Tuesday, 2 Sept
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ECP 2014 ·
London
Scientific Programme
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Tuesday
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014
SY-17
Symposium
08:30 – 12:00
ICC Auditorium
Digestive Diseases Pathology
Basics of invasion and metastasis in can-
cers of the digestive system
Chairs:
Thomas Kirchner,
Germany
Nick A. Wright,
United Kingdom
001
08:30 – 09:00
Stem cells in cancer: Instigators and propa-
gators
Nick A. Wright,
United Kingdom
002
09:00 – 09:30
The gastrointestinal tumour microenviron-
ment and its role for cancer progression
Florian Greten,
Germany
003
10:30 – 11:00
RTK-Ras-signaling as driver of invasion and
metastasis in colon cancer
David Horst,
Germany
004
11:00 – 11:30
Perineural invasion in cancers of the diges-
tive system
Gustavo Ayala,
USA
005
11:30 – 12:00
Factors indicating a risk of distant metasta-
sis for carcinomas of the digestive system
Iris Nagtegaal,
The Netherlands
Spec-SY-08 Special Session Path Soc
08:30 – 12:00
ICC Capital Suite 7/12
Undergraduates /Pathological Society
Undergraduate Forum
Chairs:
Richard Byers,
United Kingdom
John McDermott,
United Kingdom
001
08:30 – 08:45
Introduction & update on the undergraduate
network
002
08:45 – 09:00
Assessing the genetic mechanism of growth
of adenomas in familial adenomatous polyp-
osis patients
Kate Sutton,
United Kingdom
H. Wood, P. Quirke
003
09:00 – 09:15
Increasing undergraduate involvement in
pathology through the development of a Na-
tional Pathology Network
John McDermott,
United Kingdom
M. Booth, K. Sutton, M. Back
004
09:15 – 09:30
Molecular testing for mutations improves
pre-operative management of patients with
thyroid nodules
Alyce Hayes,
United Kingdom
R. Dina, L. Foroni, M. Valganon
005
10:30 – 10:45
Variation in pre-analytical DNA extraction
from FFPE material leads to missed muta-
tions in clinical cancer diagnostics
Joshua Kapp,
United Kingdom
I. Schrijver, L. Jennings, G. Tsongalis, M. Li,
D. Gonzalez-de-Casro, A. Wallace, R. Butler,
J. Spicer, J. Bridge, R. Hamoudi
006
10:45 – 11:00
Loss of imprinting of insulin-like growth fac-
tor 2 (IGF2) in thymic tumours
Cornelia Maria Paul,
Germany
C. Sauer, B. Schalke, A. Marx, D. Belharazem
007
11:00 – 11:15
Leptomeningeal melanocytic tumours: A
pathologic and molecular study on 28 patients
Gabrielle Goldman-Levy,
France
A. de la Fouchardière, V. Costes, V. Rigau
11:15 – 12:00
A structured debate contesting the state-
ment “Clinical pathology experience should
not be a priority in today’s undergraduate
curriculum”:
Against (for pathology in curriculum)
Michael Wells,
United Kingdom
John McDermott,
United Kingdom
For (against pathology in curriculum)
Nigel Kirkham,
United Kingdom
Morgan Back,
United Kingdom
