We are delighted to invite you to the 19th Thoracic Oncology Winter Symposium January 21, 2023. This annual symposium offers a unique opportunity to meet (inter) national experts in thoracic oncology. Save the date and don’t miss the experience of this great meeting!

We look forward meeting you!

Programme

09.00 Registration with coffee

09.30 Welcome and introduction
Prof. Dr. Veerle Surmont, UZ Ghent

Session 1: How to optimize local and loco-regional lung cancer treatments
Chairs: Liesbeth Desender & Yolande Lievens

09:35 Segmentectomy versus lobectomy in early-stage NSCLC
Prof. Dr. Eric Lim, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

10:00 The MEDIASTrial
Jelle Bousema, Máxima MC, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

10:25 Radiotherapy in stage III NSCLC anno 2023
Prof. Dr. Suresh Senan, Amsterdam Umc, the Netherlands

10:50 Coffee break

Session 2 : How to optimize systemic  lung cancer therapy
Chairs: Veerle Surmont & Annelies Janssens

11:20 EGFR resistance and EGFR exon 20
Prof. Dr. Sanjay Popat, Royal Marsden Hospital, Londen, UK

11:45 How to integrate targeted treatments and IO with SBRT?
Prof. Dr. Maarten Lambrecht, UZ Leuven, Belgium

12:10 Adjuvant immunotherapy using next-generation mRNA-dendritic cell vaccines
Prof. Dr. Karim Vermaelen, UZ Ghent, Belgium

Session 3 How to optimize lung cancer prevention
Chairs: Paul Baas & Charlotte Debondt

12:35 Keynote lecture: lung cancer screening: the new frontier?
Prof. Dr. David Baldwin, The University of Nottingham , UK

13.20 Walking lunch

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Venue
Congress center ‘t Pand
Onderbergen 1
9000 Gent
T: +(32) 09 264 83 05

Accreditation
Accreditation application with RIZIV/INAMI is pending. The symposium was accredited with 3.5 E&E points last year.
Accreditation NVALT with 3 points.

Target audience
This symposium will be of special interest for pulmonologists, radiation oncologists, thoracic surgeons, medical oncologists, pathologists, and investigators interested in thoracic oncology.

Registration
Registration fee (including admission to the meeting, break, lunch buffet and certificate of attendance):
Regular EUR 65
ASO’s EUR 45

Free of charge (only applicable for email extensions mentioned below)
uza.be, @uantwerpen.be, @uzgent.be and @ugent.be

For questions please contact registrations@congresscare.com

Cancellation
Written cancellations received via registrations@congresscare.com before Friday, 3 January 2023 will be refunded less EUR 15 administration costs.