Pre-conference workshops
Tuesday, 10 November
- Surgical workshop (Sponsored by Storz)
- Fundamentals of clinical research (Supported by University of Chicago
Office of Clinical Research and the Global Health Initiative)
- Pathology
- Cancer epidemiology (Supported by Institut Català d'Oncologia (Spain))
- Palliative care for cancer in Africa (Supported by Open Society Institute)
- Prevention of cervical cancer (Supported by World Health Organization (WHO))
1. Surgical workshop (Sponsored by Storz)
2. Fundamentals of clinical research (Supported by
University of Chicago Office of Clinical Research and the Global Health Initiative)
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Office of Clinical Research
and the Global Health Initiative, the pre-conference workshop Fundamentals of
Clinical Research will provide the educational content to train research staff on
compliant research activity. The workshop is ideal for physicians, nurses, research
assistants, medical students, and all other research staff who are interested in
understanding the fundamentals of conducting clinical research. Led by renowned researchers
from around the world, this workshop offers practical sessions to improve human subject
protection, data integrity, protocol adherence and scientific integrity. Sessions in this
workshop include the evolution of Good Clinical Practice (GCP), recruitment of study
participants, informed consent, document management, scientific integrity, conflict management,
among others.
3. Pathology
The pathology pre-conference workshop promises to be an informative
and educational experience for the pathologist and the clinical / surgical oncologist.
The morning session commences with an overview of the evolution of diagnostic oncologic
pathology including new developments and applications that are already changing the practice
of pathology and clearly poised to set the standard for personalized medicine and the future
practice of clinical oncology presented by Dr Adesina who has many years of experience in
both surgical and molecular pathology.
This is followed by a session on the challenges of tissue collection for state of
the art research studies in low resource environment given by Dr Nelson, Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology and Dr Adesina, Baylor College of Medicine. Clinically interesting
cases that illustrate the spectrum of challenges in day to day practice on the continent
will be presented by Professor Ekanem,University of Calabar, Professor Akang, University
of Ibadan and Professor Diomande Isidore, UFR Sciences Medicales, Ivory Coast,
respectively. Dr Thomas-Ogunniyi, Lousiana State University will present her experience
on the applications of cytopathology and fine needle aspiration in low resource settings.
The afternoon session will be devoted to the pathology of two clinically important oncologic
disorders including the pathology of breast carcinoma and prostate carcinoma. These
will be presented by Dr Brogi, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dr Ayala,
Baylor College of Medicine, respectively, who come with special expertise and experience
in these two areas.
4. Cancer epidemiology (Supported by Institut Català
d'Oncologia (Spain))
This pre-conference Cancer Epidemiology workshop aims to introduce
worldwide cancer statistics, cancer data resources as well as to e-learning programs
on cancer epidemiology and prevention. The conference will provide a general overview of
the major burden and etiological causes of cancer that would allow participants to
understand the need of qualified population based information. A special emphasis will
be devoted to have practical training in the use of two web based resources: the WHO/ICO
HPV Information Centre on HPV and Cervical Cancer (IC) and the Globocan as useful
resources for those in need of accurate and comprehensive cancer data. Future online
courses on epidemiology and health promotion will also be presented.
- The IC is developed to accelerate the development and introduction of prophylactic
HPV vaccines in countries with the highest burden of cervical cancer and reduce
the incidence of this disease and related lesions among women. The new updated IC
includes a wide range of epidemiological and demographic information related to
HPV related cancers (i.e. cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, oral cavity and pharynx).
Participants will be able to extract and discuss the use of the country/region based
data.
- The Globocan website provides access to information on the most recent estimates of the
cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence, by sex and cancer site, for all the countries
of the world. Participants will be requested to extract specific data and provide points
for discussion and data interpretation.
- The e-oncologia platform has provided an important source of e-learning in Europe
and latin-American countries. It is expected to launch some courses in French and in
English languages during 2009. Selected courses related to cancer epidemiology, methods
and prevention will be presented and discussed.
5. Palliative care for cancer in Africa
(Supported by Open Society Institute)
Palliative care is required for 90% of cancer patients in Africa today.
Suffering is huge because of the limited availability of chemo and radiotherapy and the
economic circumstances of most countries. Cancer suffering has increased because of the
HIV epidemic.
AORTIC brings together internationally renowned speakers such as Twalib
Ngoma of ORCI, Tanzania and President of AORTIC, Faith Mwangi Powell of APCA, , Liz Gwyther
of HPCA and University of Cape town and Jim Cleary of Madison, USA, Jimmy Holland of NY and
Sabine Perrier-Bonnet of France, peripatetic trainer in Francophone countries, together
with up and coming speakers and leaders from new initiatives, telling us of the successes
and challenges in Africa today. These come from Malawi, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria,
Tunisia and Tanzania.
Although the formal papers will cover service delivery and education
programmes from the community volunteers to the University Programmes available in Africa
today, there will be time for discussion and sharing of adaptation of palliative care to
the varied cultural needs we find in Africa.
This meeting has 4 sessions in palliative care. There are two in the
pre conference sessions on 10th November and a further two in the main conference on 12th.
There is a further breakfast session on 14th covering care of families.
Palliative care for cancer is the only affordable relief for the
suffering of most African patients today. Working hand in hand with oncologists is the
way forward. The main session on November 14th will bring oncologists and palliative
care teams together to give the best care to our patients.
6. Prevention of cervical cancer
(Supported by World Health Organization (WHO))
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