Please see the full course programme below. Please be aware that all programmes have been grouped together as follows:
8:00 - 9:00 | Registration |
Session 1 Chair - Paul Nankivell | |
Room | Fry Suite |
9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome Sat Parmar, Paul Pracy, Rene Leemans, Wojciech Golusinski |
9:15 - 9:45 | Keynote Speaker: Gouri Pantvaidya General concepts in the management of head and neck cancer |
9:45 - 10:05 | State of the art imaging for head and neck cancer Steve Colley |
10:05 - 10:35 | Keynote Speaker: Julia MacLean Optimising functional outcomes |
10:35 - 11:00 | Refreshments and Exhibition |
Session 2 Chair - Hannah Nieto | |
Room | Fry Suite |
11:00 - 11:30 | Advances in radiation oncology Sarah Hargreaves |
11:30 - 12:00 | Advances in systemic therapies and future developments Kevin Harrington |
12:00 - 12:30 | Keynote Speaker: Brett Miles State of the art surgical reconstruction |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch and Exhibition |
Session 3: Robotics Chair - Paul Pracy | |
Room | Fry Suite |
13:30 - 13:50 | Robotics in head and neck cancer Laura Warner |
13:50 - 14:10 | Management of the unknown primary Rene Leemans |
14:10 - 14:30 | Refreshments and Exhibition |
Session 4: Oropharynx Cancer | |
Room | Fry Suite |
14:30 - 15:00 | Contemporary management of the oropharynx cancer Sarah Hargreaves |
15:00 - 15:15 | Current challenges in the oropharyngeal cancer management Gouri Pantvaidya |
15:15 - 17:15 | Case Discussions: Oropharyngeal Cancer Kevin Harrington (Chair), Gouri Pantvaidya, Brett Miles, Julia MacLean, Christian Simon, Sarah Hargreaves |
17:15 - 17:30 | Summary and future perspectives Kevin Harrington |
17:30 | Close |
8:00 - 8:30 | Refreshments and Exhibition | ||
Session 5: Oral Cavity Cancer Chair - Sat Parmar | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course | ||
8:30 - 9:00 | Contemporary management of oral cancer Gouri Pantvaidya | ||
9:00 - 9:15 | Current challenges in oral cancer manager Clare Schilling | ||
9:15 - 10:45 | Case Discussions: Oral Cancer Brett Miles (Chair), Camilla Dawson, Gouri Pantvaidya, Clare Schilling, Kevin Harrington | ||
10:45 - 11:00 | Summary and future perspectives Brett Miles | ||
11:00 - 11:30 | Refreshments and Exhibition | ||
Session 6 | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course Chair - Qojciech Golusinski | Pevsner Room - Functional Outcomes | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Head and Neck Pararganglioma Paul Nankivell | Keynote Speaker: TBC What good looks like, oral cavity cancer care | |
11:50 - 12:20 | Keynote Speaker: Vincent Gregoire Treatment with re-irradiation | Improving function following CRT and managing late effects Jo Patterson | |
12:20 - 12:40 | Management of lateral skull base cancers Hannah Nieto | Cultural competence in head and neck practice Nazrana Munsif | |
12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch and Exhibition | ||
Session 7: Larynx & Hypopharynx Cancer Chair - Hannah Nieto | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course | ||
13:40 - 14:00 | Contemporary Management of Larynx & Hypopharynx Cancer Ralph Gilbert | ||
14:00
- 14:15 | Current challenges in larynx & hypopharynx cancer management Jonathan Fussey | ||
14:15 - 15:45 | Case Discussions:
Larynx & Hypopharynx Cancer Christian Simon (Chair), Brett Miles, Laura Warner, Cesare Piazza, Georgina Casswell | ||
15:45 - 16:00 | Summary and future perspectives
Christian Simon | ||
16:00 - 16:30 | Refreshments and Exhibition | ||
Session 8:
Nasopharynx and skull base
Chair - Jonathan Fussey | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course | ||
16:30 - 17:00 | Nasopharyngeal Cancer
Georgina Casswell | ||
17:00 - 17:30 | Keynote Speaker: Piero Nicolai
Contemporary management of anterior skull base tumours | ||
17:30 | Close | ||
Course Dinner - Henry Wong, Chinese Restaurant, Harborne |
9:00 - 9:30 | Refreshments and Exhibition | ||
Session 9: Salivary Cancer | |||
Time | Fry Suite - Main Course | Time | Pevsner Room - Functional Outcomes |
9:30 - 10:00 | Keynote Speaker: Cesare Piazza
Contemporary management of salivary gland cancer | 9:30 - 10:00 | Keynote Speaker: Julia MacLean
Contemporary management of surgical voice restoration |
10:00 - 10:15 | Current challenges in salivary gland cancer
management
Laura Warner | 10:00 - 10:20 | Current challenges in surgical voice restoration management
Margaret Coffey |
10:15 - 11:45 | Case discussions:
Salivary Gland Cancer
Ralph Gilbert (Chair), Laura Warner, Robert Metcalf, Vincent Gregoire, Piero Nicolai, Paweł Golusiński | 10:20 - 10:40 | Research update in surgical voice restoration-where next? Freya Sparks |
11:45 - 12:00 | Summary and future perspectives
Ralph Gilbert | 10:40 - 11:55 | Case discussions:
Surgical voice restoration
Camilla Dawson (Chair) Julia Maclean, Margaret Coffey, Jo Wheeler, Freya Sparks, Paul Pracy |
11:55 - 12:00 | Summary and future perspectives
Camilla Dawson | ||
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch and Exhibitions | ||
Session 10
Chair - Wojciech Golusiński | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course | ||
13:00 - 13:30 | Complex reconstruction and principles in the salvage setting Sat Parmar | ||
13:30 - 13:45 | State of the art prosthetics Birmingham prosthetics team | ||
13:45 - 14:15 | Keynote Speaker: Christian Simon AI and machine learning in HNC | ||
14:15 - 14:45 | Refreshments and Exhibition | ||
Session 11
Chair - Paul Nankivell | |||
Room | Fry Suite - Main Course | ||
14:45 - 15:05 | Frailty in head and neck cancer - Selection and functional
impact Camilla Dawson | ||
15:05 - 15:35 | Palliative care - What every clinician should consider John Speakman | ||
15:35 - 16:00 | A look to the future of HNC treatment Brett Miles | ||
16:00 | Closing Comments and Course End |
Room | Fry Suite |
9:00 - 9:05 | Introduction to the course
Neil Sharma |
9:05 - 9:25 | Management of thyroid cancer and lower risk cancers
Paul Nankivell |
9:25 - 9:45 | Follow up for low-risk thyroid cancer/active surveillance/new guidelines Kristien Boelaert |
Session 1: Advanced Thyroid Cancer | |
Room | Fry Suite |
9:45 - 10:05 | Extended Surgery
Speaker: TBC |
10:05 - 10:25 | Neo Adjuvant Treatment
Speaker: TBC |
10:25 - 10:45 | Post Surgery Treatment – Implications of trials (HiLo/IoN), when to use RI
Speaker: TBC |
10:45 - 11:15 | Panel Discussion
Chair - Neil Sharma Speaker: TBC |
11:15 - 11:30 | Refreshment Break |
Session 2: Recurrent Thyroid Cancer | |
Room | Fry Suite |
11:30 - 11:50 | Surgical Management of Recurrence including Investigations
Speaker: TBC |
11:50 - 12:10 | TKIs and Trials Update
Speaker: TBC |
12:10 - 12:30 | Panel Discussion Chair – TBC Speaker: TBC |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 3: Medullary Thyroid Cancer and Genetics | |
Room | Fry Suite |
13:30 - 13:50 | Genetic Syndromes associated with Thyroid Cancer
Rebecca Igbokwe |
13:50 - 14:10 | Decision making in treatment for MTC and surgical approaches for advanced disease
Radu Mihai |
14:10 - 14:30 | Drug Options
Speaker: TBC |
14:30 - 15:00 | Panel Discussion Chair - Kristien Boealert Rebecca Igbokwe, Radu Mihai |
15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshment break |
15:30 - 16:30 | Random Cases Panel
Chair - Neil Sharma All Faculty |
16:30 | Close |
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