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Joint webinar: Patient preferences matter

Virtual Event

The Older Adult Council-OAC is a think-tank established in 2022 to stimulate cross cutting questions in the field of cancer in the older population. Currently, one of our strategies is to identify new key areas of interest in the research of older patients with cancer. OAC would like to raise awareness on improving clinical research in older adult patients by exploring methodological aspects like the study design, the benefit assessment, the recruitment, retention, treatment toxicities, evaluation of frailty and translational research.

In this scope, the Educational Working Group of the OAC took the initiative to launch webinar series. This webinar will focus on patient preference matter and will be performed in collaboration with the EORTC Quality of Life Group.

Audience: we will welcome all caregivers interested in.

MEETING AGENDA

Introduction
Patient preferences matter: how can we make them tangible in the care of older adults with cancer?
Pierluigi Bonomo
Radiation oncologist
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, University of Florence, Italy
17.00 to 17.10 CET
Assessing patient preferences and implementing them in clinical trials: why is it so challenging?
Luigi Lim
Biostatistician, Quality of Life Department
EORTC, Brussels, Belgium
17.00 to 17.30 CET
Balancing patient priorities between efficacy, toxicity and quality of life.
Ananda Plate
Executive Director, Patvocates, Munich, Germany
17.30 to 17.50 CET
The clinical perspective: difficult choices in rare tumours
Emilie Le Rhun
Neuro-oncologist, UniversitaetsSpital, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-Chair of EORTC Older Adult Council
17.50 to 18.10 CET
Question and Answer session
Moderators:

Lissandra Dal Lago
Medical oncologist, Chirec Cancer Institute, Brussels, Belgium
Past Chair EORTC Older Adult Council
Paolo Bossi
Medical oncologist
Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milano, Italy
Chair of EORTC Older Adult Council
18.10 – to 18.30 CET

If you have any question, please contact communication@eortc.org.

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