Programs

Day 1 - Friday, 26 November 2021


Time

Title

Speakers

3pm - 3.05pm

Opening Remarks

Dr. Ussama Al Homsi

Deputy Medical Director, Education, Quality and Research, National Centre for Cancer Care and Research Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

3.05pm - 3.25pm

Session 1:  Care Delivery and Regulatory Policy:

Outcomes of COVID-19 in Cancer Patients: Report from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

Dr. Ussama Al Homsi

Deputy Medical Director, Education, Quality and Research, National Centre for Cancer Care and Research Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

3.25pm - 3.45pm

Session 2:  Breast Advanced: Trastuzumab plus endocrine therapy or chemotherapy as first-line treatment for metastatic breast cancer with hormone receptor-positive and HER2-positive: The sysucc-002 randomized clinical trial

Dr. Francois Calaud

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

3.45pm - 4.05pm

Session 3: Breast advanced: Dalpiciclib versus placebo plus fulvestrant in HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer that relapsed or progressed on previous endocrine therapy (DAWNA-1): A multicenter, randomized, phase 3 study.

Dr. Mufid El Mistiri 

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 

4.05pm - 4.25pm

Session 4:  Breast Early: De-escalated neoadjuvant pertuzumab+trastuzumab with or without paclitaxel weekly in HR-/HER2+ early breast cancer: ADAPT-HR-/HER2+ biomarker and survival results

Dr. Salha Bujassoum

Director of Medical Oncology,

National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

4.25pm - 5pm

Break

5pm - 5.20pm

Session 5:  Gynae – Oncology: Optimal treatment duration of bevacizumab (BEV) combined with carboplatin and paclitaxel in patients (pts) with primary epithelial ovarian (EOC), fallopian tube (FTC) or peritoneal cancer (PPC): A multicenter open-label randomized 2-arm phase 3 ENGOT/GCIG trial of the AGO Study Group, GINECO, and NSGO (AGO-OVAR 17/BOOST, GINECO OV118, ENGOT Ov-15, NCT01462890).

Dr. Hind EL Malik

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

5.20pm - 5.40pm

Session 6: Gynae – Oncology: Mirvetuximab soravtansine, a folate receptor alpha (FRα)-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), in combination with bevacizumab in patients (pts) with platinum-agnostic ovarian cancer: Final analysis

Dr. Hind EL Malik

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

5.40pm - 6pm

Session7: Symptoms and Survivorship: The effects of geriatric assessment on oncologist-patient communication regarding functional status and physical performance in older adults with cancer: A secondary analysis of a 541-subject nationwide URCC NCORP (NCI Community Oncology Research Program) cluster randomized trial.

Dr. Azza Adel Hassan

Chief of Palliative Medicine and Fellowship Director of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

 

6pm - 6.10pm

Break

6.10pm - 6.30pm

Session 8: Supportive Care-Low Cost, High Value:

Preventing and Managing Neurology Complication of Therapy.  *

Dr. Ayman Allam

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

6.30pm - 6.50pm

Session 9: Lung Cancer: Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy in operable stage I NSCLC patients: Long-term results of the expanded STARS clinical trial *

Dr. Mohamed Riyas

MD, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, National center for cancer care and research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

6.50pm - 7.10pm

Session 10: Lung Cancer: Non-small Cell Local-regional/Small Cell/Other - Phase 3 comparison of high-dose once-daily (QD) thoracic radiotherapy (TRT) with standard twice-daily (BID) TRT in limited stage small cell lung cancer (LSCLC): CALGB 30610 (Alliance)/RTOG 0538

Dr. Saju Divakar

Consultant Radiation Oncologist, National center for cancer care and research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

7.10pm - 7.30pm

Session 11: Lung Cancer: First line nivolumab (NIVO) plus ipilimumab (IPI) plus two cycles of chemotherapy (chemo) versus chemo alone (4 cycles) in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Two-year update from CheckMate 9LA

Dr. Reyad Hassan Mohsen

Sr. Consultant Medical Oncologist, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

7.30pm - 7.50pm

Session 12: Lung Cancer: Video-assisted thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy in patients with early-stage lung cancer: One-year results from a randomized controlled trial (VIOLET).

Dr. Ehab Massad
Sr. Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.

7.50pm - 8pm

Closing Remarks

Dr. Ussama Al Homsi

Deputy Medical Director, Education, Quality and Research, National Centre for Cancer Care and Research. Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.