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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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