Toronto, Canada | July 8-11, 2009

Supportive Care Seminar

Sponsored by Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and International Society of Oral Oncology (ISOO)

Prevention and Management of Complications of Cancer Therapy

Saturday July 11, 2009: 13.00 – 18.30

Organized by Crispian Scully, IAOO Secretary General

A half day Supportive Care seminar will run after the IAOO conference. The programme is for the head and neck cancer support team, and has concise educational aims and objectives as follows:

  • to improve the head and neck cancer support team's understanding of oral cancer.
  • to update the head and neck cancer support team in contemporary oral cancer care complications and their prevention and care through didactic contributions from an international panel, with interactive discussion,  in a half day programme.

Following the seminar the head and neck cancer support team should understand the complications of treatments available for oral cancer, and their management

Programme Overview

13:00 Opening Remarks
13:15

Panel Disucssion 1: Oral Complications from radiation therapy

Moderator
David Wiesenfeld, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Chair
Brian O'Sullivan, Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada

Panelist - Acute complications from the oral cavity
Kian Ang, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Panelist - Late complications from the oral cavity
Jean Bourhis, Institut de cancérologie, France

Panelist - Prevention and management of xerostomia
Joel Epstein, University of Illinois, USA

Panelist - Prevention and management of osteordionecrosis
Alexander D. Rapidis, Greek Anitcancer Institut, Greece

14:45

Panel Discussion 2: Oral Complications from Chemotherapy

Chair
Arlene Forastiere, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA

Moderator
Marshall Posner, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA

Panelist - Mucositis: Etiopathogenetic factors and clinical characteristics
Jan Vermorken, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Panelist - Mucositis: Current treatment strategies
Stephen Sonis, Harvard Medicine, USA

Panelist - Bisphosphonates and jaw necrosis
Joseph Helman, University of Michigan, USA

Panelist - Late complications from the use of antineoplastic drugs
Alessandra Majorana, TBC, Italy

16:15 Coffee Break  
16:45

Panel Discussion 3: Oral health management of the oncologic patient

Chair
Merrill Kies, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Moderator
Lillian Siu, Princess Margaret hospital, Canada

Panelist - Dental complications from chemoradiation treatment
Debbie Saunders, Canada

Panelist - The use of dental implants in the post irradiated patient
David Wiesenfeld, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Panelist - oral and dental diseases associated with the treatment of hematologic malignancies
Judith Raber, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Panelist - Quality of life after chemoradiation for head and neck cancer
James Sciubba, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

18:15-18:30 Closing Remarks
                                                 

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