22nd BSMO Annual Meeting 2020

BSMO Annual Meeting 2020

Scientific Programme – Friday 14 & Saturday 15 February 2020
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Dear colleagues and friends,
We cordially invite you to the 22^nd Annual Meeting of the BSMO, the annual opportunity to gather as a community, exchange ideas and engage in cooperation. This year, we have adapted the schedule of the meeting: while maintaining the major topics, we have tried to concentrate topics of clinical relevance on Saturday. Abstracts on any topic are welcome and you don’t have to be a junior member to submit, as long as you feel like one. For educational purposes junior members will have priority for oral presentations. Challenging and educational case reports which relate to new therapies will also be considered.

Looking forward to meet you at this exciting meeting on February 14 and 15!

Peter Vuylsteke, President
Sylvie Rottey, President elect
Joelle Collignon, Vice President

Preliminary programme

Friday 14 february 2020:
09:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Breast cancer task force
Chairs: Luc Dirix, AZ Sint-Augustinus, Antwerp & Kevin Punie, UZ Leuven
Optimal adjuvant endocrine treatment in premenopausal patients with HR+/HER2-negative breast cancer
Insights from clinical trials: Francois Duhoux, UC Louvain
Panel discussion: Panel members: Francois Duhoux, Guy Jerusalem, Jeroen Mebis, Hannelore Denys
Neoadjuvant treatment considerations in HER2-positive breast cancer
Insights from clinical trials: Evandro De Azambuja, Institut Jules Bordet
Gene expression profiling in early breast cancer in the context of the Belgian
pilot project: D. Taylor
Discussion (moderated by chairs Luc Dirix & Kevin Punie) 
12:00 General assembly and lunch
13:30-15:30 News in specific areas
Chairs: Willem Lybaert, AZ Sint-Niklaas & Joëlle Collignon, CHU de Liège
13:30 Onco-geriatrics – Lore Decoster, UZ Brussel
14:00 EORTC real life data – Lifang Liu, EORTC
14:30  HCC – Ivan Borbath, UCL
15:00 Cardio-oncology – Marie Moonen, CHU de Liege
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Proferred papers by junior members
Chairs: Annemie Rutten, GZA Antwerp & Wim Demey AZ Klina, Brasschaat
17:30 Summary and closing
18:30 Visit of Gent (pre-registration mandatory)
19:30 Walking Dinner (pre-registration mandatory)

Saturday 15 february 2020:
08:30 Registration & Coffee
08:45 BSMO supportive Taskforce (for members of the taskforce)
09:15 – 10:45 General session
Chair: Jolanda Verheezen, St. Trudo, Sint-Truiden
09:15 Hematology for the medical oncologist – Stef Meers, AZ Klina
09:45 NGS – Kathleen Claes, and Joni Van Der Meulen, UZ Gent
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 Precision trials of the BSMO
Chair: Jacques De Grève, UZ Brussel
Lore Decoster, UZ Brussel & Philippe Aftimos, Institut Jules Bordet
Sofie Joris, UZ Brussel
11:35 – 12:15 Activities of different BSMO task forces
Chair: Michael Ignatidis, Institut Jules Bordet
Urology – Sylvie Rottey, UZ Gent
Quality – Didier Verhoeven, AZ Klina, Brasschaat
Sarcoma – Christine Gennigens, CHU de Liege
Cancer survivorship & supportive care – Christel Fontaine, UZ Brussel
Hereditary cancer syndromes – Kevin Punie, UZ Leuven
12:15 – 12:45 Keynote lecture: Genomic Profiling
Chair: Sylvie Rottey, UZ Gent
Speaker: Christine Desmedt, UZ Leuven
12:45 Pfizer Award – Results of winning project 2017 (CHU Namur)
Chair: Evandro De Azambuja, Institut Jules Bordet
13:00 Junior awards
Chair: Annemie Rutten, GZA Antwerp & Wim Demey AZ Klina, Brasschaat
13:30 Sandwich lunch

Registration 
Please use this link to register for this meeting.

Abstract submission is no longer possible. Invited speakers are welcome to submit their abstract / summary of their lecture via the following link.

New venue location

Cultuur – en Congrescentrum Het Pand

Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent, België

Sponsor information

Interested in becoming a sponsor of the BSMO Annual Meeting 2020, please contact Congress Care || mr. Pepijn Klerkx, via e-mail at: p.klerkx@congresscare.com 

Disclaimer: sponsoring is not used for funding of social and/or entertaining acitivites.