further information or queries eMail: jill@cupfoundjo.org

 

 

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Note: The conference organisers reserve the right to make changes to the date, venue and programme.

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Book now to avoid disappointment! Places are limited. Pre-registration is essential.

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What delegates said about the 2009 conference

 

...the topics were smartly balanced between technology and clinical issues.

 

I thought the whole conference was excellent; a very high academic standard.

 

  • Very useful day that opens up a complex hidden cancer group.

 

  • To bring together patients, carers, healthcare professionals experiences and insights is very important for the future understanding of CUP.

 

 

  • ..a real milestone in CUP. The first dedicated CUP conference, which was a huge success.

 

  • It was a novel experience to be in a room of people speaking the same language.
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  • It is good to make contacts of others working to progress the support & management of this neglected group of patients.

 

I believe that though there is a lot of work to do to raise awareness and find solutions moving forward, this meeting will be regarded as a seminal event towards dealing with this disease.

 

  • Fantastic meeting. Very well done.
  • We are taking a step at a time. We should not despair.

 

Dr Tony Greco - Chairman CUP 2012