Programme at a Glance

Auditorium VII

Auditorium VIII

Auditorium VI

capacity: 400

capacity: 200–300

capacity: 200–300

9:15

BREAST

Educational Workshop:

Strategies for Targeted Axillary Dissection –
Tips and Tricks

COLORECTAL

Educational Workshop:

Techniques and Selected Topics

INTERDISCIPLINARY

DRAGON’s DEN:

Opportunity to Pitch your Trial Proposals
to a Panel of Experts

11:15

11:45

Opening Session
& Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture

12:35

Scientific Symposium

Women in Surgery & ESSO Medal lecture

13:35

13:45

Satellite Symposium 1

13:45–14:45

Young Mentorship Session

13:45–14:45

Satellite Symposium 2

13:45–14:45

14:45

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Advances in Surgical Oncology

HPB

Educational Workshop:

Setting up a Successful International Multicenter Registry

H&N/THYROID

Scientific Symposium:

Shaping Surgical Management in DTC; is less more?

16:15

16:45

HPB

Scientific Symposium:

Surgery of Tomorrow

UGI

Scientific Symposium:

Upper GI Cancer Update

SARCOMA

Scientific Symposium:

Refining the Approach to Retroperitoneal Sarcoma

18:15

19:30

Auditorium VII

Auditorium VIII

Auditorium VI

capacity: 400

capacity: 200–300

capacity: 200–300

8:30

COLORECTAL

Meet-the-Expert session:

MRI Imaging in Rectal Cancer

BREAST

Meet-the-Expert session:

Surgical Techniques for the Prevention
& management of Lymphedema

MELANOMA

Education workshop:

Prevention and Screening in UV-related Cancers

9:30

BREAST

Debate:

Breast Conservative Surgery should be Offered for Multicentric Tumours

COLORECTAL

Debate:

Should a D3 lymphadenectomy be standard
in colon cancer?

UPPER GI

Debate:

Tumor Biology in Gastric Cancer is Different Between Eastern and Western Countries

11:00

11:30

Interdisciplinary:

AntiCancer Fund session

Clinical Research in Surgical Oncology:
Integrating Multiple Disciplines

MELANOMA

Scientific Session:

Stage III/IV Disease in Melanoma

H&N/THYROID

Debate:

Shaping the Future

13:00

Break

Young Mentorship session:

13:15–14:15

Break

13:15

Satellite Symposium 3

13:15–14:15

Satellite Symposium 4

13:15–14:15

14:15

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Partner Societies' Session

15:15

15:45

GI/CRC INTERDISCIPLINARY

Scientific Symposium:

Female/Male Cancer Outcomes

HPB

Edutactional Workshop:

How to Implement a Laparoscopic/Robotic HPB Programme?

MELANOMA

Debate:

Is Perioperative Treatment for Locoregional /Oligometastatic Reserctable Melanoma more effective than Adjuvant Treatment alone?

16:45

COLORECTAL

Scientific Symposium:

Locally Advanced Colorectal Cancer

BREAST

Scientific Symposium:

Artificial Intelligence in Breast Cancer

UGI

Scientific Symposium:

OG Hot Topics

18:15

ESSO General Assembly

19:15

Auditorium VII

Auditorium VIII

Auditorium VI

capacity: 400

capacity: 200-300

capacity: 200-300

8:30

HPB

Meet-the-Expert session:

Lessons after a surgeon’s life – What would I do differently? What would I recommend?

UGI

Educational Workshop:

Complication Management
in Upper GI Cancer Surgery

H&N/THYROID

Educational Workshop:

Surgical Techniques for Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Repair after Various Mechanisms of Injury

9:30

COLORECTAL

Scientific Symposium:

Early Colorectal Cancer

UGI

ESSO-ESOI Educational Workshop:

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours – presentation, management and case discussion

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Scientific Symposium:

Patient’s Advocacy Session

11:00

11:30

BREAST

Scientific Symposium:

Management of Local Recurrences

HPB

Debate:

All Pancreatic Cancer Patients should receive Neoadjuvant Therapy before Resection

SARCOMA

Educational Workshop:

Neoadjuvant Therapies in Sarcomas

13:00

13:30

Breast

HPB

UGI

colorectal

sarcoma

H&N/Thyroid

Miscellaneous (interdisciplinary)

melanoma