Regional Sessions organized by Young Oncologists’ Forum of SLCO
Hands-on Training in Radiotherapy Contouring for Lower GI Malignancies | Current Techniques of Delivery of Brachytherapy in Cervical Cancer | Workshop on Oncoplastic Breast surgery | Collaborative workshop with SLCNP on Nutritional Care in Cancer Patients | |
Date | 12/10/2023 8.00 am to 12.00 pm | 12/10/2023 2.00pm to 4.00 pm 13/10/2023 8.00am to 12.00 pm | 13/10/2023 8.00 am to 12.00 pm | 13/10/2023 8.00 am to 1.00pm |
Venue | National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka | National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka | Theatre Complex, National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka | Galadari Hotel |
Target audience | -Consultant Oncologists -Oncology Trainees | -Consultant Oncologists – Oncology Trainees – Physicists – Therapy Radiographers | – Consultant Surgeons – Surgical trainees | -Post-graduate trainees – Medical Officers – Nurses – Pharmacists |
Details of Registration | Contact: slconcology@gmail.com | Contact: slconcology@gmail.com | Contact: slconcology@gmail.com | Full |
Inauguration Ceremony
Date and Time: 13/10/2023 6.30pm onwards
Venue: Galadari Hotel
Presidential Induction |
Fellowship Awarding Ceremony |
Dr Lakdasa Dissanayake Memorial Oration: Dr Rasitha Manathunga |
Invitees only |
| Time | Session type | Session theme | Session topics | Speaker |
| Day 1 | 14th October 2023 | ||||
| 08.30 – 08.45 | Opening remarks | |||
| 08.45 – 09.20 | Plenary 1 | SABR for Oligometastatic disease: “To whom, when and where” | Dr. Ahmed Salem | |
| 09.20 – 09.55 | Keynote | Conceptualising Cancer: An Epidemiological Approach | Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe | |
| 09.55 – 11.00 | Symposium 1 | Treatment of Colorectal cancer: Making sense of emerging evidence | Novel Approaches in Systemic treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer | Dr. Peter Correa |
| Sphincter saving surgery for lower rectal cancer; the science & the art | Dr. Ruwan Jayawardene | |||
| Throwing the book: Total Neoadjuvant Therapy for Rectal Cancer | Dr. Asanka Gamage | |||
| 11.00 – 11. 15 | Tea | |||
| 11.15 – 12.20 | Symposium 2 | Haemato-oncology: “New tools for vexing problems” | CART cell therapy: Hope or Hype? | Dr. Colin Phipps |
| The role of radiotherapy in optimizing outcomes in Lymphoma | Prof. Peter Hoskin | |||
| Treating transplant ineligible multiple myeloma: Tips and Tricks | Dr. Georgia McCaughan | |||
| 12.20 -13.00 | Plenary 2 | Reirradiation with brachytherapy: Making the best of a second chance | Prof. Primoz Petric | |
| 13.00 – 13.40 | Lunch | |||
| 13.40 – 14.15 | Plenary 3 | “It’s not all about the cancer” – Osteoporosis in cancer patients | Dr. Sonali Gunatilake | |
| 14.15 – 15.20 | Symposium 3 | The Multi-disciplinary Management of Vaginal and Vulval Cancer: Insights into the Forgotten Cancers | Advances in Radiotherapy for Vaginal Cancer | Prof. Primoz Petric |
| Role of Brachytherapy in Carcinoma of the Vulva | Prof. Umesh Mahantshetty | |||
| Optimising Surgery for Vulval Cancer | Dr. Samanthi Premarathne | |||
| 15.20 – 15.55 | Plenary 4 | Getting it right: Personalising surgical management of Oesophageal Cancer | Dr. Minoli Joseph | |
| 15.55 – 16.30 | Plenary 5 | Fractionation regimens in Cervical Cancer: Leveraging radiobiology to optimize outcomes | Prof. Umesh Mahantshetty | |
| Day 2 | 15th October 2023 | ||||
| 08.30 – 08.45 | Recap Day 1 | |||
| 08.45 – 09.20 | Plenary 6 | Role of CDK Inhibitors in Breast Cancer – Time to revisit treatment paradigms? | Prof. Bishal Gyawali | |
| 09.20 – 10.25 | Symposium 4 | Management of low grade glioma – “Treading the fine line between harm and benefit” | Challenges and patient selection for surgical excision | Dr. Stavinsky Perera |
| Choosing the lesser evil | Prof. Madumitha Dandapani | |||
| Adjuvant Treatment: Is discretion the better part of valour? | Dr. Anuththara Senevirathne | |||
| 10.25 – 11.25 | Free paper presentation | |||
| 11.25 – 11. 40 | Tea | |||
| 11.40 – 12.45 | Symposium 5 | Collaborative approach for problem solving in soft tissue sarcomas | Dr. Mahilal Wijekoon/ Dr. Kusal De Silva/ Dr. Densil Gunasekara/ Dr. Priyanka Abeygunasekara/ Dr. Prabani Maddumarachchi | |
| 12.45 – 13.20 | Plenary 7 | Outcomes that matter: filtering the music from the noise | Prof. Bishal Gyawali | |
| 13.20 -14.20 | Lunch | |||
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