Scientific program

Thursday 3 November 2011
   
13.00 Welcome and introduction
   
13.30-18.00 Strategies for organ preservation
  Chairs: Jean Louis Lefebvre, Jean Bourhis
13.30 Strategies for larynx preservation
  Jean Louis Lefebvre, France
14.00 Partial laryngeal surgery
  Dominique Chevalier, France
14.20 Salvage surgery after chemo-radiotherapy
  Miquel Quer, Spain
14.40

Is modern imaging able to predict response to treatment (before, during)?

  Sandra Nuyts, Belgium
15.00 Proffered Papers
  Chairs: Jean Louis Lefebvre, Jean Bourhis
15.00 Boron neutron capture therapy for recurrent head and neck cancer
  Itsuro Kato, Osaka, Japan
15.15

Intensity modulated radiotherapy for head & neck cancer- Is there a correlation between mean contralateral parotid dose and objective late oral toxicity?

  David McIntosh, Glasgow, United Kingdom
15.30 Recurrence patterns and salvage surgery following chemoradiation for advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinoma
  Simone Eerenstein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15.45 Cetuximab plus radiotherapy versus concomitant cisplatin plus radiotherapy, a randomised study
  Caroline Brammer, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
   
16.00 Coffee break
   
16.30 Clinical Cases
  Moderator: Jean Bourhis, France
17.30

Debate on organ preservation:
Alternating chemotherapy / radiation therapy

  Marco Merlano, Italy
 

versusConcurrent chemotherapy / radiation therapy

  Kian Ang, USA
   
Friday 4 November 2011
   
9.00-12.30 Rare head and neck tumors
  Chairs: Jan Vermorken, Philip Sloan
9.00 Translational research in rare tumors
  Philip Sloan, UK
9.20 Salivary gland carcinoma
  Lisa Licitra, Italy
9.40 Sinonasal cancers: progress, challenges and future directions
  Ehab Hanna, USA
10.00 Proffered Papers
  Chairs: Jan Vermorken, Philip Sloan
10.00 Salivary gland carcinoma in Denmark 1990-2005: Incidence, histology, outcome and prognostic factors. Results of the Danish Head and Neck Cancer Group (DAHANCA
  Kristine Bjørndal, Odense, Denmark
10.20 Multi-slice Computed Tomography Angiography in evaluation of neck tumor vascular pattern and value of spread with in neck structures
  Liana Gzirishvili, Tbilisi, Georgia
   
10.40 Coffee break
   
11.15 Advances in radiotherapy of rare head and neck cancer
  Hans Langendijk, The Netherlands
11.30 Advances in the treatment of head and neck melanoma
  Ulrich Keilholz, Germany
11.45 Clinical cases
  Moderator: Jan Vermorken
   
12.30-13.45 Satellite Symposium – Merck Serono
  Chairs: Jean Louis Lefebvre, France and Francesco Cognetti, Italy
12.30 Welcome and introduction
  Francesco Cognetti, Italy
12.35 Optimizing RT treatment for patients with locally advanced Head and Neck tumors
  Moderator: Jean Louis Lefebvre
 

Speakers:
Jean Bourhis, France

Marco Merlano, Italy
Kian Ang, USA
Andreas Dietz, Germany

13.05 Optimizing 1st line treatment for patients with r/m Head and Neck tumors
  Moderator: Jan Vermorken
  Speakers:
Lisa Licitra, Italy
Sandrine Favre, France
Ulrich Keilholz, Germany
13.35 Conclusions
  Jean Louis Lefebvre, France
   
12.30 Lunch break
   
13.45-18.00 Strategies for non-resectable tumors
  Chairs: René Leemans, Andreas Dietz
13.45 Keynote Lecture
  René Leemans, The Netherlands
14.15 How to manage the residual disease?
  Andreas Dietz, Germany
14.35 Is there a place for maintenance therapy?
  Sandrine Faivre, France
14.55

Are all non resectable diseases to be treated in the same way?

  Jan Vermorken, Belgium
15.15 Proffered Papers
  Chairs: René Leemans, Andreas Dietz
15.15 Weekly multiagent chemotherapy for advanced non melanoma skin cancer
  Vittoria Espeli, Geneva, Switzerland
15.30 Quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer: Can we predict patients whose quality of life will deteriorate most during the acute toxicity phase of radiotherapy?
  Silke Tribius, Hamburg, Germany
15.45 Serial comprehensive geriatric evaluation in elderly head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
  Philip Debruyne, Kortrijk, Belgium
16.00 A randomized, open-label, phase II study of afatinib (BIBW 2992) versus cetuximab in recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
 

Tanguy Seiwert, Chicago, USA

   
16.15 Coffee break
   
16.45 Clinical Cases
  Moderator: Andreas Dietz
17.30

Debate:
Induction chemotherapy

  Jan Vermorken, Belgium
 

versus
Concurrent chemo-radiation therapy

  Volker Budach, Germany
   
Saturday 5 November 2011
   
9.00-12.30 Virus-induced head and neck tumors
  Chairs: Kian Ang, Amanda Psyrri
9.00 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
  Lisa Licitra, Italy
9.30 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) related head & neck cancers
  Amanda Psyrri, USA
9.50 Immunotherapy and vaccination
  t.b.c.
10.10 Psychosocial aspects in head and neck cancer patients
  Gerry Humphris, UK
   
10.30 Coffee break
   
11.00 Proffered papers
  Chairs: Kian Ang, Amanda Psyrri
11.00 Relationship between Epstein Barr Virus markers and prognostic in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
  Esma Kerboua, Alger, Algeria
11.20 Induction TP followed by concomitant chemoradiation versus RT/cetuximab chemoradiation in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Initial results of a randomized phase II study
  Guopei Zhu, Shanghai, China
   
11.40 Clinical Cases
  Moderator: Kian Ang, USA
   
12.30 Closing