01 Aug Scientific Summits conference — Lokeren, 18 & 19 October 2024
We have the honour and the pleasure to invite you to our second Scientific Summits conference of 2024, which will take place on Friday October 18th & Saturday October 19th.
TOP SPEAKERS, TOP CONTENT
We are proud to once again offer a top scientific program, with excellent Belgian and international key opinion leaders. The program combines case-based discussions and interactive overviews of important novelties in the field of urothelial, prostate and kidney cancer.
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 October 2024
Live meeting
The Chocolate Box - Barry Callebaut, Ambachtenstraat 2, 9160 Lokeren, Belgium
Program – Scientific Summits
Friday October 18th
12h30 – 14h00
Lunch and WELCOME
14h00 – 15h45
Prostate cancer
14h00 – 14h15 Case presentation and multidisciplinary advice.
Speaker: Dr. Kato Rans, Radiation Oncology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
14h15 – 14h45 The EMBARK trial and implications for clinical practice.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stephen J Freedland – Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, USA
14h45 – 15h00 Interactive discussion
15h00 – 15h20 Treatment de-intensification in castration-sensitive prostate cancer
Speaker: Dr. Guillaume Grisay, Medical Oncology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
15h20 – 15h35 Interactive discussion
15h35 – 16h00
Coffee break
16h00 – 17h45
16h00 – 16h25 EMBARK: How does PSMA fit in?
Speaker: Dr. Kathia De Man, Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.
16h25 – 16h35 Let’s come back to the case
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gert De Meerleer, Radiation Oncology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
16h35 – 16h55 Interactive discussion
Panel:
Dr. Peter Schatteman, Urology, OLV Aalst, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Steven Joniau, Urology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Roderick van den Bergh, Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Prof. Dr. Christof Vulsteke, Medical Oncology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
16h55 – 17h20 Screening and early PCA detection: ready for prime time?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roderick van den Bergh, Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
17h20 – 17h35 Interactive discussion
Panel:
Dr. Bart De Troyer, Urology, VITAZ, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
Dhr. Erik Briers, Wij Ook, Patient organisation, Belgium.
Dr. Thomas Adams, Urology, ZAS, Antwerp, Belgium.
17h45 – 18h45
Satellite symposium by Janssen Pharmaceutica
Satellite symposium: “What does efficacy mean in mHSPC?”
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Axel Merseburger , Chairman of the Clinic of Urology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck, Germany.
19h00
Networking Reception & Congress Dinner
Saturday October 19th
09h30 – 10h00
Bladder cancer
09h30 – 09h50 Neo-adjuvant immunotherapy: what’s the status?
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Meyskens, Medical Oncology, AZ Klina, Brasschaat, Belgium.
9h50 – 10h00 Interactive discussion
Panel:
Dr. Thomas Adams, Urology, Urology, ZAS, Antwerp, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Christof Vulsteke, Medical Oncology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Maarten Albersen, Urology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
10h00 – 10h40 Rare tumors: what’s new?
10h00 – 10h25 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Maarten Albersen, Urology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
10h25 – 10h40 Interactive discussion
Panel:
Dr. Bernard Bynens, Urology, ZOL, Belgium.
Dr. Thomas Adams, Urology, Urology, ZAS, Antwerp, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Christof Vulsteke, Medical Oncology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
10h40 – 11h00
Coffee break
11h00 – 11h30
Single-port surgery in uro-oncology
11h00 – 11h20 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker, Urology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
Panel:
Dr. Bernard Bynens, Urology, ZOL, Belgium.
Dr. Thomas Adams, Urology, Urology, ZAS, Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr. Frederic Baekelandt, Urology, Sint-Jan Brugge, Belgium.
11h30 – 13h00
The EAU guidelines: what has changed in the guidelines and why?
11h30 – 11h50 Prostate cancer
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gert De Meerleer, on behalf of the EAU Guidelines Committee panel on prostate cancer.
11h50 – 12h05 Interactive discussion
12h05 – 12h25 Kidney cancer
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Bex, Urology, AvL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Christof Vulsteke, Medical Oncology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
12h25 – 12h40 Interactive discussion
Panel:
Prof. Dr. Steven Joniau, Urology, Urology, Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Christof Vulsteke, Medical Oncology, Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Engels, Benedikt Engels, Radiation Oncology, OLV Aalst, Belgium.
Dr. Frederic Baekelandt, Urology, Sint-Jan Brugge, Belgium.
12h40 – 13h00
Closing remarks