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Program

Wednesday 5th May – Current Concepts and Controversies (Sponsored by Biomet)

The aim of this day was to highlight several topics of current importance in Musculoskeletal Oncology and to discuss these, highlighting difference in opinion and allowing audience participation with voting pads.

Training Day Details

1000

Welcome and Introduction – Rob Grimer

 

1015 - 1100

Liposarcomas – a spectrum of disease

 

            Chair: Simon Carter

1015

            Pathology – Lars Gunnar Kindblom

1030

            Local Control and follow up – Alex Gronchi

1045

            Systemic therapy  - Ian Judson

1055

            Discussion

 

1100 -

Ewing’s Sarcoma of the Pelvis – Radiotherapy, Surgery or both?

1100-1105

            Chair: Lee Jeys

1105 - 1120

            Surgery – Georg Gosheger / Jendrik Hardes

1120 - 1135

            Radiotherapy -  David Spooner

1135 -1145

            Discussion

 

1145 -1210

Coffee break

 

1210 - 1300

Neoadjuvant Therapy for Soft Tissue Sarcomas – what and when?

1200 - 1205

            Chair: Mark Gebhardt

1205 - 1220

            Radiotherapy –  Henrik Bauer

1220 - 1235

            Chemotherapy – Jean Yves Blay

1235 - 1250

            Isolated Limb Perfusion – Andrew Hayes

1250 - 1300

            Discussion

1300 -1350

Lunch break

 

1350 - 1450

Limb salvage or amputation for bone sarcomas – what is safe?

1350 - 1355

           Chair: Stefano Ferrari

1355 - 1410

            When you have to amputate – Mark Gebhardt

1410 - 1425

            What are the risks of limb salvage – Seggy Abudu

1425 - 1440

            Rotationplasty   is a safe option!- Antonie Taminiau

1440 - 1450

            Discussion

 

1450 - 1535

The role of MTP-PE in osteosarcoma chemotherapy

1450 - 1455

            Chair: Bruce Morland

1455 - 1510

            It should be standard therapy for all !- Ian Lewis

1510 - 1525

            It remains an investigational drug ! – Stefan Bielack

1525 - 1535

            Discussion

1535 - 1600

Tea break

1600 - 1730

The management of advanced disease in sarcomas – when to treat and what with?

1600 -1605

            Chair: Henrik Bauer

1605 -1620

            Metastatectomy – indications and results -  Maninder Kalkat

1620 -1635

            Management of local recurrence – Lee Jeys


1635 - 1650
1650 - 1705

            Chemotherapy – when and what  -
                 Stefano Ferrari – Bone sarcomas
                 Ian Judson – Soft tissue sarcomas

1705 - 1720

            The patients view – Roger Wilson

1720 - 1730

            Discussion

 

END OF MEETING

Please hand in your assessment forms

 

 

1830

Reception at the Birmingham Sea Life Centre


 

Thursday 6th May – Friday 7th May Main EMSOS meeting

Presentations can be viewed by clicking on links next to the title.
 

 

Thursday 6th May 2010

 

0825 – Welcome Robert Grimer

 

0830 - Session 1 – Getting the Diagnosis Right

 

Chairs: David Spooner and Kirsten Sundby Hall

1.1

 

1.2

 
 

1.3


 

1.4

 

 

1.5

 

1.6
 
 

 

1.7

 

 

1.8

 

1.9

 

 

1.10 

 
 

1.11

 

 

 

1.12

 

 

 

08:30       ARE WE GETTING BETTER AT DIAGNOSING SARCOMAS? - View presentation

G Smith, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

08:35      THE SYMPTOM INTERVAL IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS

P.Daolio, Istituto Ortopedico G.Pini Milan, Italy

08:40      SARCOMA CENTRE DELAYS THREE TIMES AS LONG AS PATIENT’S DELAYS IN RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMAS - View presentation

JM Seinen, Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden

08:45       PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC EVALUATION OF CHOLINE: TUMOUR

               MARKER OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA?

Madhabananda Kar, Bhubaneswar, India.

09:00       WHAT DO ‘WORRYING’ BONES TURN OUT TO BE? - View presentation

A Malhas, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham UK 

09:05      IS DELAYED DIAGNOSIS RELATED TO EPIPHYSEAL INVASION AND/OR  OUTCOME IN PAEDIATRIC METAPHYSEAL OSTEOSARCOMA? A MULTICENTRIC STUDY - View presentation

B. Vázquez, University of Navarra, Spain

09:10      MULTIPLE OSTEOCHONDROMAS AND MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION: CLINICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES - View presentation

EJA Dootjes, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

09:15       THE DIAGNOSIS OF PRIMARY LONG BONE TUMORS BY EXPERT SYSTEMS.

NV Kochergina, Blokhin Oncology Research Center, Moscow, Russia

09:30       CHANGING CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF ANGIOSARCOMAS AFTER BREAST CANCER:FROM LATE TUMORS IN EDEMATOUS ARMS TO EARLIER TUMORS ON THE THORACIC WALL

E Styring, Lund University Hospital, Sweden.

09:35     TUMOURS OF THE HAND. A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF 142 CASES. - View presentation

F Machacek, Gersthof Orthopaedic Hospital, Austria

09:40      DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF WHOLE BODY PET-SCAN AND BONE SCAN FOR  STAGING

PATIENTS WITH EWING’S SARCOMA – EXPERIENCE IN 175 PATIENTS FROM A TERTIARY 

CARE CANCER CENTRE

S Gulia, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.

09:45     WIKIPEDIA AND OSTEOSARCOMA: AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMSOS - View presentation

A Leithner, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

 

1000 - Coffee break + Poster Viewing

 

 

 

1040 - Session 2 – Benign and Metastases

 

Chairs: Roger Tillman and Antonie Taminiau

2.1 

 

2.2 
 

 

2.3

 
 

2.4 

 

2.5

 
 

2.6


 

2.7 


 

2.8

10:40      ABC CAN EASILY BE TREATED WITH POLYDOCANOL - View presentation
 

                 O Brosjö, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
 

10:45       RESULTS OF RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION OF SPINAL OSTEOID OSTEOMAS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO NEUROLOGICAL STRUCTURES.

JJ Gregory, Oswestry, Shropshire, UK.

10:50         EFFICACY OF ZOLEDRONIC ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF BENIGN OSTEOLYTIC BONE LESIONS - View presentation
 

SK Garg, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
 

10:55         PHOTOCHEMICAL INTERNALIZATION (PCI) AS AN ADJUNCT TO INTRALESIONAL SURGERY IN A HUMAN SARCOMA MODEL


O-J Norum,
The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway
 

11:10         MUSCLE SPECIFIC MICRORNAS CAN DISTINGUISH RHABDOMYOSARCOMA FROM OTHER PEDIATRIC TUMORS.

M Miyachi, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

11:15         SELECTIVE EMBOLIZATION OF BONE METASTASES WITH N-2-BUTYL

                 CYANOACRYLATE: 309 PROCEDURES IN 7 YEARS


P.Ruggieri, University of Bologna, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
 

11:20        PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR SURVIVAL AFTER SURGERY OF METASTATIC

                 SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION - View presentation


PDS Dijkstra,
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Hague, The Netherlands
 

11:25        THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF MANAGING METASTATIC BONE TUMOURS

                 ON THE PROVISION OF TRAUMA SERVICES - View presentation


A Gulati,
Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK

 

 

 

 

1145 - EMSOS Lecture – Chair Roger Tillman

 

  Prof Rob Coleman - Bone Targeted Therapy in Malignancy

 

 

 

1230 - 1330 LUNCH

 

 

 

1330 – Invited lecture – Chair Robert Grimer

 

Prof Mark Gebhardt – The role of bone allografts in 2010

 

 

 

1400 - Session 3 – Chondrosarcoma and new techniques

 

Chairs: Bass Hassan and Pietro Ruggieri

 3.1



 

3.2

 

3.3


 

3.4


 

3.5
 

 
 

3.6

 

3.7


 

3.8




 

3.9

 

3.10

14:00        GALECTIN-1 IS A POWERFUL MARKER TO DISTINGUISH CHONDROBLASTIC OSTEOSARCOMA AND CONVENTIONAL CHONDROSARCOMA - View presentation


A Gomez-Brouchet,
Rangueil Hospital, Toulouse, France
 

14:05        CHARACTERIZATION OF RARE CHONDROSARCOMA SUBTYPES

JVMG Bovée, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

14:10        BCL2 INHIBITION SENSITIZES CHONDROSARCOMA TO CONVENTIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY IN VITRO


JG van Oosterwijk,
Department of Pathology, Leiden, The Netherlands
 

14:15        CHONDROSARCOMA OF THE CHEST WALL: PRIMARY DIAGNOSTICS IS DECISIVE FOR OUTCOME


HCF Bauer, B Widhe
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, SWEDEN

 

14:20        6,5 -YEARS CLINICAL FOLLOW-UP OF NINETY PATIENTS WITH LOW-GRADE CENTRAL CHONDROSARCOMA OF LONG BONES, TREATED WITH INTRALESIONAL CURETTAGE FOLLOWED BY PHENOL, ETHANOL AND BONE GRAFTING


SHM Verdegaal,
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
 

14:35        CRYOSURGERY FOR LOW GRADE INTRAMEDULLARY CHONDROSARCOMA


Y Gortzak,
Tel-Aviv "Sourasky" Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

14:40        CURETTAGE AND CEMENTATION OF LOW GRADE CHONDROSARCOMAS

Murat Hýz,,Departments of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Pathology Cerrahpaþa Faculty of Medicine, Ýstanbul, Turkey
 

14:45        EN-BLOC RESECTION, EXTRACORPOREAL IRRADIATION, AND RE-IMPLANTATION IN LIMB SALVAGE FOR BONY MALIGNANCIES.  RESULTS FROM THE FIRST 50 CASES AT A MEAN OF 8.5 YEARS.


WJS Aston,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney,
 

14:50        DIAPHYSEAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH EXTRACORPOREAL IRRADIATED AUTOGENOUS TUMOR BONE - View presentation


A Gulia,
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.
 

14:55        EXTRACORPOREAL IRRADIATION AND REIMPLANTATION OF BONE  -  WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN’T! - View presentation


S Mottard,
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 

 

 

 

1510 - Afternoon Tea

 

 

 

1530

 

        Poster Discussion 1 – Chairs – Yehuda Kollender and team

 

 

 

1600 - Session 4 – Pelvis and Humerus – what works?

 4.1



 

4.2

 

 

4.3

 

4.4

 

 

4.5

 

 

4.6

 
 

4.7 

 

4.8

 16:00        PROXIMAL HUMERUS RECONSTRUCTION AFTER TUMOUR RESECTION: COMPARING BOTH OSTEOARTICULAR ALLOGRAFT, ENDOPROSTHESIS AND BOTH COMBINED - View presentation


Michiel AJ van de Sande,
Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

 

16:05        FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF PROXIMAL HUMERAL RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING TUMOUR RESECTION. ENDOPROSTHESIS VERSUS SHOULDER ARTHRODESIS USING VASCULARIZED AUTOGRAFT - View presentation


WA Ebeid,
Orthopaedic Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
 

16:10        REPLACEMENT OF THE PROXIMAL HUMERUS WITH MUTARS TUMOR ENDOPROSTHESES


B Lehner,
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
 

16:15        PROXIMAL HUMERUS RECONSTRUCTION IN BONE TUMOR SURGERY: OSTEOARTICULAR ALLOGRAFTS VS ALLOGRAFT-PROSTHESIS COMPOSITES


DA Campanacci,
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
 

16:30        EWING SARCOMA OF THE BONY PELVIS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TUMOURS LOCALIZED TO THE SACRUM AND THE HIP BONES. THE SCANDINAVIAN SARCOMA GROUP EXPERIENCE - View presentation

Asle Hesla, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

16:35        PELVIC EWING'S SARCOMA: OUR EXPERIENCE AND EVALUATION OF PROGNOSTIC FACTORS - View presentation


A Dramis,
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK
 

16:40        LONG-TERM CLINICAL RESULTS OF SADDLE PROSTHESIS AFTER RESECTION OF PERIACETABULAR TUMORS - View presentation


J.A. Jansen,
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
 

16:45        OUTCOMES OF PRIMARY BONE TUMOURS OF THE PELVIS - THE ROH EXPERIENCE


L Jeys, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 

 

 

 

1700 - End

 

 

 

1830 - Depart for gala dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 7th May 2010

 

 

 

0830 – EMSOS Business meeting

 

0900 - Session 5 – Osteosarcoma  - improving outcomes

 

 Chairs: Stefan Bielack and Judith Bovee

5.1
 

 

5.2 

 
 

5.3 

 

 

5.4
 

 

5.5

 
 

5.6

  

5.7

 
 

5.8

09:00    OUR EXPERIENCE OF NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT IN METASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA AT PRESENTATION - View presentation

              G. Machak, N.N. Blokhin Cancer Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

 09:05     LONG-TERM RESULTS OF NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT OF STAGE IIB OSTEOSARCOMA OF THE   EXTREMITIES - View presentation

Machak G, N.N. Blokhin Cancer Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

 09:10     LONG—TERM RESULTS IN CHILDREN BONE SARCOMA PATIENTS TREATED BY DISTAL   FEMUR MEGAPROSTHESES - View presentation

Marco Manfrini, IV Clinica Ortopedica a indirizzo Oncologico, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

 09:15     AGE-SPECIFIC RECRUITMENT VARIATIONS IN A LARGE INTERGROUP OSTEOSARCOMA STUDY, EURAMOS-1 (NCT00134030)

Stefan Bielackz, Olgahospital, Stuttgart

 09:30     OSTEOSARCOMA WITH POOR NECROSIS AND CLOSE MARGINS - AMPUTATION OR LIMB SALVAGE? - View presentation

Simon Carter, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 09:35     PRIMARY BONE TUMOURS - HOW CLOSE IS ACCEPTABLE?

              Lee Jeys, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 09:40     LONG TERM RESULTS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC NON-INVASIVE EXPANDABLE PROSTHESE, AFTER RESECTION OF THE KNEE IN 27 CHILDREN

E Mascard, Hospital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, France

 09:45     ENHANCEMENT OF RADIATION RESPONSE IN OSTEOSARCOMA AND      RHABOMYOSARCOMA CELL LINES BY HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITION - View presentation

C Blattmann, University Children´s Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany

 

 

 

1000 - Coffee break + poster viewing

 

 

 

1040 - Session 6 – Surgical options – what works and what doesn’t?

 

         Chairs: Simon Carter and Domenico Campanacci

6.1 


 

6.2


 

6.3


 

6.4 

 

6.5 

 

6.6

 

 

6.7
 

 

6.8

10:40     SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BONE TUMOURS OF THE PROXIMAL FIBULA


Dieckmann, Department of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics,University of Münster, Germany
 

10:45     WHAT TREATMENT IN SARCOMAS OF THE FOOT: CONSERVATION OR AMPUTATION? ABOUT 54 TUMOURS OF THE FRENCH SARCOMA GROUP GSF-GETO.


E Mascard,
Hospital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, France

 

10:50     EWING’S SARCOMA LOCAL RECURRENCE - PREDICTABLE OR PREVENTABLE? - View presentation


CR Chandrasekar,
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 

10:55     EXTRA-ARTICULAR RESECTION OF BONE TUMOURS


Lee Jeys,
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

 

11:10     KNEE ARTHRODESIS WITH A MODULAR PROSTHESIS SYSTEM: RESULTS AND COMPLICATIONS IN PRIMARY AND REVISION IMPLANTS


P Ruggieri,
University of Bologna, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

 

11:15     COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ENDOPROSTHETIC REPLACEMENT AND HIP

              ARTHRODESIS USING A VASCULARIZED FIBULAR GRAFT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF  MALIGNANT TUMOURS OF THE PROXIMAL FEMUR - View presentation


H Wafa,
Cairo University, Egypt

 

11:20     EFFECTIVENESS OF INTRAVENOUS BISPHOSPHONATE IN TREATMENT OF LOCAL RECURRENCES GIANT CELL TUMORS. - View presentation


S Dadia,
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

11:25     OSSEOINTEGRATION IN TRANSFEMORAL AMPUTEES: THE GOTHENBURG EXPERIENCE.


Ö Berlin,
Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgren University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

 

 

 

1145 - Campanacci Lecture

 

  Prof J Y Blay  - Improving collaboration across Europe for sarcoma research and care

 

 

 

1230 - 1330  LUNCH

 

 

 

1330

 

Poster Discussion 2 – Chairs – Otte Brosjo and team

 

 

 

1400 - Session 7 – The longer term results

 

Chairs: Ramses Forsyth and Bruce Morland

7.1
 

 

7.2

 

7.3


 

7.4


 

7.5

 

7.6

 

 

7.7
 

 

7.8

 
 

7.9

 

 

7.10 

 
 

7.11

 

 

7.12

14:00     A SIMPLE PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM FOR NON METASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA OF THE EXTREMITY - View presentation

S. Ferrari, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna Italy  

14:05     RISK BASED FOLLOW-UP PROTOCOL FOR PATIENTS WITH OSTEOSARCOMA

               Long J, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

14:10     PRE-OPERATIVE SERUM C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IS AN INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTOR FOR SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH OSTEOSARCOMA

              PT Funovics, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria

14:15     SARCOMA DEVELOPMENT AFTER CURETTAGE AND BONE GRAFTS OF BENIGN BONE LESIONS

              P Picci, Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

14:30     TARGETING SSX IN SARCOMA

              Barry Wolahan, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

14:35     SYNOVIAL SARCOMAS USUALLY METASTASIZE AFTER MORE THAN FIVE YEARS: A MULTICENTER, RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS WITH MINIMUM FOLLOW-UP OF 10 YEARS FOR SURVIVORS

               AH Krieg, Children’s University and University Hospital Basel, Inselspital Bern

14:40     REDUCTION OF BONE MINERAL DENSITY AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BONE SARCOMAS

              U Pirker-Frühauf, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

14:45     EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH RESECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UPPER OR LOWER LIMB FOR BONE SARCOMAS

              P Ruggieri, University of Bologna, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

15:00     PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR LOCAL RECURRENCE AND SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS: A CONSECUTIVE SERIES OF 2445 PATIENTS TREATED FOR STS

              Lee Jeys, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

15:05     EXTRASKELETAL OSTEOSARCOMA: CLINICO-PATHOLOGIC FEATURES AND RESULTS OF MULTIMODAL MANAGEMENT - View presentation

               N. Fabbri, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

15:10     LATE COMPLICATIONS AFTER EXCISION OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA OF EXTREMITIES WITH OR WITHOUT RADIOTHERAPY: THE EXPERIENCE OF DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC ONCOLOGY IN FLORENCE

               G. Beltrami, Human Pathology and   Radiotherapy, AOUC, CTO, Florence, Italy

15:15     INFECTIONS IN ORTHOPEDIC ONCOLOGY: INCIDENCE, TREATMENT AND OUTCOME.

              P Ruggieri, University of Bologna, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

 

 

 

1530 - EMSOS 2011 – Ramses Forsyth

 

1540 -  Prizes and awards

 

1600 - Vale

 

  

Thursday 6th May Nurses Conference


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