COSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2013 — ASN Events

COSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2013 — ASN Events

Tuesday 12 November	Wednesday 13 November	Thursday 14 November
07:00 - 17:30 Registration desk opens 07:00 - 08:20 Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Cancer pain management guidelines COSA Breakfast Session: e-tools for geriatric assessment with Janine Overcash Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Oral chemotherapy: Improving quality of life for advanced cancer patients	07:00 - 17:30 Registration desk opens 07:00 - 08:45 COSA Breakfast Session: Guidelines on pre-exercise screening and exercise prescription in the oncology setting workshop with Lee Jones Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: "VOYCE" breakfast meeting Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Handling hazardous drugs, safety with savings	07:00 - 14:00 Registration desk opens 07:00 - 08:45 Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: New treatment paradigms in the management of mCRC Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Optimising treatment for BRAF mutation positive metastatic melanoma patients Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Implementation of the National Cancer Workforce Strategic Framework (NCWSF)
08:30 - 09:00 Official Welcome and Opening
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary: The burden of cancer in the elderly	09:00 - 10:30 Plenary: The changing face of oesophageal cancer: Moving towards individualised care	09:00 - 10:30 Plenary: Conundrums in colorectal cancer
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea and Poster viewing	10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea and Poster viewing	10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 - 12:30 Practice pearls: What is different when dealing with the older patient Exercise and cancer How do we support the delivery of quality cancer care? Building bridges between coal face delivery, service providers, management and government Cancer 2015 – Cross-disciplinary research of a genomic cancer cohort Best of the Best Orals: Basic and Translational	11:00 - 12:30 Recent advances in the management of upper gastro-intestinal cancer treatment Cognition: Ageing and treatment Familial gastric cancer: Management challenges Best of the Best Orals: Epidemiology Best of the Best Orals: Education	11:00 - 12:30 Let's talk about sex Colorectal cancer in the elderly Palliative care - therapeutic interventions and models of care Cancer care in the context of comorbidity Best of the Best Orals: Health services
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch	12:30 - 13:30 Lunch COSA members Annual General Meeting	12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Plenary: Evidence based cancer management in older patients	13:30 - 15:00 Plenary - Managing hepatobillary and pancreatic cancers: Challenging cases	13:30 - 14:30 COSA Presidential Lecture
		14:30 - 15:45 Hot Topic Debate - The older you are the less you get
15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon tea, Best of the Best Posters and Poster viewing Posters - Basic and Translational Posters - Clinical research Posters - Education Posters - Health services	15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon tea, Best of the Best Posters and Poster viewing Posters - Epidemiology Posters - Supportive care Posters - Gastro-intestinal cancers Posters - Geriatric oncology Posters - Service provision Posters - Trials in progress
15:15 - 15:45 Best of the Best Posters: Health services Best of the Best Posters: Researching cancer treatments	15:15 - 15:45 Best of the Best Posters: Supporting cancer patients Best of the Best Posters: Cancer side effects and symptoms
		15:45 - 16:00 Conference close
16:00 - 17:30 Medicine matters in the older cancer patient Where to care? Advances in nutrition and cancer Managing the knowledge base for oncology Best of the Best Orals: Clinical research Best of the Best Orals: Gastro-intestinal cancers	16:00 - 17:30 Breast cancer and genetic testing -clinical practice points Fine wine: The old and the new in prostate cancer Outcomes versus access, who is most vulnerable? A ‘wicked’ issue for cancer surgery in Australia Best of the Best Orals: Geriatric oncology Best of the Best Orals: Supportive care
17:30 - 19:00 Welcome Function and Luminous Awards	17:30 - 18:30 Evening meetings 17:30 - 21:30 COSA Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:30 Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Advanced energy Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Changing paradigms in advanced prostate cancer Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Immunotherapy in melanoma - a new age of immune activation