November 27 – November 30 2011
Program
The current version of the conference program is a draft only. Speakers and symposia titles are still being confirmed.
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Program overview
| Sunday, November 27, 2011 | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Opening PlenaryChair
Elizabeth Eisenhauer (NCIC Clinical Trials Group, Kingston & Canadian Partnership Against Cancer/Canadian Cancer Research Alliance) |
| Monday, November 28, 2011 | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Plenary Session Personalized Medicine to Population-Based StrategiesChairs David Malkin (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) Speakers |
| 1:00 p.m. | Concurrent Symposia Metabolic Disorders Chair Tak Mak (Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Toronto) Biological Adapted Therapy: Lessons Learned from Prostate and Breast Cancer Environment and Cancer Psychosocial Research Progress and Challenges in Breast Cancer |
| 2:45 p.m. | Plenary SessionFuture of Cancer Research: An International Perspective Chairs Alan Bernstein (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto) Ben Neel (Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto) Speakers |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2011 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Concurrent Symposia Clinical Trials Showcase Chairs Ralph Meyer (Queen’s University & NCIC Clinical Trials Group, Kingston) Daniel Rayson (Dalhousie University, Halifax)Cancer Cohorts: Their Promise and Delivery Chair Alison Spaull (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto) Cancer Initiating Cells Tackling Complex Problems with Simple Organisms Effective Cancer Systems |
| 10:30 a.m. | Keynote Plenary Screening and Early Detection Chair Heather Bryant (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto)Speakers Heather Bryant (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto) Martin Yaffe (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto) Patti Groome (Queen’s University, Kingston) |
| 12:45 p.m. | Keynote Plenary Prevention: From SNPs to PolicyChairs Roy Cameron (University of Waterloo & Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, Waterloo) Speakers Geoffrey Liu (Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto) |
| 2:30 p.m. | Concurrent Symposia Emerging Therapeutics: Detect, Decide and Destroy Chairs Brian Wilson (Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto) Calum MacAulay (BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver)Personalized Medicine: From Discovery and Validation to Implementation Chairs Gerald Batist (McGill University, Montreal) Anne-Marie Mes-Masson (Université de Montréal, Montreal) Cancer Sans Frontiers: Canada’s Role in the Global War on Cancer Palliative/End of Life Care Tumour Microenvironment |
| Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Keynote Plenary SurvivorshipChair Mark Greenberg (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) Speakers Christine Friedenreich (University of Calgary, Calgary) |
| 10:15 a.m. | Concurrent Symposia The Optics of Omics Chair Marco Marra (BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver)Canadian Cancer Prevention Research Strategy Chairs Roy Cameron (University of Waterloo & Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, Waterloo) Jon Kerner (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto) Personalized Medicine: Education, Ethics and Economics Emerging Therapeutics: Drugs |
| 12:00 p.m. | Keynote Plenary New Frontiers in Cancer ResearchChair Philip Branton (McGill University, Montreal) Speakers John Dick (Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto) |
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