The Third International Conference on Screening for Lung Cancer
Locations:
Morning Session Weiss Dinning Hall, 17th Floor Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue, New York NY 10021
All Other Sessions
(Locations for different meetings will be posted outside of the Uris Auditorium) Weill Medical College of Cornell University 1300 York Avenue, New York NY 10021
Friday, October 27, 2000 to Sunday, October 29, 2000.
Conference Agenda
| Friday, February 25th, 2000 | |
|---|---|
| Morning Plenary Session Location: Weiss Dining Hall, 17th Floor, Rockefeller University | |
| 8:00-8:10 | Welcome - James P. Smith |
| Summary of Interim Developments 8:10 - 10:00 AM Moderators: James P. Smith, Shusuke Sone, Janet Husband | |
| Conferences | |
| 8:10-8:15 | "Reducing lung cancer mortality: actions for the new millennium" - James Mulshine/Carolyn Aldige |
| 8:15-8:20 | Resulting NCI meeting - John C Ruckdeschel |
| 8:20-8:25 | "Ground-glass opacities" - Ryutaro Kakinuma/David Yankelevitz |
| Publications/Prepublications | |
| 8:25-8:40 | Mayo Lung Project follow-up, mortality by size, role of modeling - Marek Kimmel |
| 8:40-8:55 | Smallest-size lung cancers, annual repeat screening, cost-effectiveness - Claudia Henschke |
| 8:55-9:05 | Smoking cessation in conjunction with screening for lung cancer - Jamie Ostroff |
| 9:05-9:15 | Interim Mayo Results - James Jett |
| Interim Research Initiatives | |
| 9:15-9:25 | NY-ELCAP - Maria Mitchell |
| 9:25-9:35 | NCI initiatives - John K. Gohagan |
| 9:35-9:45 | Japanese Initiatives - Kenji Eguchi |
| 9:45-9:55 | European Initiatives - Karl Klinger |
| Interim Plans for Research | |
| 9:55-10:10 | Summary of planned European research initiatives - Eugenio Paci |
| Practice | |
| 10:10-10:20 | Overview of US activities - Margaret McCarthy |
| 10:20-10:30 | Overview of Japanese activities - Takeshi Nawa |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break, Weiss Dining Hall, 17th floor, Rockefeller University |
| 10:50-11:00 | Overview of Status Quo, and Missions of the Third International Conference on Screening for Lung Cancer - Claudia Henschke |
| I. Policy-relevant Research: What Should be Addressed and How? Moderator: Robert Smith | |
| 11:00-11:15 | RCT outlook: Senior NCI Epidemiologist |
| 11:15-11:30 | ELCAP outlook: Olli S. Miettinen |
| 11:30-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch, Weiss Dining Hall, 17th floor, Rockefeller University |
| Afternoon Plenary Session: Location: Uris Auditorium, Weill Medical College of Cornell University | |
| II. Update on Risk Assessment: Moderator: John Field | |
| 1:30-1:40 | Age, smoking history, and COPD - David Burns |
| 1:40-1:50 | Occupational exposure history - Dennis Nowak |
| 1:50-2:00 | Biomarkers - James Herman |
| III. Update on Screening Tests: Moderator: Georgeann McGuinness | |
| 2:00-2:10 | CT imaging - Joseph Schoepf |
| 2:10-2:20 | New approaches for dual reading of CT images - Anthony Reeves |
| 2:20-2:30 | Automated reading of CT images - Noboru Niki |
| 2:30-2:40 | Role of sputum cytology - Melvyn S. Tockman |
| 2:40-3:10 | Coffee Break |
| IV. Update on Definitive Diagnostics Moderator: Madeline Vazquez | |
| 3:10-3:20 | "Ground-glass opacities": growth assessment and biopsies - David Yankelevitz |
| 3:20-3:30 | "Ground-glass opacities": pathologic diagnosis - William Travis |
| 3:30-3:40 | CT/PET imaging - Charles Stearns |
| V. Update on Screening-associated Intervention: Moderator: Nasser Altorki | |
| 3:40-3:55 | Interventions on "ground-glass lesions" - Junji Yoshida |
| 3:55-4:10 | Morphological atypical adenomatous hyperplasia-bronchioloalveolar carcinoma - Tomoyuki Yokose |
| 4:10-4:20 | Open Lung Biopsy Under Epidural Anesthesia - Shinji Kato |
| VI. Recommendations for Screening Practice: What Information is Required? Moderator: Barbara McNeil | |
| 4:20-4:35 | National Cancer Institute - Daniel Sullivan, Diagnostic Imaging Division, NCI |
| 4:35-4:50 | American Cancer Society - Robert Smith, Chief of Epidemiology, American Cancer Society |
| 4:50-5:05 | Health care insurors - Michael Stocker, President and CEO, Empire Blue Cross/Shield |
| 5:05-5:30 | Discussion |
| October 28: Saturday Workshops: 9 am-5 pm, Weill Auditorium, 2nd floor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University | |
| Workshop I: "Ground-glass opacities": Definition, Detection, Workup, Diagnosis and Treatment (Imaging, Biopsy, Pathology, Surgery): Chairs: Radiology: David Yankelevitz, Ryutaro Kakinuma and David Naidich; Pathology: Masayuki Noguchi, Madeline Vazquez, Tomoyuki Yokose; Surgery: Nasser Altorki, Kenji Suzuki, Junji Yoshida | |
| Workshop II: Pooling of Research Data: Chairs: Daniel Sullivan, Marek Kimmel | |
| Workshop III: Outlook in Screening Research: Chairs: Olli Miettinen, NCI Epidemiologist | |
| Workshop IV: Recommendations for Screening Practice: Chairs: John C. Ruckdeschel, James P. Smith, Robert Smith | |
| October 29: Sunday Consensus Session: 9am-12noon, Weill Auditorium, 2nd floor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University | |
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