A Practical Introduction to Oncology
on Saturday, 17 September 2011
at W12 Conferences, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN
Registration fee: £95
Patients with cancer represent approximately 25% of the in-patient admission in the UK
and 33% of deaths. This course is aimed at physicians, general internal medicine, core
and specialist medical trainees, and GPs.
09:00
Registration: tea & coffee will be served
09:15
Welcome and introduction: Dr Roshan Agarwal (Course director)
GENERAL ONCOLOGY
09:20
General principles of cancer management - diagnosis and staging: Speaker to be announced
10:00
Chemotherapy - principles, prescribing and managing side-effects: Dr Carlo Palmieri
10:45
Endocrine and targeted therapies - principles, prescribing and managing side-effects:
Dr Carlo Palmieri
Coffee
11:30
ACUTE ONCOLGY
11.45
Radiotherapy - principles, planning and managing side-effects: Dr Amar Challapalli
12:30
Clinical trials - practical issues for oncologists and generalists: Dr Roshan Agarwal
13:00
Lunch
13:45
Oncological Emergencies - neutropenic sepsis, hypercalcaemia, tumour lysis, SVCO,
spinal cord compression: Dr Laura Kenny
14:30
Site specific complications and VTE - brain mets, bone mets, pleural effusions, ascites,
recurrent VTE: Dr Laura Kenny
15:15
Tea
PALLIATIVE CARE
15:30
Symptom control - (Pain, nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, cough, breathlessness):
a MacMillan nurse
16:15
Psycho-social support: other issues in terminal care: a MacMillan nurse
17:00
Questions
17:15
Close
Full details and online registration: www.symposia.org.uk
SPEAKERS
Course Director: Dr Roshan Agarwal
Co-organisers: Dr Laura Kenny & Dr Carlo Palmieri
Senior lecturers & Consultant Medical Oncologists
Dr Amar Challapalli
Senior Fellow in Radiotherapy, Imperial College London