Massachusetts General Hospital

Advances in Cancer Management for the Surgeon

Date: 11/09/2011 - 11/10/2011
Contact: Kolleen Kosowicz, kkosowicz@partners.org

Description:
The objective of this course is to present surgeons with recent advances in cancer management in a manner that allows them to use the information in their surgical practices. This course covers the most relevant and recent information regarding diagnosis and staging, surgical techniques, avoidance and management of complications, and adjuvant therapies, with an emphasis on gastrointestinal malignancies, breast cancer, hepatobiliary malignancies, endocrine neoplasms, and melanoma. The criteria for selecting faculty are clinical expertise and teaching efficacy, based on feedback from participants. The course has been structured to provide more time for participants to interact with faculty through discussion involving each of these areas, presentation of interesting cases, panel interactions, and surgical technique workshops. New this year, we have increased the popular hands-on surgical technique workshops offered to six, allowing course attendees to participate in four separate workshops. These sessions will teach participants how to integrate the most current surgical oncology concepts into clinical practice. We will also include more intra-operative video to compliment the lecture material. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to participate in a Community Tumor Board with case presentations being drawn directly from the audience.

Agenda:

Offered By

Massachusetts General Hospital
Division of Surgical Oncology

Course Directors

James C. Cusack, Jr., M.D. and Michele A. Gadd, M.D.

For More Info

For more information, please contact Kolleen Kosowicz, Course Administrator, at 617-726-8290 or kkosowicz@partners.org.

Preregistration required? yes

Registration closed? no