Final Program

The new frontiers of tailored approach and precision medicine for gastric/EGJ cancer

Friday 04/10/2024

Saturday 05/10/2024

Main Hall

Hall B

Main Hall

Hall B

8:30

Opening Ceremony

European Chapter Projects
W01

9:00

9:45

General Sessions I
S01

Lecture
L02

10:00

General Sessions II
S02

Early Stages EGJ
S06

11:15

11:00

Oral communications

Break

11:30

11:15

Break

Advanced Stages EGJ
S07

11:45

12:15

Early Stages
S03

Poorly Cohesive Project
W02

13:15

13:30

Poster Walk / Lunch

14:15

Locally Advanced Forms
S04

Video Session
VP1

Advocacy Group Session

16:00

15:30

Break

General Assembly / Poster Award / Closing Ceremony

16:15

Lecture
L01

16:30 - 18:30

Consensus Oligometastatic / Metastatic Gastric Cancer
S05

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

OPENING CEREMONY
8.30 – 9.00
Giovanni de Manzoni, Stefan Monig, Franco Roviello (European Chapter IGCA Committee)

Roberto Di Pietra – Rector Siena University

Antonio Barretta – General Director Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese

GENERAL SESSIONS

S01. Clinical staging in multimodality treatment 9.00 – 10.00
Chair: Carlos Garcia Carrasco, Giovanni de Manzoni, Hans-Joachim Meyer
– Radiological staging and re-staging of advanced GC – Maria Antonietta Mazzei (10 min)
– Staging laparoscopy: looking for a standard technique and indications – Ines Goeckel (10 min) (online presentation)
– European Delphi study on staging laparoscopy – Bas Wjinhoven (10 min)
– Best Abstract: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON [68GA]GA-FAPI PET AS A STAGING TECHNIQUE FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER. De Pascale S. (5 min)
Discussants: Ugo Elmore, Monica Gualtierotti, Stefano Rausei

S02. High technology in gastric cancer 10.00 – 11.30
Chair: Wojciech Kielan, Magnus Nilsson, Franco Roviello
– Robotic approach and new platforms: 1) UGIRA project – Richard Van Hillegersberg (10 min); 2) Hugo, Versius – Simone Giacopuzzi (10 min); 3) Hinotori – Franco Roviello (10 min)
– Best Abstract:
1) THE CLINICAL UTILISATION OF TISSUE IMAGING MASS SPECTROMETRY AS A DIAGNOSTIC MODEL FOR GASTRIC AND GASTRO-ESOPHAGEAL JUNCTIONAL ADENOCARCINOMA. Patel P. (5 min)

2) SAFETY AND FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING ROBOT-ASSISTED MINIMALLY INVASIVE GASTRECTOMY (RAMIG) FOR GASTRIC CANCER IN A EUROPEAN TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTER. Triemstra L. (5 min)

Discussants: Fabio Cianchi, Roberta Gelmini, Vivian Strong

BREAK

CLINICAL SESSIONS – NON CARDIA GC

S03. Treatment of clinical stages I/II 11.45 – 13.15
Chair: Henk Hartgrink, Riccardo Rosati, Shaun Preston
– Organ-sparing surgery – Han-Kwang Yang (10 min)
– Minimally-invasive surgery (MIS) in complex locations – Suzanne Gisbertz (10 min)
– Stage II: up-front surgery vs. neo-adjuvant approach – Guillaume Piessen (10 min)
– Tailored lymphadenectomy in clinical stages I/II – Takeshi Sano (10 min)
– Best Abstract: CASE-MIX AND TREATMENT ADJUSTED HOSPITAL VARIATION IN SURGICAL OUTCOMES AFTER GASTRECTOMY FOR CANCER: A GLOBAL MULTICENTRE ANALYSIS. Van Hootegem S. (5 min)
Discussants: Claudio Belluco, Muhammet Kadri Çolakoğlu, Fausto Rosa

Poster walk – Lunch

S04. Locally-advanced gastric cancer 14.15 – 16.00
Chair: Daniele Marrelli, Paulo Matos da Costa, Katja Ott

– Surgical approach and oncological criteria after neo-adjuvant treatment – Vivian Strong (10 min)
– Extended lymphadenectomy beyond the D2 – Masanori Terashima (10 min)
– Pathological and molecular predictors of response to NAC – Heike Grabsch (10 min)
– Therapeutic approach to elderly or “unfit” patients – Nainika Menon (10 min)
– Turkish experience on locally advanced gastric cancer – Enver Ilhan (10 min)
– Invited Commentary. What could neo-adjuvant therapy add to an optimally performed up-front surgery for locally-advanced gastric cancer? – Mitsuru Sasako (10 min)
– Best Abstract:
1) POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS BEYOND INFECTIONS PREDICT WORSE LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS AFTER GASTRIC CANCER SURGERY – Kim J.C.. (5 min)
2) MULTICENTER ITALIAN VALIDATION OF KOQUSS-40 QUESTIONNAIRE ASSESSING QOL OF GASTRIC CANCER PATIENTS AFTER GASTRECTOMY. Filippini F. (5 min)

Discussants: Carlo Milandri, Rossella Reddavid, Daniel Reim

OPEN COFFEE

L01. Lecture. 16.15 – 16.30
Chair: Luca Saragoni
Molecular biology: a revolution for clinical approach to gastric cancer – Fatima Carneiro (15 min)
S05.Metastatic gastric cancer 16.30 – 18.30
Chair: Paulo Kassab, Piotr Kolodziejczyk, Paolo Morgagni, Takeshi Sano

– The role of surgery in oligometastatic gastric cancer: results of the Renaissance trial – Stefan Monig (10 min)
– Peritoneal-directed treatment for GC peritoneal metastases – Joanna Van Sandick (10 min)
– Treatment of “converted” metastatic GC – Osvaldo Prado Castro (10 min)
– The role of immunotherapy in multimodal approach – Filippo Pietrantonio (10 min)
– The role of PIPAC in peritoneal metastases from GC – Mickael Chevallay (10 min)
– Best Abstract: GASTRECTOMY, CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY AND HIPEC VS SYSTEMIC THERAPY ALONE FOR GASTRIC CANCER WITH PERITONEAL METASTASES: AN UPDATE ON THE PERISCOPE II STUDY, A EUROPEAN MULTICENTRE RCT. Quik J (5 min)

Discussants: Giulio Bagnacci, Luigina Graziosi, Gianni Mura, Monica Valente

– Consensus: Oligometastatic gastric cancer
1) Question: What can be considered as oligometastatic after oncologic treatment and resection? a single Metastatic site? or a single M+ site and 1 lymph nodal M+ site? or otherwise multiple M+ sites?
– Considerations on survival rates from patient’s database collected by Japanese CONVO – Masanori Terashima(5 min)
– Dutch OMEC – Richard Van Hillegersberg (5 min)
– German FLOT5/RENAISSANCE – Stefan Monig (5 min)
– Italian METAGASTRO – Guido Tiberio (5 min)

– Discussion (10 min) Filippo Pietrantonio

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

W01. EUROPEAN CHAPTER PROJECTS 8.30 – 9.45
Chair: Giovanni de Manzoni, Stefan Monig, Franco Roviello

– PUMA study (lymphadenectomy and D2-adherence) – Maria Bencivenga (8 min)
– Intercontinental Criteria of Resectability of Gastric Cancer (ICRGC) project – Wojciech Polkowski (8 min)
– GASTRODATA projects – Gian Luca Baiocchi (8 min)
– REMARCS project – Mickael Chevallay (8 min)
– GAND database – Stefania Piccioni (8 min)
– IGCA future perspectives – Han-Kwang Yang (10 min)

EGJ CANCER

L02. Lecture. Chair: Giovanni de Manzoni
Siewert Classification in the multimodal era – Arnulf Hoelscher (15 min) 9.45 – 10.00 (online presentation)

S06. Early stages EGJ carcinoma 10.00 – 11.00
Chair: Elfride Bollschweiler, Domenico D’Ugo, Manuel Pera
– Minimally-invasive vs. open surgery – Marc Van Berge Henegouwen (10 min)
– Proximal gastrectomy and reconstructions – Felix Berlth (10 min)
– Long-term results and QOL – Christian Gutschow (10 min)

Discussants: Raffaele Macchiarelli, Giuseppe Verlato, Bas Wjinhoven

BREAK

S07. Advanced stages EGJ carcinoma 11.15 – 12.15
Chair: William Allum, Uberto Fumagalli, Mitsuru Sasako

– Cardia type II: thoracic vs. abdominal approach. Peter Grimminger (10 min)
– Multimodal approach according to Siewert types – Paul Schneider (10 min)
– Novel targets in EGJ carcinoma – Silvia Giordano (10 min)
– Treatment of malnutrition and pre-habilitation in operable forms – Riccardo Caccialanza (10 min)

Discussants: Paulo Kassab, Roberto Petrioli, Guillaume Piessen

W02. POORLY COHESIVE PROJECT 12.15 – 13.15
Chair: Fatima Carneiro, Heike Grabsch, Nicole Van Grieken

– Update on pathology activities – Rupert Langer (10 min)
– New molecular knowledge and biomarkers for poorly-cohesive GC– Michael Vieth (10 min)
– Clinical challenges in treatment of poorly-cohesive GC: focus on chemoresistance and peritoneal carcinomatosis – Magnus Nilsson (10 min)

Discussants: Maria Bencivenga, Stefano Lazzi, Luca Saragoni

Mini-Lecture: Chair: Roberto Santoro

Haemostatic agents in Upper-GI surgery – Riccardo Piagnerelli (10 min) 13.20 – 13-30

Light Lunch

W03. ADVOCACY GROUP SESSION 14.15 – 15.30
Chair: Annibale Donini, Daniel Reim, Han-Kwang Yang
– Introduction: Han-Kwang Yang
– HDGC syndrome: an underestimated issue – Giovanni Corso (10 min)

Patients’ Associations Activities:
– Dabbie’s Dream Foundation (https://debbiesdream.org) (10 min) (online presentation)
– My Gut Feeling (https://www.mygutfeeling.ca) (10 min) (online presentation)
– Vivere Senza Stomaco si può (https://www.viveresenzastomaco.org) (10 min)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY/BEST ORAL-POSTER-VIDEO AWARDS/CLOSING CEREMONY

ORAL SESSION
Friday 4, 11.15 – 13.15
Chair: Annibale Donini, Paolo Morgagni, Osvaldo Prado Castro

VIDEO SESSION (Maurizio Degiuli Award)
Friday 4, 14.15 – 16.15
Chair: Carlos Garcia Carrasco, Wojciech Polkowski, Guido Tiberio

BEST POSTER COMMITTEE
Natale Calomino, Simone Giacopuzzi, Stefano Rausei, Fausto Rosa

The new frontiers of tailored approach and precision medicine for gastric/EGJ cancer

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