Skin Cancer

What's New in Skin Cancer 2015

09:00 Opening Ceremony

Skin Cancer: The epidemic of 21st century?
Prof. João Maia Silva - Hospital CUF Descobertas, Lisboa, Portugal

Farmacoeconomy

09:40 Do you want to hear the bad news? The healthcare expenditure of NMSC.

Prof. Doutor António Vaz Carneiro - CEMBE Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

10:00 Evidence of cost-effectiveness and other barriers to patient access to new treatments for

melanoma

Dr. Alessandro Testori - Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

10:20 Coffee break

Non melanoma skin cancer

10:40 New approach for diagnosis of AK.

Prof. Iris Zalaudek - Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

11:00 The Hedgehog pathway as the underlying cause of basal cell carcinoma and clinical development
in advanced BCC

Prof. Brigitte Dreno - CHU Nantes, Nantes, France

Malignant melanoma

11:40 What is new in genetics of melanoma? How is it changing my clinical practice?

Prof. Susana Puig - Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

12:00 Melanoma susceptibility and longevity. What is the trade off?

Prof. Veronique Bataille - Hemel Hempstead Hospital, London, United Kingdom

12:20 Pros and cons of testing in melanoma follow-up

Dr. U. Leiter - University of Tuebigen, Tuebigen, Germany

13:00 Lunch

Current landscape of adjuvant therapy of melanoma.

New therapies for advanced melanoma.

14:30 Who should receive adjuvant therapy?
Prof. Claus Garbe - University of Tuebigen, Tuebigen, Germany

14:50 Individualized treatments for advanced melanoma. Already a reality?

Prof. Claus Garbe - University of Tuebigen, Tuebigen, Germany

What is known about evidence-based medicine demonstrated through
dermatology surgery topics?

15:20 Surgery of the primary malignant melanoma. Controversies about excision margins

Prof. Amod Sarnaik - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA

15:40 Sentinel lymph node biopsy as a surgical procedure. Outweighing risk and benefits in certain

clinical settings

Prof. Alexander von Akkooy - Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

16:00 Surgery for distant metastatic malignant melanoma. Identifying candidates for surgery of the

distant metastasis

Prof. Amod Sarnaik - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA