Advanced Course on the Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases

15 - 17 October 2012, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

Organised with the support of Institut Bergonié, Roche, Merck Serono and Bracco International

Faculty

Serge Evrard, Professor of Surgery, Digestive Tumours Unit, Institut Bergonié/University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Thomas Gruenberger, Head of the Hepatobiliary Service, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Peter Naredi, Professor of Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Graeme Poston, Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Divisional Medical Director and Chairman of the Division of Surgery, University Hospital Aintree (UHA), Liverpool, UK
Michel Rivoire, Professor of Surgery, Co-ordinator of the Department of Surgery, Centre Régional Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
Theo Ruers, Professor of Surgery, Head of the Division of Surgical Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Invited speakers

Gregoire Desolneux, Surgical Oncologist, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
Jean Palussiere, Radiologist, Department of Medical Imaging, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
Veronique Vendrely, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital, Bordeaux, France

Aim of the Advanced Course

The advanced course will provide an answer to the following questions:

• How do I manage the patient's preoperative assessment?
• How do neoadjuvant or induction chemotherapy impact on our approach to CRMs?
• How do I use and optimise ultrasound guided CRM surgery?
• Do I clamp the pedicle or not?
• How do I transect the liver parenchyma?
• Do I prefer anatomical to non anatomical resections?
• How do I manage very large CRMs?
• How do I practice intraoperative radiofrequency ablation?
• How do I manage a two-stage procedure?
• How do I manage missing metastases?
• How do I manage the primary tumour with synchronous CRMs?
• Do I know the place of the other regional therapies or targeted radiotherapies?

Programme & Faculty

Download the advanced course flyer ( 2012-01-30 09:43:42)

• Plenary lectures, workshops
• Multidisciplinary approach
• Live transmission of liver procedures

Institut Bergonié/Université de Bordeaux    229 cours de l'Argonne  33076 BORDEAUX - FRANCE

Registration fee

475 EUR for members (minimum 1 year membership)
600 EUR for non-members
Participation fee includes the registration to the course and 3 nights accommodation on a half-board basis

Application Procedure

Application must include:

• Complete Application Form
• Letter describing motivation for attending
• Short CV (maximum 2 pages)

Download the application form

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Course Accommodation

IBIS Bordeaux Centre Meriadeck
35, Cours du Marechal Juin
33000 BORDEAUX - France

Accreditation

The Advanced Course will be accredited by the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE).

Course Secretariat

European Society of Surgical Oncology
Avenue E. Mounier 83
B 1200 Brussels
Tel: +32 2 5373106
Fax: +32 2 5390374
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