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Sunday 18 th September 2022
CET | In person/online | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
9:30-10:00 | REGISTRATION | |||
10:00 – 10:10 | In person | Welcome address by GYNOCARE COST Action Chair | Jean Calleja Agius | University of Malta |
10.10-10.20 | In person | Welcome address by Head of Local Organising Committee | Gligor Tofoski | University of North Macedonia |
10.20-10.30 | In person | Introduction on Medical Faculty and Importance of Research Collaboration and Training for Medical Doctors | Ana Daneva Markova | Vice-dean for specializations and sub-specializations, Skopje Medical Faculty |
10:30 – 11:00 | Online | Why should we treat rare tumours differently? | Nicholas Reed | Beatson Oncology Centre (BOC), Glasgow, United Kingdom |
11.00- 11.30 | Online | Review on epithelial ovarian cancer types (endometrioid, clear cell, low grade serous and mucinous) | C Simon Herrington | Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, UK |
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break | |||
12:00 – 12:30 | In person | The Liquid Biopsy in Rare Gynaecological Cancers | Sharon O'Toole | Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
12.30-13.00 | In person | Surveillance of rare female genital tumors in Europe: an update of frequency and outcome | Gemma Gatta | Istituto Nazionale di Tumori, Milan, Italy |
13.00 – 13:30 | In person | From Knowledge to Clinical Practice | Riccardo Audisio | UK |
13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch | |||
14:30-14:55 | In person | Pharmacological therapies investigated in clinical trials for rare gynaecological cancers | Klejda Harasani | University of Medicine Tirana, Albania |
14:55- 15.15 | In person | Cancer of the uterine cervix in Bulgaria – epidemiology of a crisis | Mariela Vasileva Slaveva | Medical University Pleven, Pleven, Bulgaria |
15.15-15.35 | Online | Joint cancer screening patterns among women | Noya Galan | University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel |
15.35-16.00 | In person | Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of the Breast and Cell Blocks – the experience in North Macedonia | Ljube Ivkovski | University of North Macedonia |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |||
16:30-18:30 | MC meeting | Jean Calleja Agius and MC members | ||
19:00 meet point in front of the building of Delegation of European Union | Tour guide at Old bazar |
Monday 19th September 2022
CET | In person/online | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
9:00 | In person | Opening of Day 2 of the Training School | Jean Calleja-Agius | Chair of GYNOCARE COST Action |
9:05-9:25 | In person | Neuroendocrine tumours – rare tumours and rare localisations | Aleksandar Celebic | Institute of Oncology, Clinical Center of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro |
9:25-9.45 | In person | Multimodality treatment in ovarian cancer. Present and future | Milan Paul Kubelac | The Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta” Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
9.45-10.05 | In person | Fertility spareing approach in “bulky” cervical cancer in young patients- A place of neoadjuvant chemotherapy | Alojsa Mandic | University of Novi Sad, Medical faculty, Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia |
10:05-10.30 | In person | Rare vulval and vaginal tumors – cases from the practice | Angel Jordanov | Medical University Pleven, Bulgaria |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | 10:00 – 11:00 | PRESS CONFERENCE | |
11:00- 11:20 | Online | Soft tissue tumors of the vulva – molecular changes as an important tool for diagnosis | Ana Felix | Universida de NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |
11:20 – 11.40 | Online | Cervical cancer in pregnancy: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital Data | Daiva Vaitkiene | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania |
11.40-12.00 | In person | Biobanking – the experience in Serbia | Danica Cujic | Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy, University of Belgrade, Serbia |
12.00 – 12.30 | In person | Statistics of Rare Gynaecological Cancers in North Macedonia | Vjosa Ibrahimi | University of North Macedonia |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |||
13:30 – 14:00 | In person | Confusing Symptoms And Laboratory Tests Leading To The Diagnosis Of Mixed Germ Cell Tumor Of The Ovaries-Case Report | Goran Dimitrov | University Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology University ‘Ss Cyril and Methodius” – Skopje, North Macedonia |
14:00 – 14:30 | Online | Artificial Intelligence in Cervical Screening | John O’Leary | Department of Pathology, The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital,& Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
14.30-15.00 | Online | ELSI in the field of biobanking | Olga Tzortzatou & | Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens Greece |
15.00- 15:30 | Coffee break | |||
15:30 – 17:30 | Satellite Symposium from the Aula Multimediale ANT, Bologna, Italy: Telemedicine in Therapeutic Assistance particularly in Oncology | See separate agenda; includes Jean Calleja Agius, Gligor Tofosk, Vera Dimitrievska as speakers | Francesco Pegreffi | Associazione Nazionale di Tumori (ANT) and Univeristy of Bologna, Italy |
19:00 Meet point in front of the Building of Delegation of European Union | Tour and Dinner | Separate agenda | Jean Calleja Agius and MC members |
Tuesday 20th September 2022
CET | In person/online | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
Session 1 | Opening of Day 3 of the Training School | Jean Calleja-Agius | Chair of GYNOCARE COST Action | |
9:05-9:25 | Online | Biomarkers and Immunotherapy in gynecological cancers | Tamara Visekruna | Oncology Clinic, University Clinical Centre of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka |
9.30-10.00 | Online | Multi-omics exploration of gynecological cancers | Yashwanth Subbannayya | Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), NTNU, Trondheim, Norway |
10.00-10.30 | In person | The use of new molecular tehnologies and their implication on diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic decisions on gynecological cancer | Aleksandar Petlickovski | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Medical Faculty, North Macedonia |
10:30 – 10.50 | Coffee break | |||
10:50 – 11:20 | In person | Genetics of Breast and Gynecological Cancers | Dijana Plashevska | University of North Macedonia |
11:20 – 11:50 | In person | How to study the role of non-coding RNAs in the pathology of rare gynecological cancers in vitro | Petar Ozretic | Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia |
11.50 – 12.05 | ?Online | A case of autoimmune NMDA encephalitis in a woman with a tubal teratoma | Cristina Clare Gallego de Largy | Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander. Spain |
12.05-12.30 | In person | Incidental gonadal germ cell tumors diagnosed in prophylactic gonadectomy material in patients with Swyer syndrome | Neli Basheska | Department of Histopathology and Clinical Cytology, University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of N. Macedonia |
12:35 – 13.00 | In person | Setting up a register for rare cancers | Neville Calleja | University of Malta |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00 – 14:20 | Pre-recorded | Rare gynecological malignancies – a health problem due to limited oncological therapeutic | Violeta Klisarovska | University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology, North Macedonia |
14:20 – 14.40 | In person | Endometrial Cancer. Clinical morphological and molecular genetic aspect | Irina Tripac | Institute of Oncology of Moldova, Moldova |
14.40-15.10 | Online | Individualized approaches in endometrial cancer: an opportunity for better management of rare uterine corpus cancer | Iztok Takac | University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia |
15.10-15.30 | In person | Integrative Omics Strategies for Rare Gynecological Diseases | Sureyya Ozcan | Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey |
15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | |||
16.00-16.30 | Online | Precision Medicine in Cancer | Antonio Giordano | Sbarro Research Health Organisation (SHRO), Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University in Philadelphia, USA |
16.30-16.50 | In person | Rare Ovarian Cancers | Kubelka Keti | University of North Macedonia |
16.50-17.10 | Online | Personalised treatment of triple-negative breast cancer using novel biomarkers | Irena Pruszynska | Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
17.10 – 17:30 | Pre-recorded | Does space Travel increase the risk of gynecological cancer? | Afshin Behetshi | KBR at NASA Ames Research Center, USA |