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  • Wednesday, June 28, 2023
  • 10:00 – 12:30 CEST
    EORTC Early Career Investigator Workshop: Why to Become An EORTC Investigator
  • 11:15 – 12:45 CEST
    Concurrent Lunch Symposia
  • 13:00 – 13:45 CEST
    Session I: Opening Session

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

    Chair: Josep Tabernero, MD – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

  • 13:45 – 17:35 CEST
    Session II: Cancer of the Pancreas

    Chair: Eileen M. O'Reilly, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

  • 15:45 – 16:15 CEST
    Break
  • 15:45 – 16:30 CEST
    ESMO Vesalius Talk: Finding the Balance Between Clinic and Research - From Clinician Scientists to Clinical Research
  • 17:35 – 18:55 CEST
    Session III: Cancer of the Biliary Tract

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

    Chair: Teresa Macarulla, MD, PhD – Vall d’Hebrón University Hospital

  • 19:10 – 20:40 CEST
    Concurrent Nonprofit Symposia
  • Thursday, June 29, 2023
  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session IV: ESMO Session: Focus on Young Oncologists (YO) in Collaboration With ESMO Young Oncologist Committee (YOC)

    Session Chair: Andrés Cervantes, MD, PhD – Biomedical Research institute INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Hospital Clínico de Valencia

    Session Chair: Deniz Can Güven, MD – Hacettepe University Cancer Institute

    Session Chair: Rille Pihlak, MD, PhD – St Bart's Hospital

  • 08:00 – 09:35 CEST
    Session V: Presentation of Selected Non-Colorectal Cancer Abstracts – Biliary Tract and Pancreatic Cancer

    Chair: Andrzej Deptala – Medical University of Warsaw

    Chair: Gerald Prager, MD – Medizinische Universität Wien

  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session VI: Presentation of Selected Non-Colorectal Cancer Abstracts - Esophageal and Stomach Cancers

    Chair: Florian Lordick, MD, PhD – Leipzig University Medical Center

    Chair: Anna D. Wagner, MD – Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne

  • 08:00 – 08:45 CEST
    Session VII: Meet the Experts: How to Select Patients for TKIs in HCC?

    Session Chair: Arndt Vogel, MD – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

  • 09:30 – 10:00 CEST
    Break and Poster Viewing
  • 10:00 – 13:15 CEST
    Session VIII: Esophageal and Gastric Cancers

    Chair: Sara De Dosso, MD – Medical Oncology Department, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

    Chair: Kohei Shitara, MD – National Cancer Center Hospital East

  • 13:15 – 13:30 CEST
    Break
  • 13:30 – 15:00 CEST
    Concurrent Lunch Symposia
  • 15:15 – 18:25 CEST
    Session IX: Hepatocellular Cancer

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

    Chair: Angela Lamarca, MD, PhD – Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital

  • 17:10 – 17:40 CEST
    Break and Poster Viewing
  • 17:10 – 17:55 CEST
    ESMO Lounge Session: Is Palliative/Supportive Care Different in GI Cancers?

    Session Chair: Deniz Can Güven, MD – Hacettepe University Cancer Institute

    Session Chair: Rille Pihlak, MD, PhD – St Bart's Hospital

  • 18:25 – 19:15 CEST
    Session X: World GI 25th Anniversary Special Session

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

    Chair: Josep Tabernero, MD – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

  • 19:30 – 20:30 CEST
    25th Anniversary Celebration Reception; Travel Grant and Young Investigator Award Ceremony
  • Friday, June 30, 2023
  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XI: Presentation of Selected Abstracts: Colorectal Cancer

    Chair: Fortunato Ciardiello, MD, PhD – Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

    Chair: Juan Manuel O'Connor, MD, MSc – Instituto Alexander Fleming

  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XII: Minisymposium: The Role of Functional Imaging in GI Cancer

    Chair: Christophe M. Deroose, Prof. Dr. – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

    Chair: Radka Obermannova, MD, PhD – Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and Masaryk University

  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XIII: GI Cancer in Elderly: Challenges and Prospects (includes IO in elderly)
  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XIV: WCGIC: Molecular Marker Platforms: Focus on Liquid Biopsies

    Chair: Pierre Laurent-Puig, MD. PhD – Université Paris Cité

    Chair: Clara Montagut, MD, PhD – Hospital del Mar

    Chair: Josep Tabernero, MD – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

  • 09:30 – 10:30 CEST
    Session XV: Emerging Targets in GI Cancer

    Chair: Fatima Carneiro, MD, PhD – Institute of Pathology and Molecular Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP)

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

  • 10:30 – 11:00 CEST
    Break and Poster Viewing
  • 10:30 – 11:00 CEST
    Poster Discussion Guided Tours - Group 7: Colon Cancer I
  • 10:30 – 11:00 CEST
    Poster Discussion Guided Tours - Group 8: Colon Cancer II
  • 11:00 – 13:15 CEST
    Session XVI: Rectal Cancer

    Chair: André JL D'Hoore, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

    Chair: Erika Martinelli, MD, PhD – Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

  • 13:15 – 13:30 CEST
    Break
  • 13:30 – 15:00 CEST
    Concurrent Lunch Symposia
  • 15:15 – 16:40 CEST
    Session XVII: Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Treatment of Colon Cancer

    Chair: John L. Marshall, MD – Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

  • 16:45 – 17:15 CEST
    Break and Poster Viewing
  • 16:45 – 17:30 CEST
    ESMO Lounge Session: Complex Clinical Trials in GI Cancers: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
  • 17:15 – 18:30 CEST
    Session XVIII: Immune Mechanisms and Microbiome in GI Tumors

    Chair: Sara De Dosso, MD – Medical Oncology Department, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

    Chair: Josep Tabernero, MD – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

  • 18:30 – 19:15 CEST
    Session XIX: Predicting and Managing Rare Toxicities in Patients With GI Cancers

    Chair: Shouki Bazarbashi, MBBS – King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center-Riyadh

    Chair: Elena Elez, Sr., MD PhD – Vall Hebron University Hospital

    Chair: Demetris Papamichael, MB BS FRCP – Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre

  • Saturday, July 1, 2023
  • 08:00 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XX: Presentation of Selected Abstracts: Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

    Chair: Irit Ben-Aharon, MD, PhD – Rambam Health Care Campus

    Chair: Per Pfeiffer – Odense University Hospital

  • 08:15 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XXI: Artificial Intelligence in GI Oncology

    Chair: Sara De Dosso, MD – Medical Oncology Department, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

    Chair: Mario A. Dicato, MD – Luxembourg Medical Center

  • 08:30 – 09:25 CEST
    Session XXII: Surgical Advances in GI Oncology

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

    Chair: Cathy Eng, MD, FACP, FASCO – Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

    Chair: Thomas Gruenberger, MD – Clinic Favoriten, Dept Surgery, HPB Center, health network Vienna Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna

  • 09:30 – 13:15 CEST
    Session XXIII: Colorectal Cancer: Metastatic Disease

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

  • 11:40 – 12:10 CEST
    Break and Poster Viewing
  • 13:30 – 15:00 CEST
    Concurrent Lunch Symposia
  • 15:15 – 16:35 CEST
    Session XXIV: GI Oncology: Past, Present, and Future

    Chair: Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD – University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven

    Chair: Josep Tabernero, MD – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

    Chair: Michel P. Ducreux, MD, PhD – Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay