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QI survey of clinical practice guidelines of EGJ cancer.

Time: 09:30 - 09:40 CET
Saturo Matsudo, surgeon, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Chinese Gastric Cancer Association Meeting

Time: 14:45 - 15:25 CET

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Poorly Cohesive group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Heike Grabsch

Convergence study – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Prof. Jimmy So Bok Yan, National University of Singapore

UGIRA study group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 14:45 - 15:30 CET

14:45 – 15:25 PM This session is hosted by: Prof. Dr. Richard van Hillegersberg, UMC Utrecht

Video webinar group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 14:45 - 15:30 CET

14:45 – 15:25 PM This session is hosted by: Souya Nunobe, Cancer Institute Hospital

Quality of Life group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

12:15 – 13:45 PM This session is hosted by: Jessie Elliot

Peritoneal metastasis group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

12:15 – 13:45 PM This session is hosted by: Prof. Jimmy So Bok Yan, National University of Singapore

Health equity group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 14:45 - 15:30 CET

14:45 – 15:25 PM This session is hosted by: Prof. Yanghee Woo, City Of Hope

Stage IV concensus group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Paolo Morgagni, Gb Morgagni-l Pierantoni General Hospital

Omega studiegroup – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 14:45 - 15:27 CET

14:45 – 15:25 PM This session is hosted by: Hilde Overtoom

Pan American Group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

12:15 – 13:45 AM This session is hosted by: Eduardo Hering

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EGCA – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

12:15 – 13:45 PM This session is hosted by: Stefan Mönig

Robotic surgery group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:27 CET

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Maria Bencivenga, University Of Verona

Data bank group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:27 CET

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Prof. Vivian Strong, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Social programme

Time: 18:45 - 19:15 CET

Presentation t.b.a

Time: 18:15 - 18:45 CET

Presentation Congress President – President IGCA – Secretary General

Time: 18:00 - 18:15 CET

3x accepted oral abstract (3×10 min) – HDGC / Prehabilitation

Time: 09:30 - 10:00 CET
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Council meeting

Time: 13:30 - 16:29 CET

The Council Meeting will be held in REM Amsterdam
REM Amsterdam – Restaurant | Bar | Rooftop

Haparandadam 45-2, 1013 AK Amsterdam (5min walk from Theater Amsterdam)

Congress dinerparty

Time: 19:00 - 20:00 CET

Faculty diner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00 CET

3x accepted best oral abstract (3×10 min) – Multimodality treatment

Time: 14:15 - 14:25 CET
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Italian gastric cancer studies

Time: 13:45 - 14:15 CET
Franco Roviello, university Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy

Plenary session 5 — Nishi-Takahashi | Memorial lecture

Time: 13:44 - 13:45 CET

Chairs: Suzanne Gisbertz, surgeon, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Yasuyuki Seto (surgeon, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

Gastric Cancer: Innovations and Advances – the U.S. Perspective

Time: 17:10 - 17:40 CET

Chairs: Han Kwang Yang (surgeon, Seoul University National Hospital, Seoul, South-Korea) and Johanna van Sandick (surgeon, NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Vivian Strong, surgeon, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, USA

Plenary session 3 : Jin Pok Kim Lecture

Time: 17:09 - 17:10 CET

Chairs: Han Kwang Yang, surgeon, Seoul University National Hospital, Seoul, South-Korea and Johanna van Sandick, surgeon, NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 09:50 - 10:00 CET

2 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 09:40 - 09:50 CET

1 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 09:30 - 09:40 CET

Prophylactic surgery

Time: 09:10 - 09:30 CET
Paul Mansfield, surgeon, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

Endoscopic surveillance

Time: 08:50 - 09:10 CET
Jolanda van Dieren, gastro-enterologist, NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Genetic changes

Time: 08:30 - 08:50 CET
Chella van der Post, pathologist Radboud Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Session 5c: Videosession: How to cope with failures

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Session 5b: Pathology / Translational research

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Session 5a: Medical Oncology – Novel drugs and technologies

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Coffee break

Time: 10:10 - 10:45 CET

3x accepted oral abstract (3×10 min) – Surgery

Time: 09:40 - 10:10 CET
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GEJ cancer from a surgeon’s point of view

Time: 09:00 - 09:30 CET
Bas Wijnhoven, surgeon, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

GEJ cancer from a medical oncologist’s point of view

Time: 08:30 - 09:00 CET
Florian Lordick, medical oncologist, University Cancer Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Plenary session 7 joint ESDE – IGCA session

Time: 08:29 - 08:30 CET

Chairs:  Mark van Berge Henegouwen, surgeon, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Yuko Kitagawa, surgeon, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and Arnulf Hölscher, surgeon, Essen, Germany

Sponsored breakfast symposium

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET
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Being editor of Gastric Cancer

Time: 17:10 - 17:40 CET
Yasuhiro Kodera, Director National Hospital Organization, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan

Plenary session 6 – Masaki Kitajima | Memorial Lecture

Time: 17:09 - 17:10 CET

Chairs:
Takeshi Sano, surgeon, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan and Pauli Puolakkainen, surgeon, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Session 4b: Multimodality treatment

Time: 15:30 - 17:00 CET
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Session 4a: Epidemiology / Classification

Time: 15:30 - 17:00 CET
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Tea break

Time: 14:45 - 15:30 CET

Session 3c: Quality of life / Supportive care

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Session 3b: Artificial Intelligence & precision enhancing surgery

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Coffee break

Time: 10:00 - 10:45 CET

Session 3a: Pathology / Translational research

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Coffee break

Time: 00:00 - 00:00 CET

Registration Open

Time: 12:30 - 13:30 CET

Registration Open

Time: 12:30 - 13:30 CET

Executive Committee Meeting

Time: 10:00 - 12:30 CET

3 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 12:05 - 12:15 CET

2 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 11:55 - 12:05 CET

1 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 11:45 - 11:55 CET

Classification

Time: 11:05 - 11:25 CET
Manami Inoue, Tokyo, Japan

Distribution & risk factors of gastric cancer

Time: 10:45 - 11:05 CET

Session 2c: Surgery – Innovations in gastric cancer surgery

Time: 15:30 - 17:09 CET
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Session 2b: Radiation Oncology

Time: 15:30 - 17:09 CET
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Session 2a: Medical Oncology – Targeted therapy

Time: 15:30 - 17:09 CET
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Parallel sessions 2

Time: 15:28 - 15:29 CET

Tea break

Time: 14:45 - 15:27 CET

Overview: practice changing trials in gastric cancer management

Time: 14:15 - 14:45 CET
Magnus Nilsson, surgeon, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Presidential lecture

Time: 13:45 - 14:15 CET
Yuko Kitagawa, surgeon, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Plenary session 2

Time: 13:43 - 13:44 CET

Chairs: Henk Hartgrink, surgeon, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands and Osvaldo Castro, Hospital da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Session 1c: Gastroenterology / Endoscopy / Early Gastric Cancer

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Session 1b: Medical Oncology – Immunotherapy

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Session 1a: Staging

Time: 10:45 - 12:15 CET
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Closing remarks

Time: 09:45 - 10:00 CET

Current trials in North and South America

Time: 09:30 - 09:45 CET
Brian Badgwell, surgeon, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

Current trials in Europe

Time: 09:15 - 09:30 CET
Suzanne Gisbertz, surgeon, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Current trials in China

Time: 09:00 - 09:15 CET
Zenkuan Xu, surgeon, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China

Current trials in Korea

Time: 08:45 - 09:00 CET
Seung-Wan Ryu, surgeon, Keimyung University, Dongsan Hospital in Daegu, Korea

Current trials in Japan

Time: 08:30 - 08:45 CET
Takahiro Kinoshita, surgeon, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Tokyo, Japan

Plenary session 1: Current Trials

Time: 08:28 - 08:29 CET

Chairs:
Mitsuru Sasako, surgeon, Osaka, Japan, Giovanni de Manzoni, surgeon, Verona, Italy and Ulysses Ribeiro Jr, surgeon, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Welcome reception

Time: 17:30 - 19:15 CET

17.30 – 19.15     Club Ace (Danzigerkade 15c, Amsterdam)
Welcome Address + Toast Congress President

Opening Ceremony

Time: 19:30 - 20:00 CET

Theater Amsterdam (3 min walk from Club Ace)

A special surprise program awaits!

Closing ceremony

Time: 12:20 - 12:40 CET

Parallel sessions

Time: 10:30 - 12:00 CET

Break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 CET

Plenary session 7 joint ESDE – IGCA session

Time: 08:29 - 08:30 CET

Chairs:  Mark van Berge Henegouwen, surgeon, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Yuko Kitagawa, surgeon, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and Arnulf Hölscher, surgeon, Essen, Germany

Sponsored breakfast symposium

Time: 07:30 - 08:27 CET
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Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30 CET

Session 4c: Surgery: Expanding horizons – Treatment of limited stage IV gastric cancer

Time: 15:30 - 17:00 CET
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Break

Time: 15:00 - 15:30 CET

Lunch break

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

Poster viewing

Time: 12:00 - 12:30 CET

Sponsored lunch symposium

Time: 12:30 - 13:30 CET
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Plenary session 4: Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC and prehabillitation)

Time: 08:29 - 08:30 CET

Chairs: Peter Grimminger, surgeon, Mainz, Germany, Bruno Zilberstein (surgeon, Sao Paulo, Brasil), Fatima Carneiro (pathologist, Medical Faculty of Porto and Hospital Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal) and Ken Namikawa (gastroenterologist, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan), Toshiaki Hirasawa (Gastroenterologist, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation Of Cancer Research, Japan)

Parallel sessions

Time: 10:30 - 12:00 CET

Break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 CET

Sponsored breakfast symposium

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET
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Gala dinner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00 CET

Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30 CET

Presidential dinner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00 CET

Drinks & bites

Time: 17:00 - 19:00 CET

Parallel sessions

Time: 14:28 - 14:29 CET

Sponsored lunch symposium

Time: 12:30 - 13:30 CET
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Lunch break

Time: 12:15 - 12:30 CET

Parallel sessions 1

Time: 10:43 - 12:15 CET

Coffee break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 CET

Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30 CET

Sponsored breakfast symposium

Time: 07:30 - 08:29 CET

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