Winter 2006 - St George's, London
January 26th 2006
Programme
9.15am Registration
10.00am Information for patients and their families diagnosed with a skin cancer
Sarah Becker and Joanne Smith
Melanoma Nurses
10.20amCell senescence barriers to melanoma: the apparent incompetence of p53.
Prof. Dot Bennett
10.50am Transcription factors in melanoma: therapeutic implications
Colin Goding , Marie Curie Institute, Oxted
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Pigment Cell Research
11.25am Combination therapy of Topical Aldara and intralesion IL2 to treat persistant cutaneous
and subcutaneous melanoma deposits
Debbie Green, Research Registrar
11.40am Current status of immunotherapy and vaccines for melanoma
Prof. Angus Dalgleish
Consultant Oncologist
12.10pm Open session with Prof. Michael Richards
National Cancer Director
Presentation and Q&As
12.45pm LUNCH
1.30pm AGM for MSG members only
2.00pm IOG Guidelines for Melanoma and Non Melanoma Skin Cancer
Dafydd Roberts
2.20pm Microstaging of Sentinel lymph nodes and a new EORTC SNB trial
Prof. Martin Cook
2.40pm A 12 month audit of external melanoma cases at the Skin Cancer MDT
Hueng Chong, Consultant Histopathologist
2.55pm Video Conferenceing for MDTS
Steve Curling, Videomeeting Company
3.15pm Extended iliac node clearance in patients with melanoma using an endoscopic approach
Mr A Ali-Khan, SpR Plastic Surgery
Mr C Crundwell, Consultant Urologist
Mr C Stone, Consultant Plastic Surgeon
3.30pm St. George's Audit on drains following dissection
Jane Holden, CNS Plastic Surgery
3.45pm The Role of SNB in MUMP
Kelvin Ramsey, SpR Plastic Surgery
4.00pm Sentinel node biopsy:
the west of Scotland experience
Prof. Rona MacKie
4.30pm Joint Meeting of NCRI
and MSG
Chaired by Prof. Martin Gore
5.00pm END of MEETING