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International Lung Cancer Congress

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International Congress for Lung Cancer October 3-4, 2008
 7:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Registrations  
 7:55 AM Welcome and Introductions Chandra P. Belani, MD  
Keynote Lectures Session Chair:
Chandra P. Belani, MD
 8:00 AM Screening for Lung Cancer: An Overview Edward Patz, MD 
 8:30 AM Locally Advanced Non?Small-Cell Lung Cancer:
Implications of SWOG 9504, S0023, and the HOG Studies
Walter Curran, MD  
 9:00 AM Adjuvant Therapy of NSCLC:
Consensus/ Controversies and Staging Disease
 Harvey Pass, MD
EGFR and VEGF Targeted Agents Session Chair: Suresh Ramalingam, MD
 9:30 AM Erlotinib: Present Status and Future Perspectives,
Molecular Markers and Patient Selection
 Roman-Perez Soler, MD
 10:00 AM Panel Discussion  
 10:15 AM Break  
 10:30 AM Advanced and Metastatic Non?Small-Cell Lung Cancer:
Implications of Bevacizumab
 Ronald Natale, MD
 11:00 AM Other VEGF Targeted Agents and Multikinase
Inhibitors in the Treatment of Lung Cancer
 Suresh Ramalingam, MD
 11:30 AM Panel Discussion  
 11:45 AM Lunch  
International Forum on Cooperative Groups
 12:45 PM ECOG  Chandra P. Belani, MD
 1:15 PM SWOG  Ronald Natale, MD
 1:45 PM RTOG  Walter Curran, MD
 2:15 PM CALGB  Ramaswamy Govindan, MD
 3:45 PM Panel Discussion  
 3:00 PM Closing Remarks and Adjourn  Chandra P. Belani, MD
 Saturday - October 4, 2008
 7:00 AM Continental Breakfast  
 7:55 AM Welcome and Introductions  Chandra P. Belani, MD
Lung Cancer: State of the Art Session Chair: Ronald Natale, MD
 8:00 AM Non-Small cell lung cancer: State of the Art and Histology Interactions  Ramaswamy Govindan, MD
 8:30 AM Small?Cell Lung Cancer: Novel Agents and Recent Advances  Ronald Natale, MD
 9:00 AM Non?Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Second Line Therapy and Special Populations  Corey Langer, MD
 9:30 AM Women and Lung Cancer  Suresh Ramalingam, MD
 10:00 AM Panel Discussion  
 10:15 AM Brack  
Emerging Novel Agents and Supportive Care Issues Session Chair : Fadlo Khuri, MD
 10:30 AM Supportive Care Issues in Lung Cancer  Jeffrey Crawford, MD
 11:00 AM Novel Agents: nab-Paclitaxel,
Bortezomib and HDAC Inhibitors
 Chandra Belani, MD
 11:30 AM Emerging Novel Agents in Lung Cancer
TRAIL and mTOR Inhibitors, MEK Inhibitors,
AKT Inhibitors and IGF-IR Antibodies and small molecules,
c-met Inhibitors
 Fadlo Khuri, MD
 12:00 PM Panel Discussion  
 12:15 PM Closing Remarks and Adjourn  Chandra P. Belani, MD