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Updating the QoL data from patients – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:29

07:30 – 08:30 AM This session is hosted by: Naru Ikoma

General Assembly

Time: 12:20 - 12:25

QI survey of clinical practice guidelines of EGJ cancer.

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

Chinese Gastric Cancer Association Meeting

Time: 14:45 - 15:25

BB-2

Poorly Cohesive group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OMEGA study group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 14:45 - 15:27

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

Pan American Group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 12:30

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

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

Robotic surgery group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 12:15 - 13:30

12:15 – 13:30 PM This session is hosted by: Maria Bencivenga, University Of Verona

Data bank group – External session within the IGCC congress

Time: 07:30 - 08:27

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

Presentation t.b.a

Time: 18:15 - 18:45

Presentation Congress President – President IGCA – Secretary General

Time: 18:00 - 18:15

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

Time: 09:30 - 10:00
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Council meeting

Time: 13:30 - 16:29

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

Location Strand Zuid Amsterdam. More information here: Dinner party | 16th International Gastric Cancer Congress
Tickets are needed!

Faculty diner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Vide, First floor Theater Amsterdam. (Invites only)

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

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

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

Plenary session 5 — Nishi-Takahashi | Memorial lecture

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

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

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

2 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 09:40 - 09:50

1 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 09:30 - 09:40

Prophylactic surgery

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

Endoscopic surveillance

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

Genetic changes

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

Session 5c: Videosession: How to cope with failures

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

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

Time: 10:45 - 12:15
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Coffee break

Time: 10:10 - 10:45

Physical poster session: 10:15 – 10:45 AM

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

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

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

GEJ cancer from a medical oncologist’s point of view

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

Plenary session 7 joint ESDE – IGCA session

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

Being editor of Gastric Cancer

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

Plenary session 6 – Masaki Kitajima | Memorial Lecture

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
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Session 4a: Epidemiology / Classification

Time: 15:30 - 17:00
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Tea break

Time: 14:45 - 15:30

Session 3c: Quality of life / Supportive care

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

Time: 10:45 - 12:15
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Coffee break

Time: 10:00 - 10:45

Session 3a: Pathology / Translational research

Time: 10:45 - 12:15
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Coffee break

Time: 00:00 - 00:00

Registration Open

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Registration Open

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Executive Committee Meeting

Time: 10:00 - 12:30

Executive Committee Meeting will be held in REM Amsterdam REM Amsterdam – Restaurant | Bar | Rooftop Haparandadam 45-2, 1013 AK Amsterdam (5min walk from Theater Amsterdam)

3 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 12:05 - 12:15

2 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 11:55 - 12:05

1 – accepted oral abstract

Time: 11:45 - 11:55

Classification

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

Distribution & risk factors of gastric cancer

Time: 10:45 - 11:05

Session 2c: Surgery – Innovations in gastric cancer surgery

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

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

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

Tea break

Time: 14:45 - 15:27

Overview: practice changing trials in gastric cancer management

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

Presidential lecture

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

Plenary session 2

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
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Session 1b: Medical Oncology – Immunotherapy

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

Time: 10:45 - 12:15
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Closing remarks

Time: 09:45 - 10:00

Current trials in North and South America

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

Current trials in Europe

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

Current trials in China

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

Current trials in Korea

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

Current trials in Japan

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

Plenary session 1: Current Trials

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

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

Opening Ceremony

Time: 19:30 - 20:00

Theater Amsterdam (3 min walk from Club Ace)

A special surprise program awaits!

Closing ceremony

Time: 12:25 - 12:40

Parallel sessions

Time: 10:30 - 12:00

Break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Plenary session 7 joint ESDE – IGCA session

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

Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30

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

Time: 15:30 - 17:00
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Break

Time: 15:00 - 15:30

Lunch break

Time: 12:15 - 12:30

Physical poster session: 12:30 – 13:00 PM

Poster viewing

Time: 12:00 - 12:30

Sponsored lunch symposium

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

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)

Parallel sessions

Time: 10:30 - 12:00

Break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Sponsored breakfast symposium

Time: 07:30 - 08:29
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Gala dinner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30

Presidential dinner

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Drinks & bites

Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Parallel sessions

Lunch break

Time: 12:15 - 12:30

Physical poster session: 12:30  – 13:00 PM

Parallel sessions 1

Coffee break

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Registration open

Time: 07:00 - 07:30

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