Program

 

Thursday September 12, 2024

 

08.00     Reception and registration

09.00     Opening

09.15     The multidisciplinary approach in Head and Neck Cancer           

09.30     Value based medicine of the HN care pathway             

09.45     Logistics and benefits of the multidisciplinary approach                          

10.00     The MDM: standard cases           

10.30     Coffee break

11.00     Care pathway            

12.30     Lunch

13.15     Patient societies                        

13.45     The MDM: standard cases          

14.00     Dilemmas in imaging and staging           

14.45     Dilemmas in response evaluation: imaging and salvage surgery        

15.30     Tea break

16.00     Dilemma’s in histopathology and cytology          

16.45     Tailored treatment in elderly          

17.30     Key note lecture by Robert Takes: Speeding up your head and neck oncology care pathway        

18.15     Closure day 1

19.00     Course dinner  restaurant Prinsenhof in Groningen

 

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Friday September 13, 2024

08.00     Registration

Workshops

08.15    

Session 1: Prediction of clinical outcome: survival, adverse ans QOL

Session 2: TORS or (chemo)radiation?

09.00

Session 1: Preventing adverse events after (chemo)radiation

Session 2: How to handle airway obstructive tumors

09.45

Session 1: Which patients need protons?

Session 2: Parotid gland tumors: which surgery?

 

10.15    Coffeebreak

 

11.00

Session 1: Recurrence and non-responders

Session 2: Oral cancer patients deserve Multidisc 3D treatment

11.45

Session 1: Which patients need immunotherapy?

Session 2: Swallowing and speaking problems after TL

 

12.30     Lunchbreak

 

13.15

Session 1: Prevention and treatment of complications after major HN surgery

Session 2: Complex cutaneous squamous cell cancer HN

14.00

Session 1: Impaired wound healing

Session 2: Melanoma and Merkelcelca HN

14.45

Session 1: Large defects: free flap, pedicled flap or implants

Session 2: Detection of lymph node metastases

 

15.30     Teabreak

 

16.00

Session 1: Margins and postop (chemo)radiation?

Session 2: Treatment of paranasal sinus and skull base tumors

16.45

Session 1: Multidisciplinary palliative care

Session 2: Non-SCC head and neck tumors

17.30

Session 1: Treatment of pain

Session 2:  Rare tumors: the multidisciplinary approach

18.00     Closing remarks

 

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Saturday September 14, 2024

 

08.00     Opening

08.15     Patient preferences vs doctors advice?

09.00     Another primary tumor?

09.45     New fronteers in HN oncology

10.45     Coffee break

11.15     The MDM: difficult cases

13.00     Closing remarks

13.15     Lunchbox