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Programme 14th November
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Programme 14th November

06:30Secretariat opens
 
07:00 - 07:35 Best posters
Chairpersons: Carlos SIMÓN – Laureano MOLINS

Transesophageal fine-needle aspiration with an ultrasound bronchoscope as a complementary method to endobronchial ultrasonography
Zoran STOJANOVIC, Spain

A multivariate analysis of factors predicting survival in patients with resected thymic carcinoma
Masahiko HARADA, Japan

Validation of selective mediastinal lymph node dissection for clinical N0 non-small cell lung cancer
Taichiro ISHIZUMI, Japan

The effect of microscopic residual disease at the bronchial resection margin on recurrence and survival after curative surgery for non-small cell lung cancer
Geun Dong LEE, Korea

Hilum vessels control in lung resection: stapler versus polymeric clips (hem-o-lock®)
Cosimo LEQUAGLIE, Italy

Uk lung cancer survival: where are we going wrong?
Henrietta WILSON, United Kindom
 
07:40 - 07:55 OPENING CEREMONY
 
VIDEO FORUM 1Surgery of the airway: Tricks for a successful operation
Chairpersons: Douglas J. MATHISEN – Federico REA
 
08:00 - 08:10 Robotic lobectomy
Robert CERFOLIO
 
08:10 - 08:20 Sleeve lobectomy
Douglas J. MATHISEN
 
08:20 - 08:30 Sleeve pneumonectomy
Federico REA
 
08:30 - 08:40 Sleeve broncho-angioplasty
Abel GÓMEZ-CARO
 
08:40 - 08:50 Endotracheal procedures
Josep María GIMFERRER
 
08:50 - 09:00 Resection of tracheal tumours
Douglas J. MATHISEN
 
09:00 - 09:10 Our experience in tracheal transplantation
Pierre DELAERE
 
09:10 - 09:25 Discussion
 
SESSION 1Diagnosis and treatment of early lung cancer
Chairpersons: Douglas J. MATHISEN – Laureano MOLINS
 
09:30 - 09:40 Lung cancer & COPD
Àlvar AGUSTÍ
 
09:40 - 09:50 What’s “early” lung cancer?
Stephen D. CASSIVI
 
09:50 - 10:00 CT diagnosis
Marcelo SÁNCHEZ
 
10:00 - 10:10 Lung cancer screening: I-ELCAP-NLST
Javier ZULUETA
 
10:10 - 10:20 Endoscopic diagnosis
Antoni ROSELL
 
10:20 - 10:30 Pathologic diagnosis (Adeno/GGO)
Josep RAMÍREZ
 
10:30 - 10:40 Which operation?
Raja M. FLORES
 
10:40 - 11:00 Discussion
 
11:00 - 11:25 Coffee break
 
SESSION 2Multimodality treatment for stage IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer
Chairpersons: Stephen D. CASSIVI – Edurne ARRIOLA
 
11:30 - 11:40 Lessons learnt from clinical trials
Enriqueta FELIP
 
11:40 - 11:50 Need for proper restaging after induction treatment
Paul VAN SCHIL
 
11:50 - 12:00 When to operate on N2 disease?: The Japanese view
Shun-ichi WATANABE
 
12:00 - 12:10 When to operate on N2 disease?: The North American view
Robert CERFOLIO
 
12:10 - 12:20 When to operate on N2 disease?: The European view
Paul DE LEYN
 
12:20 - 12:30 What to do with unexpected intraoperative N2
Frank DETTERBECK
 
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion
 
13:00 - 13:55 LUNCH SESSIONS
 
LUNCH
SESSION 1
Conference Room 1

Sponsored by: PALEX


How to start a robotic programme (lobectomy, thymectomy and oesophagectomy)
Robert CERFOLIO

 
VIDEO FORUM 2 Alternative treatments for early lung cancer
Chairpersons: Frank DETTERBECK – Manuela IGLESIAS
 
14:00 - 14:10 Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
Josep María SOLÉ i MONNÉ
 
14:10 - 14:20 Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA)
Alberto HIDALGO
 
14:20 - 14:30 PDT for endobronchial tumors
Pablo DÍAZ-JIMÉNEZ
 
14:30 - 14:40 Wedge resections
Bernward PASSLICK
 
14:40 - 14:50 Segmental resections
Haruhiko KONDO
 
14:50 - 15:00 VATS Segmentectomy
Raja M. FLORES
 
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion
 
15:30 - 15:55 Coffee break
 
SESSION 3Basic molecular biology for thoracic surgeons
Chairpersons: Thomas RICE – Christian ROLFO
 
16:00 - 16:10 What is an oncogene?
Alfons NAVARRO
 
16:10 - 16:20 What are driver and passenger mutations?
Luis MONTUENGA
 
16:20 - 16:30 How does the TK pathway work and why to inhibit it?
Noemí REGUART
 
16:30 - 16:40 How does a target therapeutic agent work?
Enriqueta FELIP
 
16:40 - 16:50 Epigenetic signatures for prognosis in non small cell lung cancer
Juan SANDOVAL
 
16:50 - 17:10 Discussion
 
SESSION 4Pneumonectomy
Chairpersons: Jean DESLAURIERS – José BELDA-SANCHIS
 
17:15 - 17:25 Pneumonectomy after induction treatment
Gilbert MASSARD
 
17:25 - 17:35 Quality of life after pneumonectomy
Jean DESLAURIERS
 
17:35 - 17:45 Post-pneumonectomy syndrome
José BELDA-SANCHIS
 
17:45 - 17:55 Indications for destroyed lung
Souheil BOUBIA
 
17:55 - 18:05 Completion pneumonectomy
Jean DESLAURIERS
 
18:05 - 18:30 Discussion
 
EXTRAORDINARY
LECTURE 1
Chairpersons: Ramón RAMI-PORTA – Roser SAUMENCH
 
18:30 - 18:45 Prognosis of radiological non-invasive peripheral lung
adenocarcinoma; results of prospective cohort study
(JCOG0201)
Masahiro TSUBOI
 
18:45 - 19:00 Indications of systematic nodal dissection in
subcentimeter lung cancer
Kenji SUZUKI
 
19:00 - 19:15 Discussion
 
19:30 Secretariat closes
 
19:45 - 21:15 Official reception at Picasso Museum