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Third Annual Symposium on Gliomas and Secondary Brain Tumors

Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue
Philadelphia
November 14, 2009

Saturday, November 14, 2009

7:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am Welcome and Introductions
Minesh Mehta, Mike Glantz
8:05 am Presession Survey
Glioblastoma
8:15 am Combined Modality Therapy for Previously Untreated GBM
Mark R. Gilbert
8:35 am Question-and-Answer Session
8:40 am Case-Based Discussion
Mark R. Gilbert, Michael A. Vogelbaum
9:00 am Clinical Application of Antiangiogenic Agents in Glioma
James Vredenburgh
9:20 am Question-and-Answer Session
9:25 am Case-Based Discussion
9:45 am Break
Anaplastic Gliomas
10:00 am Update on Anaplastic Astrocytoma
David A. Reardon
10:20 am Question-and-Answer Session
10:25 am Current Approaches to Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma
Andrew Lassman
10:45 am Question-and-Answer Session
10:50 am Case-Based Discussion
Andrew Lassman, David A. Reardon, Michael A. Vogelbaum
Low-Grade Gliomas
11:10 am What's New in the Treatment of Low-Grade Gliomas
Paul Brown
11:30 am Question-and-Answer Session
11:35 am Postsession Survey
11:45 am Multidisciplinary Case-Based Discussion
Paul Brown, Michael A. Vogelbaum, TBA
12:05 pm Lunch (With Poster Discussion)
12:45 pm Presession Survey
Secondary Brain Tumors and Other CNS Malignancies
12:55 pm Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer Metastases
George Simon
1:10 pm Question-and-Answer Session
1:15 pm Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation for NSCLC and SCLC
Elizabeth M. Gore
1:40 pm Question-and-Answer Session
1:45 pm Brain Metastases in Breast Cancer
Minesh Mehta
2:05 pm Question-and-Answer Session
2:10 pm CNS Lymphoma (Primary and Involvement by NHL)
Mike Glantz
2:30 pm Question-and-Answer Session
2:35 pm Case-Based Discussion
New Directions in CNS Tumors
2:55 pm Ongoing Trials and Cooperative Group Efforts
Patrick Y. Wen
3:15 pm Question-and-Answer Session
3:20 pm Postsession Survey
3:30 pm Closing Remarks
Adjourn

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Genentech BioOncology
  2. AstraZeneca