03 Dec Scientific Summits conference — Mechelen, 18 & 19 June 2021
We have the honour and the pleasure to invite you to our first Scientific Summits conference of 2021, which will take place on Friday 18 & Saturday 19 June in the beautiful Van Der Valk Hotel in Mechelen.
Register your seat today, it will undoubtedly be an event not to be missed!
LIVE PRESENCE & ONLINE STREAM
We will welcome as many guests as possible, live in Mechelen, obviously taking into account the corona measures applicable at that moment.
To give everyone the opportunity to attend the conference, all sessions will also be recorded and broadcasted online with the help of a high profile technical partner, enabling speakers, attendees & experts to discuss in a virtual ZOOM conference room.
TOP SPEAKERS, TOP CONTENT
As usual, we are proud to once again offer a varied program, with top key opinion leaders & international experts, offering insights into important novelties in the field of urothelial, prostate and kidney cancer.
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 June 2021
Van Der Valk Hotel in Mechelen, Belgium
Hybrid meeting
Scientific program
Friday 18 June 2021
12:00
Lunch (COVID proof)
13:15 – 13:20
Start of the event — WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
13:20 – 13:50
PART 1 — Bring your own case: UC and RCC
Juniors can present too!
13:50 – 15:35
PART 2 — Urothelial cancer
Chairs
Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker – UZ Gent, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Brieuc Sautois – CHU Liège, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Gert De Meerleer – UZ Leuven, Belgium
- 13:50 – 14:15
Evolving landscape in the treatment of BCG refractory and BCG naive NMIBC
Prof. Dr. Evanguelos Xylinas – Urology – Hôpitaux de Paris, France - 14:15 – 14:40
Evolving landscape in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment of MIBC
Prof. Dr. Tom Powles – Genito-urinary oncology – Barts Cancer Centre – London, UK - 14:40 – 15:10
New kids on the block in metastatic urothelial cancer
Prof. Dr. Brieuc Sautois – Medical Oncology – CHU Liège, Belgium - 15:10- 15:35
Hypofractionated radiotherapy for bladder cancer: a game changer?
Prof. Dr. Robert Huddart – Royal Marsden Hospital – London, UK
15:35 – 16:05
Coffee break
16:05 – 17:45
Part 3 — Renal cell cancer
Chairs
Prof. Dr. Steven Joniau – UZ Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Brieuc Sautois – CHU Liège, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Thierry Quackels – Hôpital Erasme Brussels, Belgium
- 16:05 – 16:30
Metastasis-directed therapy in oligorecurrent RCC patients: worth the effort?
Prof. Dr. Maarten Albersen – Urology – Leuven University Hospitals, Belgium - 16:30 – 16:55
My personal take on managing advanced kidney cancer – patient selection and treatment decision tree
Prof. Dr. Axel Bex – Urology – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 16:55 – 17:45
Robotic partial nephrectomy
Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker – Urology – UZ Gent, Belgium
17:45 – 17:50
Review & conclusions
17:50 – 18:50
Commercial break
20:00
Congress diner (COVID proof)
Saturday 19 June 2021
09:00 – 09:30
Part 1 — Bring your own case: Prostate cancer
Juniors can present too!
09:30 – 11:20
Part 2 — Prostate cancer
Chairs
Prof. Dr. Steven Joniau – UZ Leuven, Belgium
Dr. François-Xavier Otte – Jules Bordet Instituut Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Gregoire Assenmacher – Europe Hospitals Brussels, Belgium
- 09:30 – 09:55
The role of extended LND in PCa
Prof. Dr. Alberto Briganti – Urology – Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele – Milan, Italy - 09:55 – 10:25
Do’s and don’ts in postoperative radiotherapy: timing, hormones and dose
Prof. Dr. Alberto Bossi – Radiation Oncology – IGR – Paris, France - 10:25 – 10:55
Metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: all hands up for systemic treatment: targeting the primary tumor is obsolete
Prof. Dr. Karim Fizazi – Medical Oncology – IGR – Paris, France - 10:55 – 11:20
Metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: targeting the primary tumor is mandatory
Prof. Dr. Nicolaas Lumen – Urology – UZ Gent, Belgium
11:20 – 11:50
Commercial break
11:50 – 12:35
Part 3 — Mini symposium
by FERRING
Update on Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT)
- CV Disease and ADT where do we stand?
Prof. Dr. Bertrand Tombal – Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Belgium - Role of adjuvant ADT to radiation therapy in oligometastatic recurrent PCa? Treatment duration?
Dr. Piet Dirix – GZA Antwerpen, Belgium - Is there a role of Neo-adjuvant ADT before prostatectomy?
Prof. Dr. Steven Joniau – UZ Leuven, Belgium
12:35 – 14:05
Part 4 — Ethics & Economy
Chairs
Dr. Lieven Goeman – AZ Delta Roeselaere, Belgium
Dr. Marc Claessens – AZ Klina Brasschaat, Belgium
- 12:35 – 14:05
Value based health care in uro oncology: fancy words or future reality
Dr. Filip Ameye – Urology – Maria Middelares Hospital Gent, Belgium