Winter 2007 - University of Hertfordshire

Friday 26th January 2007

The Winter meeting of the Melanoma Study Group meeting took place on Friday 26th January 2007 at the University of Hertfordshire.

The feedback received following the meeting confirmed that it was a great success. Members particularly liked the MDT discussion, and the short presentations/abstracts. We will try and make these a regular feature. Many thanks indeed to Dr Paul Nathan and Dr Veronique Bataille for all their hard work.

Abstracts from the meeting are available to download in pdf format using the links below and the minutes from the MSG Business meeting are available in the members section.

Meeting abstracts (pdf)

• Assessing response to chemotherapy in metastatic melanoma with FDG PET: early experience
• Biopsy of malignant melanoma : are we following the guidelines?
• Correlation of regression in primary melanoma with sentinel lymph node status
• Cross sectional imaging for malignant melanoma in the South West Region: How does this compare to National Guidelines and published evidence?
• The Development of Professional Skin Cancer CNS Support Group
• Malignant Melanoma re-excision specimens: Is there a need for histopathological analysis?

Final Programme

Morning Session

9.15 - 9.45am Registration

9.50am Welcome - PN/VB

10.00am Tim Eisen - TKIs in Melanoma: Precise targeting of treatment or the shotgun approach?

10.20am Darryl Dunn - Role of chemokines and VEGF isoforms in melanoma metastasis

10.40am Steve Everett - Extra-hepatic cytochromes and melanoma

11.00am Coffee

11.20am NCRI Update – Paul Lorigan

11.40am Clinical Session - Expert MDT discussing difficult clinical cases:

12.45pm - LUNCH

Afternoon Session

1.30pm MSG Business meeting - MSG members only

2.00pm Selected abstract presentations

3.00pm Julia Schofield - NICE skin cancer IOG - implications

3.20pm Coffee

3.40pm Nelleke Gruis - Melanoma genetic pathways

4.00pm Jonathan Rees - pigmentation genes and skin cancer susceptibility

4.20pm Meeting Close