PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

To stimulate learning and interchange, the meeting will include various formats for instruction and sharing:

• Invited guest lecturers
• Multidisciplinary panel presentations
• Oral paper presentations
• Oral posters
• Meet the professors sessions
• Interactive discussions, including tumor boards and debates
• Video viewing sessions

Highlighted Topics:

• Half day unopposed focused course on cervical cancer: covering screening, vaccination, staging controversies, therapeutic advances, quality of life and symptom management, resource allocation, and research directions
• State of the art summary sessions in cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer
• Management of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
• Ovarian cancer – familial/genetic risk assessment, and risk reduction
• Breast cancer - screening, familial risk assessment, and risk reduction
• Pathology and management of rare gynecologic tumors
• Advances in surgical techniques, including robotics
• Advances in imaging, including metabolic imaging as a predictor/early assessment for response to therapy
• Emerging biologics and drug discovery
• Promising basic/translational science developments
• Symptom management, palliation, and quality of life
• ‘Mini-symposiums’ on Pathology, Nursing, and Fellows