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EORTC Head and Neck Cancer Group Autumn Meeting

Florence, IT

The EORTC Head and Neck Cancer Group Autumn meeting will be held in Florence, Italy on 21-22 October. It is only open to individual or site staff members of the group.
Registrations for the meeting are now closed. Please send an email to events@eortc.org if you would still like to attend.

Agenda

Friday 21 October

The meeting will have a joined session with the EORTC Endocrine Tumours Group (EnTG). On Friday morning (9h30), parallel sessions will take place, and you are welcome to join either the EnTG or the HNCG session, depending on your interest.

09:30-11:00 Steering Committee meeting HNCG (closed)
11:00-11:30 Coffee and welcome
11:30-13:00 Update on recruiting trials and trials in development *
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 New proposals *
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Parallel brainstorm sessions
17.30-18.30 Presentation brainstorm results
20:00 Dinner

* These sessions can also be followed remotely. Face-to-face attendance is required for the other sessions.

Saturday 22 October

08:30-09:15 Presentation by Y-ECI *
09:15-09:30 New proposals *
09:30-11:00 Parallel brainstorm sessions
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Presentation brainstorm results
12:30-12:45 Business meeting + closure

* These sessions can also be followed remotely. Face-to-face attendance is required for the other sessions.

The aim of the brainstorming sessions is to discuss the state of the art in the various domains, what EORTC can do to improve this, with as purpose to generate ideas for new trial proposals.

The selected topics are:

    • Application to HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-03 call: Pragmatic clinical trials on minimally invasive diagnostics (submission deadline April 2023)
    • Developing studies in the Post-operative setting of HNSCC
    • Developing studies for microcarcinoma
    • What is next in LA-HNSCC setting following the results from Keynote 412 – CRT +/- pembro ?
    • What is after UPSTREAM “A pilot study of personalized biomarker-based treatment strategy or immunotherapy in patients with recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck”: i.e., UPSTREAM2 in first line recurrent/metastatic HNSCC setting?
    • Developing studies for Salivary gland cancer

 

Venue
NH Collection Firenze Palazzo Gaddi
Meeting room Sala delle Feste (first floor)
Via del Giglio 9, 50123 Firenze, Italy
Click here for directions. The meeting venue is at walking distance from the main railway station (Santa Maria Novella), located in downtown Florence.

Hotel
A room in the venue can be reserved via this link: www.nh-hotels.com/event/eortc. Note that the discount will expire on 19 September and only a limited number of rooms are available. Many other hotel options are available near the venue in downtown Florence.

Dinner
The dinner on Friday evening will take place at the meeting venue (NH Collection Firenze Palazzo Gaddi).

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