Agenda
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Day 1 - 14th April
| 09:00 | Welcome address | Assembly Room |
Dame Deidre Hine (Chair, Partners Forum, Wales Cancer Institute) |
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| 09:15 | Plenary Session | Assembly Room |
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Chair – Professor Chris McGuigan (Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) The story of Clofarabine Professor Christopher Wood (Executive Chairman, Nucana Biomed Ltd) |
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| 10:05 | Plenary Session | Assembly Room |
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Chair – Professor Laurence Moore (UK CRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics, Cardiff University) Tobacco cessation Professor Robert West (Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London) |
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| 10:55 - 11:15 | Refreshments | Lower Hall, Marble Hall |
Parallel Sessions |
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| 11:15 - 12:45 | 1) Cancer policy in Wales - Question and answer session with Key Welsh Assembly Members | |
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Chair - Hywel Griffith (Health Correspondent, BBC Wales) Panel
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| 11:15 - 12:45 | 2) Genomic instability | |
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Chair - Dr Duncan Baird (CR UK Senior Fellow and Reader,
School of Medicine, Cardiff University) |
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| 11:15 | Removal of covalent bound topoisomerases from DNA by MRN and Ctp1: implications for cancer drug resistance mechanisms | |
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Dr Edgar Hartsuiker (Bangor University) |
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| 11:45 | Proffered papers | |
| 12:15 | The effect of telomerase on the genomic instability and bystander signaling which is induced by low doses of CR (VI) | |
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Dr Charles Patrick Case (Bristol Implant Research Centre, Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol) |
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| 11:15 - 12:45 | 3) Clinical Trials Showcase | |
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Chair – Professor John Wagstaff (Director, Wales Cancer Trials Network) |
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| 11:20 | EXCITE & ARISTOTLE Trials | |
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Dr Simon Gollins (Consultant Clinical Oncologist, North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre, Rhyl) |
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| 11:40 | COIN Trial | |
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Professor Tim Maughan (Professor of Cancer Studies, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Velindre Hospital, Cardiff) |
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| 12:00 | FRAGMATIC Trial | |
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Dr Simon Noble (Clinical Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital) |
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| 12:20 | Modern clinical trial design and surrogate endpoints | |
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Professor Marc Buyse (CEO and Founder, International Drug Development Institute, Louvain-La-Neufe, Belgium) |
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| 11:15 - 12:45 | 4) Palliative care: a patient orientated approach Question & answer session |
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Chair – Stephanie Jones (Wales Cancer Trials Network
Consumer representative) |
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| 11:20 | Overview of end of life care strategies across the UK and lessons for Wales | |
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Dr Rachael Addicott (Senior Research Fellow, King’s Fund, London) |
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| 11:40 | District nurse palliative & end of life care education project | |
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Mel Lewis (Lead Nurse Palliative Care, Cardiff and Vale
University Local Health Board) |
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| 12:00 | Establishing equitable access for patients to palliative care research: looking for a Welsh solution | |
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Dr Anthony Byrne (Medical Director, Marie Curie Cancer Care) |
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| 12:20 | Questions to the panel | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch and poster viewing | Lower Hall, Marble Hall |
Parallel Sessions |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 | 5) Cell signalling and human cancer | |
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Chair – Professor Julian Sampson (Institute of Medical Genetics, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University) |
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| 14:00 | PI 3-kinase signalling in human cancer | |
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Professor Peter Downes (Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Dundee, Dundee) |
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| 14:45 | Proffered papers | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 6) Molecular Therapy | |
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Chair – Dr Richard Adams (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Oncology, Velindre Cancer Centre, Velindre Hospital, Cardiff) |
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| 14:00 | Overview of personalised medicine in colorectal cancer or The COIN Trial - what has it told us? | |
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Dr Richard Adams (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Oncology, Velindre Cancer Centre, Velindre Hospital, Cardiff) |
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| 14:15 | Overview of personalised treatments in breast cancer - lessons from the UK ABC Trial | |
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Professor Peter Barrett-Lee (Consultant and Clinical Oncologist, Velindre Cancer Centre, Velindre Hospital, Cardiff) |
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| 14:40 | Lung cancer and molecular medicine | |
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Dr Dean Fennell (Consultant and Senior Lecturer, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queens University, Belfast) |
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| 15:05 | Endocrine resistance in breast cancer – new targets | |
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Dr Steven Hiscox (RCUK Academic Fellow, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 | 7) Drug discovery and development – an introductory guide |
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Chair – Professor Chris McGuigan (Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) |
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| 14:00 | Molecular graphics and computer visualisation in (cancer) drug discovery | |
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Dr Andrea Brancale (Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) |
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| 14:20 | Irrational drug discovery: stumbling and (sometimes) finding | |
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Professor Chris McGuigan (Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) |
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| 14:40 | Testing of new anti-cancer drugs in the lab | |
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Professor Alan Clarke (Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University) |
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| 15:00 | Clinical trials of new drugs | |
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Professor Alan Burnett (Head of Department - Haematology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff University) |
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| 15:20 | Questions and answers | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 8) Picture of cancer in Wales | |
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Chair – Dr Ian Lewis (Scientific Director, Tenovus) |
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| 14:00 | Cancer trends in Wales, 1991-2008 | |
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Dr Ceri White (Lead Statistician, Wales Cancer Intelligence Surveillance Unit) |
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| 14:20 | Title of presentation to be confirmed | |
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Dr Alexandra Murray (Clinical Lead, Cancer Genetics Service for Wales) |
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| 14:40 | Title of presentation to be confirmed | |
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Professor John Wagstaff (Director, Wales Cancer Trials Network) |
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| 15:00 | Title of presentation to be confirmed | |
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Professor Malcolm Mason (Director of Wales Cancer Bank) |
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| 15:20 | Questions and answers | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 9) Children and young people with cancer | |
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Chair – Simon Morgan-Jones (Service Manager for Wales, CLIC Sargent) |
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| 14:00 | ‘More than my illness’ – What’s important to teenagers and young adults with cancer | |
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Simon Morgan-Jones (Service Manager for Wales, CLIC Sargent) |
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| 14:35 | The needs of children when a parent or grandparent has cancer | |
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Michele Pengelly (Specialist Nurse, Supportive Care, Velindre Cancer Centre) |
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| 14:55 | Questions and answers | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Refreshment break | Lower Hall, Marble Hall |
| 15:50 | Plenary Session | Assembly Room |
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Chair – Dr Andrew Westwell (Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University)
Professor Laurence Hurley (Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Arizona, USA) |
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| 16:40 | Plenary Session | Assembly Room |
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Chair – Libby Batt (Associate Director, Wales Cancer Trials Network) The patient experience Lynn Faulds Wood (Founder, Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign) |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | Poster viewing and drinks reception | Lower Hall |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Opportunities for commercially sponsored Satellite Symposia | |
Drug discovery - sponsored by British Association for Cancer Research (BACR)
