XVII Porto Cancer Meeting "100th Reunión de la Territorial del Noroeste de la Península Ibérica"

PROGRAMME

April 11, 2008 (Friday)

  • 09:00 – Registration
  • 10:15 – Welcome
  • 10:30 – 13:00 Case presentations* (maximum number-15)
  • 13:00 – Lunch
  • 14:00 – 16:30 Case presentations* (maximum number-15)
  • 16:30 – Coffee break
  • 17:00 – 18:30: Slide Seminar
    • Paula Chaves (Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • Afonso Fernandes (Medical Faculty & H.Sta Maria, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • Isabel Fonseca (Institute of Oncology & Medical Faculty, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • Gregory Lauwers (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA)
    • Elizabeth Montgomery (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
    • Lawrence Bugart (Abbott Northwest Hospital, Minneapolis, USA)
  • 21:00 - Meeting Dinner

April 12, 2008 (Saturday)

  • 09:00 – Barrett's adenocarcinoma. Elizabeth Montgomery (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  • 09:45 – Differentiation markers in gastric carcinogenesis with emphasis on mucin and mucin glycosylation. Leonor David (IPATIMUP & Medical Faculty, Porto, Portugal)
  • 10:30 – Gastric dysplasia and gastric polyps. Gregory Lauwers (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA)
  • 11:15 – Coffee break
  • 11:45 – Molecular pathology of gastric cancer. Fátima Carneiro (IPATIMUP & Medical Faculty/H.S.João, Porto, Portugal)
  • 12:30 – Refractory sprue and cryptic T cell lymphoma. Marie Robert (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
  • 13:15 – Lunch

April 12, 2008 (Saturday)

  • 14:15 – Dysplasia and cancer in inflammatory bowel disease. Joel Greenson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
  • 15:00 – KRAS and BRAF oncogenic mutations in MSS colorectal carcinoma progression. Raquel Seruca (IPATIMUP & Medical Faculty, Porto, Portugal)
  • 15:45 - Tumor budding and methylation/MSI in colorectal cancer. Lawrence Burgart (Abbott Northwest Hospital, Minneapolis, USA)
  • 16:30 - Coffee break
  • 17:00 – Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
  • 17:45 – Pancreatic cystic tumours. Gregory Lauwers (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA)  
  • 18:30 - EUS FNA of pancreato-biliary tract. David Lewin (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA)

April 13, 2008 (Sunday)

  • 09:00 – Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) and their mimickers. Joel Greenson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
  • 09:45 – Allograft rejection in liver transplantation. Augusta Cipriano (University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal)
  • 10:30 – Early hepatocellular carcinoma and its precursors. John Hart (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
  • 11:15 – Coffee break
  • 11:45 – 13:15 Slide Seminar
    • Maria José Brito (Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal)
    • Marie Robert (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
    • Joel Greenson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
    • John Hart (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
    • Audrey Lazenby (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
    • David Lewin (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA)
  • 13:15 - Adjourn

Sessions of Case Presentations

The clinical histories and the representative images of the cases to be presented in the first day (Sessions of Case Presentations, also devoted to Pathology of the Digestive System), should be sent to the Secretariat (e-mail: ccarona@ipatimup.pt) before March 21, 2008. These cases as well as those of the two Slide Seminars will be available online (sites of the Portuguese Society of Pathology (www.spap.pt) and Portuguese Society of Cytology (www.spcitologia.org).

Supported by GABBA Program, FCT, FLAD, Porto City Hall and Novartis Oncology

IPATIMUP. Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto: Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n - 4200-465 PORTO