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The Seventh International Conference on Screening for Lung Cancer

Location: Weill Medical College of Cornell University

1300 York Avenue, New York NY 10021

Friday, October 18, 2002 to Sunday, October 20, 2002

Conference Agenda

Friday, October 18, 2002. Uris Auditorium
9:00-9:10 Welcome to the Conference - J.P.Smith
9:10-9:30 Overview of the Seventh Conference - Claudia I. Henschke
Update. Moderator: M.Smith
9:30-9:45 Update on interim developments - C.I.Henschke
9:45-10:00 Update on community outreach in the context of screening - Reverend Greer
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
Natural history of screen-diagnosed lesions. Moderator: F.Grannis
10:30-11:00 Natural history of non-CT screen-diagnosed lesions - T. Sobue
11:00-11:20 Natural history of CT screen-diagnosed lesions - C.I.Henschke
11:20-11:40 Rationale and plans for the international registry - D.Yankelevitz
11:40-12:00 Discussion
12:00-1:30 Lunch at the Griffis Faculty Club
Pathologic diagnosis of early lung cancers. Moderator: W.Travis
1:30-1:50 Results of the Expert Pathology Panel - D.Carter
1:50-2:30 Interesting cases of radiology-cytology-histology correlation - D.Yankelevitz, M.Vazguez, D.Flieder, for discussion with the Expert Pathology Panel - E.Brambilla, D.Carter, A.Gazdar, M.Noguchi, W.Travis.
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
Topical issues in experimental therapeutics. Moderators: N. Altorki, H.Kato
2:45-3:00 Study of VATS partial resection of sub-solid nodules - H. Kato
3:00-3:15 New strategies in the treatment of peripheral small cancers - N. Ikeda
3:15-3:30 Conformal radiation of small cancers - T. Shafman
3:30-3:45 Molecular targeted treatments of early lung cancer - C. Belani
3:45-4:00 Discussion
4:00-5:00 Nancy Behrman Lecture in Honor of Betty Flehinger
Introduction: M. Melamed and A. Dannenberg New molecular targets for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer a status report - R. Herbst
5:00-7:00 Reception at the Griffis Faculty Club
Saturday, October 19, 2002; 9:00am-4:00pm. Weill Auditorium Scientific Session and Workshops
9:00-11:00 Scientific and poster presentations Please note that each presentation is limited to 7 minutes and 3 minutes for questions. To be fair to all, presentations will be stopped after 10 minutes.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
I-ELCAP Workshops
11:30-12:30 I. Registry progress - Chairs: H.Asamura, D.Yankelevitz and J.Yoshida
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 II. Chemoprevention and non-surgical treatments - Chairs: N.Altorki and M.Pasmantier
3:00-4:00 I-ELCAP Steering Committee meeting
Sunday, October 20, 2002; Weill Auditorium.
9:00am-12:00pm. Workshop reports and consensus development.


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