2023 AGENDA

Tuesday, October 10

08:00 – 09:00

Registration and poster set-up 

09:00 – 09:15

Opening remarks

09:15 – 10:00

Keynote Address
Patrick Bossuyt, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Amsterdam

10:00 – 10:55

Inequalities in cancer detection and diagnosis

Chairs: Kate Brain, Cardiff University
Carmen Guerra, University of Pennsylvania

10:55 – 11:25

Networking break and poster session

11:25 – 12:50

Inequalities in cancer detection and diagnosis (cont)

Chairs: Kate Brain, Cardiff University
Carmen Guerra, University of Pennsylvania

12:50 – 13:50

Networking lunch and poster session

13:50 – 14:25

The Great Debate: We need to shift early detection of cancer away from medical practices and hospitals and into the community

Chair: David Crosby, Cancer Research UK

Debaters: Willie Hamilton, University of Exeter
Clare Turnbull, Institute of Cancer Research

14:25 – 15:20

Understanding pre-cancers to enable early detection

Chairs: Sam Janes, University College London
Irene Ghobrial, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

15:20 – 15:50

Networking break and poster session

15:50 – 17:15

Understanding pre-cancers to enable early detection (cont)

Chairs: Sam Janes, University College London
Irene Ghobrial, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

17:15 – 18:45

Networking drinks and poster session

Wednesday, October 11

08:00 – 09:00

Registration and poster set-up 

09:00 – 09:05

Opening remarks

09:05 – 09:40

Panel: What lessons did we learn from COVID-19 that can be applied to early cancer detection?

Chair: Jon Emery, University of Melbourne

09:40 – 10:15

The Great Debate: All cancer screening must be reserved for ‘high risk’ population

Chair: David Crosby, Cancer Research UK

Debaters: Fiona Gilbert, University of Cambridge

10:15 – 10:45

Networking break and poster session

10:45 – 13:05

Risk stratification to inform early detection

Chairs: Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, University College London (UCL)
Sapna Syngal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Speakers: Rosalind Eeles, The Institute of Cancer Research
Angela Wood, Health Data Research UK / University of Cambridge

13:05 – 14:05

Networking lunch and poster session

14:05 – 14:35

Fireside chat

14:35 – 15:10

Keynote Address
Edward Patz, Duke University School of Medicine

15:10 – 15:45

Panel: How can we integrate information coming from traditional imaging with molecular biomarkers and clinical information to aid the early detection of cancer?

Speakers: Edward Patz, Duke University School of Medicine
Caroline Dive, CRUK Manchester Institute

Shonit Punwani, University College London (UCL)

15:45 – 16:15

Networking break and poster session

16:15 – 17:15

Networking session

17:15 – 18:45

Networking drinks and poster session

19:30 – late

Conference Dinner and Don Listwin Award

Thursday, October 12

08:00 – 09:00

Registration and poster set-up 

09:00 – 09:05

Opening remarks

09:05 – 10:00

Multicancer early detection – beyond ctDNA

Chairs: Matthew Thompson, University of Washington
Claude Chelala, Queen Mary University of London

10:00 – 10:30

Networking break and poster session

10:30 – 11:55

Multicancer early detection – beyond ctDNA (cont)

Chairs: Matthew Thompson, University of Washington
Claude Chelala, Queen Mary University of London

11:55 – 12:30

Panel: Patient and Public Involvement in Early Detection Research

12:30 -13:30

Networking lunch and poster session

13:30 – 14:05

Panel: The Health Economics of Early Detection

Chair: Larry Kessler, University of Washington

14:05 – 14:50

Keynote Address

14:50 – 15:05

Conference closing remarks and poster prize winners