GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY
TREVISO, ITALY JUNE 29-JULY 2, 2016
ADVANCED COURSE
Oncologists and Geriatricians need to work together!
Here is how:
Join our unique CME accredited training programme lead by international experts in the field of geriatrics AND oncology designed to provide specific skills in assessment, care pathways and therapeutic choices about the elderly patients with cancer in order to provide the basis of the assessment and the multi-dimensional approach that should be applied to elderly cancer patients.
This 2-phase advanced course is addressed to professionals in the management of elderly cancer patients who will acquire knowledge on the general principles of cancer treatment as a multisciplinarity with case based programmes, discussions and debates in geriatrics for clinical oncologists as well as in clinical oncology for geriatricians.
GERIATRICS FOR CLINICAL ONCOLOGISTS CLINICAL ONCOLOGY FOR GERIATRICIANS
Biology of age Biology of cancer
Assessment of physiologic age Toxicity of chemotherapy Comprehensive geriatric assessment
and geriatric interventions General principles of endocrine therapy
The screening tests Specific molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy Delirium, depression, dementia Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy
The other geriatric syndromes (sarcopenia
osteoporosis, malnutrition, incontinence, etc.) How to assess the response to the medical treatment
Polypharmacy Tumour boards and multidisciplinarity
Phase 1 4-day course in Treviso, Italy from June 29-July 2, 2016 Phase 2 3 days at the SIOG 2016 Annual Conference in Milan, Italy
from October 27-29, 2016.
Join us in Treviso, find your mentor, be part of an international network and become the bridge between the oncological and geriatric teams in your institution.
Scientific programme committee:
Riccardo Audisio (GB), Lodovico Balducci (US), Etienne Brain (FR), Guiseppe Colloca (IT), Silvio Monfardini (IT), Pierre Soubeyran (FR), Laurence Verhagen (CH)
Preliminary list of international faculty:
Matti Aapro (CH), Riccardo Audisio (GB), Lodovico Balducci (US), Etienne Brain (FR), Giuseppe Colloca (IT), Marije E Hamaker (NL), Arti Hurria (US),
Emmanuele Marzetti (IT), Silvio Monfardini (IT), Siri Rostof (NO), Pierre Soubeyran (FR)
Find out more and
sign up at www.siog.org
Places are limited!
Pending applications for auspices and endorsement:
16th Conference of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology
www .siog.org 2016
MILAN ITALY 27-29 OCT.
Geriatric oncology: a multidisciplinar y approach in a multicultural environment
Save the date!
