8 CME points from the Landesärztekammer Baden-Würrtemberg

13 May 2009: Meet the European Experts! Free Training Day on Bone Tumors in Children and Adolescents

A FREE full day training course in which experts explain the basics. Free of charge to nurses and junior doctors who attend the EMSOS meeting.                     

14-15 May 2009: 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS)
16 CME points from the Landesärztekammer Baden-Würrtemberg

Sessions on Thursday, 14th May 2009 : 08:30 - 18:00

08:30 - 10:00: Sarcomas in adolescents and young adults: Treatment as children or as adults?

Introductory Lecture presented by Jeremy Whelan, London: Teenagers and young adults with sarcoma – black sheep or just part of the crowd?

10:00 - 10:30: EMSOSS Lecture presented by Richard Gorlick, New York: Current Concepts on the Molecular Biology of Osteosarcoma

11:00 - 13:00: European projects: Cross-border sarcoma research

Key lecture presented by Pancras Hogendoorn, Leiden, Tumourogenesis in bone

14:00 - 15:45: Rare bone and soft tissue tumors (clear cell sarcoma; haemangioendothelioma; desmoplastic fibroma & disappearing bone disease)

Key Lecture presented by Jürgen Bruns, Hamburg : Clear-cell sarcoma – a review of a soft-tissue sarcoma with fatal prognosis  

16:15 - 18:00: Long term outcomes (late effects of chemotherapy;-late effects of radiotherapy; long-term operative results & quality of life)

Sessions on Friday, 15th May 2009 : 08:00 - 18:00

08:00 - 09:00: EMSOS General Assembly, Feedback from the Nurses & Allied Health Professionals & Quiz cases

10:30 - 12:30: Pediatric soft tissue sarcoma

Key Lecture presented by Ewa Koscielniak, Stuttgart: Pediatric soft tissue sarcoma as a model for rare tumors: how to intergrate clinical research with clinical practice

13:30 -14:00: Campanacci Lecture presented by Tom DeLaney

14:00 -17:00: Free papers, poster presentations, awards and closing remarks

The EMSOS and Campanacci lectures will be presented by Richard Gorlick and Tom Delaney. Free papers (10 minute oral or poster) will be selected on the basis of abstracts which can be submitted on any of the above topics through this site from 01.01.2009. 

Prizes:

• Best basic science presentation (€ 250)
• Best poster presentation (€ 250)
• Best oral presentation (€ 250)
• Best oral presentation from the Nurses and Allied Professionals' Symposium (€ 250)
• Best poster from the Nurses and Allied Professionals Symposium' (€ 250) 

Further Information

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