Agenda RCF 2022

Venue: Biomedicum 1, ”Eva & Georg Klein”, Solnavägen 9, Karolinska Institutet

Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen, President, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Introduction

Prof. Anna Martling, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Future of rectal cancer treatment-will TME become obsolete?

Prof. Richard J Heald, Basingstoke Hospital, United Kingdom

Pathogenesis, Prevention, Prediction and Prognosis

Chairpersons: Prof. Torbjörn Holm and Ass. Prof. Per J Nilsson

• Microbiota – the key to carcinogenesis and treatment response? Prof. Phil Quirke, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• Chemoprevention - white willows and carrots? Prof. Gunnar Baatrup, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
• Genetic markers in personalized medicine Prof. Mef Nilbert, Copenhagen University, Denmark 
• Cutting edge in immunotherapy for (colo)rectal cancer Dr Myriam Chalabi, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Panel discussion

Chairpersons: Prof. Torbjörn Holm and Ass. Prof. Per J Nilsson

• Molecular imaging and theranostics in cancer treatment Prof. Lennart Blomqvist, & Physicist Nuclear Medicine Joachim Nilsson, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• New techniques and technologies in radiotherapy Dr Oriol Parés, Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
• Next generation robotics Prof. Amjad Parvaiz, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal and Poole Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
• Panel discussion

Liquid biopsy – the new kid on the block?

Chair: Ass. Prof. Pehr Lind

Key Note Lecture

Circulating tumor DNA in early-stage colorectal cancer: potential beyond a prognostic biomarker? Prof. Peter Gibbs, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Chair: Prof. Anna Martling

The Surgeon as prognostic factor in rectal cancer Prof. Brendan Moran, Hampshire, United Kingdom

New management of Early Rectal Cancer

Chairpersons: Dr Inês Santiago and Ass. Prof. Per J Nilsson

• Oncologicalo rgan preservation. Standard treatment now – or never? Prof. Geerard Beets, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Surgical organ preservation with and without radiotherapy Prof. Simon Bach, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Salvage surgery for local regrowths – are we harming our patients by deferring the surgery? Prof. Yves Panis, Université Paris VII, France
• Panel discussion

Chair: Ass. Prof. Annika Sjövall

Key Note Lecture

Sex, drugs and rock and roll?
Dr Katrine Jøssing Emmertsen, Aarhus University, Denmark

At the Nationalmuseum, Södra Blasieholmshamnen 2