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BASO~ACS Annual Scientific Conference 2013

4th & 5th November 2013, Royal College of Surgeons

Ronald Raven Prize Papers:

Proteomic Identification of Predictive Biomarkers of Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy Resistance in Breast Cancer: A possible role of AkT-1, FAKY397, 14-3-3 theta/tau, tBID and BcL-XL?	Tasadooq Hussain
Extramural venous invasion (EMVI) is a potential imaging predictive biomarker in rectal cancer	Manish Chand
A study of Lamin A/C mRNA expression in human breast cancer and potential implications regarding the role of nuclear stability in breast carcinogenesis	Umar Wazir
Imaging of breast cancer morphology using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy: Towards a novel imaging tool for real-time intra-operative cavity scanning	Tou Pin Chang
Death Associated Protein 3: in vivo and in vitro evidence for a pro-apoptotic role in human breast cancer	Umar Wazir

Parallel papers - Session 1:

Clinical outcome after surgical treatment of soft tissue sarcoma in the elderly and very elderly	Philipp Lechler
Survival outcome of operated and non-operated elderly patients with rectal cancer: a SEER analysis	Aneel Bhangu
Angiosarcomas in the Older Population - Experience of the East Midlands Sarcoma Service	Vi Vien Toh
Age should not be used to determine fitness for hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases	Declan Dunne
Uncertain value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in cholangio-carcinoma	Matthew Parry
The impact of patient fitness on the cost of hepatectomy	Declan Dunne

Sloane Audit:

Update

Professor Alastair Thompson

Plenary Session 4th November:

Cancer surgery in the elderly assessing and coping with frailty	Prof Riccardo Audisio
Pelvic resections in the older cancer patient	Professor Paris Tekkis
Liver resections in the elderly	Mr Stephen Fenwick
Breast cancer in the elderly - should we always operate?	Ms Lynda Wyld
Breast radiotherapy after conservation in the elderly - is it really needed?	Dr Charlotte Coles
MAMMO 50 trial	Mr Peter Donnelly

SOTA Prize papers:

Pre-operative Tumour Marker Status Predicts Recurrence and Survival after Complete Cytoreduction and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: Outcome in 519 patients	Panos Taflampas (ASGBI)
Is plasma fibrinogen a novel independent prognostic factor in patients undergoing surgery for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?	Matthew Smith (SCTS)

Keynote Address:

The Medical Innovation Bill (Audio Only)	Lord Maurice Saatchi
Getting it right first time - lessons for us all	Professor Tim Briggs

EJSO Lecture:

Professor Michael Baum

Plenary Session 5th November:

Hereditary pancreatic disease and cancer	Mr Richard Charnley
Challenges to clinical trial recruitment in the young	Professor Bridget Young
Breast cancer in pregnancy	Professor Sibylle Loibl
Sarcoma in children and young adults	Professor Rob Grimer
Thyroid malignancy in young adults	Mr Radu Mihai
Preserving fertility before cancer treatment	Dr Allan Pacey

BJS Prize papers:

Pre-operative HistoscanningTM as an adjunct to preoperative staging improves complete excision rates for locally advanced prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy	Nicholas Faure-Walker
POBRAD Trial: Prospective trial evaluating outcomes of immediate implant breast reconstruction using an acellular dermal matrix	Michael Douek
Ipad based Applications have the potential to revolutionise cancer data collection	Vinod Mathen
The SentiMAG Multicentre Trial: sentinel node biopsy using a magnetic technique versus the standard technique	Michael Douek
Inaccurate coding of complex breast surgery may lead to misleading surgeon specific outcomes	Kenneth Keogh
Malignancy risk in ultrasound detected gallbladder polyps: A systematic review	Declan Dunne

Parallel papers - Session 2:

Alistair Slesser
Neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy does not improve local recurrence rates in mucinous rectal cancer	Manish Chand
Does height of rectal cancer influence oncological outcome?	Aneel Bhangu
The Role of Selective Internal Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Liver Malignancies	John Moir

Parallel papers - Session 3:

Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy up-regulates expression of Breast Cancer Resistance Protein, but only pre-treatment levels predict survival	Baek Kim
Magnetic sentinel node and occult lesion localization (MagSNOLL) in an in vivo porcine model	Muneer Ahmed
Cytokeratin-19 based one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) should not replace histopathology for sentinel lymph node assessment in breast cancer: a meta-analysis	Jim Tiernan
Use of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Programme in an Onco-plastic surgical setting	Daniel Jordan
Surgical Consent - The World’s Largest Chinese Whisper?	Dafydd Loughran
BAG-1L overexpression promotes a tumour-like phenotype in a three-dimensional model of mammary morphogenesis	Hashim Syed

BJS Lecture:

Reducing morbidity after breast cancer surgery

Dr Suzanne Klimberg

Alan Edwards Poster Prize:

Intra-operative Faxitron imaging reduces re-excision rates for wide local excisions for palpable breast cancers	Elizabeth Li
Evaluation of One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA) molecular assay for intraoperative diagnosis of sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis	Ammara Hasan
Systematic review and meta-analysis of radio-guided versus wire-guided localization in the treatment of non-palpable breast cancers	Muneer Ahmed
A systematic review and meta-analysis of intra-operative ultrasound versus wire-guided localization in the surgical management of non-palpable breast cancers	Muneer Ahmed
A study of macrophage Activatory to Inhibitory FcɣR ratio in HER2+ breast cancer	Jamie Varun Krishnan
Low MAD2 protein expression is a predictor of poor outcome after chemotherapy and radiotherapy in oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer patients	Elma O’Reilly

Ernst Miles Lecture:

Early rectal tumors - progress made and challenges ahead

Mr Neil Borley