OUTLINE PROGRAMME
DAY 1 – Friday 21 March 2008
09.30
10.15
1715
Registration and Coffee
Welcome
Bowel Screening – the
background
 Current Trends in Bowel Cancer
 Results of First 3 Screening
rounds and roll-out in the UK
 Bowel Screening in Europe
Increasing uptake
 Increasing uptake and informed
choice
 Engaging low uptake groups
 Lessons from Breast Screening
Keynote invited speaker
 Lessons from Colorectal
Screening in Australia
Message from the Scottish
Government - Nicola Sturgeon
MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health
& Wellbeing
The Screening Test
 FOBT and FIT Alone and in
Tandem
 FIT and the Dilemma of the
Positive FIT
Second Line Investigations
 Novel approaches to preassessment
 Screening Colonoscopy –
quantity and quality
Management of screen detected
disease
 Dilemmas in Screen-detected
Pathology
 Adenoma follow up
 What to do with Screen Detected
Cancers
Closing remarks
FACULTY:
Prof Joan Austoker, Oxford; Dr Margaret Balsitis,
Ayrshire; Mr Roger Black, Edinburgh; Mr R H
Diament, Ayrshire; Prof Frank Carey, Dundee; Mr
J G Docherty, Inverness; Dr Hilary Dobson,
Glasgow; Prof Callum Fraser, Dundee; Prof
Ashley Mowat, Aberdeen; Prof Colm O’Morain,
Dublin; Dr Kelvin Palmer, Edinburgh; Dr Gordon
Paterson, Selkirk; Ms Jackie Rodger, Dundee;
Prof Robert Steele, Dundee; Prof John
Scholefield, Nottingham; Dr Steven Smith,
Coventry; Professor Sir Graham Teasdale,
Glasgow; Prof David Weller, Edinburgh; Prof
Graeme P Young, Australia.
The Scottish Bowel Screening
Programme
with
The Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh
ACCOMMODATION
Ten Hill Place Hotel
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Bowel Screening Today:
A UK Perspective
CONTACT US
Information Section
information@rcsed.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 668 9222
21 March 2008
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Fee: £100.00
(Nursing Staff: £75.00)
Course Convener
Professor Robert J C Steele,
Dundee
Venue
Symposium Hall,
RCSEd
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Bowel Screening Today:
A UK Perspective
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
APPLICATION FORM
Early Bird Offer - Apply before 31 December 2007 - and receive a £25 reduction!
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To educate all stakeholders in a National
Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in
developments relating to the United Kingdom
National Programme.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the seminar participants will be
able to:
1) Understand the UK National Bowel
Screening Programme.
2) Understand the issues around increasing
uptake in a National Bowel Screening
Programme.
3) Understand the pros and cons of guaiac
and immunological faecal occult blood
testing.
4) Understand the role of colonoscopy in a
Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
5) Appreciate the optimal management of
screen detected disease in a National
Colorectal Screening Programme.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Gastroenterologists, colorectal surgeons,
specialist colorectal nurses, specialists in
Public Health and NHS management and
Pathologists.
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Supported by:
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Bowel Screening Today: A UK Perspective