"THYROID CANCER: current concepts"  
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Preliminary programme

International Scientific Forum
«Thyroid cancer: current concepts of diagnostics and treatment»
Russia, St.Petersburg, June 12-13, 2009
 
June, 11. Thursday
9.00-18.00 Excursion programme
9.00-18.00 Registration of participants
19.00-22.00 Opening dinner
 
June, 12. Friday
7.00-9.00 Registration of participants
9.00 Opening ceremony

9.15 – 11.30
Section 1 "General questions"
"Thyroid nodules: structure, clinical importance, treatment concepts"
"Thyroid cancer: incidence, main clinical and statistical features"
"Histological types of thyroid cancer and their importance for treatment tactics defining and patient`s prognosis""
"Chernobyl accident: consequensies for Russia and other countries"
"Chernobyl accident: correlation between low-dose irradiation and thyroid cancer incidence"

11.30 – 12.30
Coffee-break, poster session

12.30-15.00
Section 2 "Diagnostics of thyroid cancer"
"Ultrasound diagnostics of thyroid cancer: clinical importance and new methods"
"Fine needle aspiration biopsy: technique, predictive value, role of thyroglobulin and calcitonin measurement"
"Cytology for thyroid cancer: is there a possibility for new ways?"
"Immunocytochemical and genetic markers of thyroid cancer"
"Intraoperative histological examination: the role for tactics defining"

15.00 – 16.00
Dinner, poster session
 
16.00 – 18.00
Section 3 "Operative technologies in thyroid cancer treatment"
"Neck dissection: anatomy, surgical principles, clinical importance"
"Intraoperative neuromonitoring and its use in thyroid cancer patients"
"Videoassisted thyroidectomy in treatment of thyroid cancer"
"Intraoperative photodinamic diagnostics in treatment of thyroid cancer"

20.00
Gala dinner
 
June, 13. Saturday

9.00-11.45
Section 4 "Treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer"
"Differentiated thyroid cancer: treatment strategy"
"Radioiodine therapy: effectiveness, dose calculation, possible adverse effects"
"Follow-up of the patients with differentiated thyroid cancer"
"Recombinant TSH in treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer"
«Anaplastic cancer: possibly a final of the differentiated thyroid cancer history?"

11.45 – 12.30
Coffee-break, poster session
 
12.30 – 15.00
Section 5 "Medullary thyroid cancer"
"Diagnostics of medullary thyroid cancer: basal and stimulation calcitonin tests"
"Genetics of hereditary medullary thyroid cancer"
"Sporadic medullary thyroid cancer: principles of treatment strategy"
"Hereditary medullary thyroid cancer: risk evaluation and principles of treatment strategy"
"Pharmacotherapy of advanced medullary thyroid cancer: new possibilities"

15.00 – 16.00
Dinner, poster session
 
16.00 – 17.30
Section 6 "Discussion zone"
"Thyroid microcarcinomas: possible treatment options"
Discussion
"Thyroid cancer treatment: thyroidectomy vs. hemithyroidectomy for low-risk patients"
Discussion
"Central neck dissection in treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer: pro et contra"
Discussion

17.30
Closing ceremony

20.00
Excursion programme

 

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