August 20 (Thursday)
7:45-8:30 AM Breakfast/Poster Set up in
Atrium; Registration/Meeting table on lower level
8:30-8:40 AM Opening Remarks and Welcome
- Giuseppe Giaccone
8:40-8:50 AM The Foundation of Thymic
Cancer Research– Alan Neibauer
Epidemiology and biology
Chairs: R. Gress and A. Marx
8:50 AM Epidemiology of Thymic Malignancies –
Eric Engles
9:20 AM AIRE
issues in thymoma- Alexander Marx
9:50 AM Autoimmune
syndromes and thymoma: Myasthenia Gravis and others- Arthur Melms
10:20-10:40 AM Coffee/Break
and Poster Viewing in Atrium
10:40 AM The Thymus and the Immune System -
Ronald E. Gress
11:10 AM Biology of Thymic tumors – Philipp
Strobel
11:40 PM Round Table: Research Issues in Immune
disorders due to thymic malignancies
12:10-1:10 PM Lunch
Break (on own) in Natcher Cafeteria and Poster Viewing in Atrium
Pathology, imaging and
natural history of thymomas
Chairs: Maria Merino and James
Huang
1:10 PM The WHO classification of thymic
malignancies Michael Den Bakker
1:40 PM The need for a new classification – Cesar
Moran
2:10 PM Molecular Classification of Thymic
Malignancies - Ignacio Wistuba
2:40-3:00 PM Coffee/Break
and Poster Viewing in Atrium
3:00 PM Imaging Techniques – Edith Marom
3:30 PM Clinical and Surgical Staging – Akira
Masaoka
4:00 PM Case Presentations - Arun Rajan
4:30 PM Thymoma Foundation Patient Advocacy
Group - Alan Blaustein
5:00 PM Round Table: Research issues in
pathologic and clinical staging
5:30 PM Adjourn
of general meeting
5:30-7 PM Global Consortium
Meeting
7:15-9:30 PM Speaker’s
Reception and Dinner at FAES House (sponsored by FTCR)
August 21(Friday)
7:30-8:30 AM GCSTM committee briefing in
E1/E2
7:45-8:30 AM Breakfast and Poster
Viewing in Atrium
Treatment options for Early
Stage Thymic Malignancies
Chairs: Frank Detterbeck and Ritsuko Komaki
8:30 AM Surgery for primary thymomas – Frank
C. Detterbeck
9:00 AM Extended surgery for Thymic
Malignancies – Cameron D. Wright
9:30 AM Reresection of recurrent disease –
Marco Lucchi
10:00 AM Adjuvant Radiotherapy—Charles Thomas Jr.
10:30 AM Role of chemotherapy in resectable
thymoma- Edward Kim
11:00-11:20 AM Coffee/Break
and Poster Viewing in Atrium
11:20-11:35 AM Proffered Paper #1- Ritsuko Komaki
11:35-11:50 AM Proffered Paper #2-Angela Vincent
11:50 AM-12:05 PM Proffered Paper #3- Maureen Zakowski
12:05-12:20 PM Proffered Paper #4-by Nicolas
Girard
12:20-1:20 PM Lunch
Break (on own) in Natcher Cafeteria and Poster Viewing in Atrium
Chairs: Cesar Moran and Maureen
Zakowski
1:20 PM Therapy for thymoma and thymic
carcioma in Japan-Kazoya Kondo
1:50 PM Round Table: Research issues for
early thymic malignancies
Treatment options for
Advanced Thymic Malignancies
Chairs: Patrick Loehrer and
Giuseppe Giaccone
2:20 PM Chemotherapy for Thymic Malignancies
– Patrick J. Loehrer
2:50 PM Targeted therapy in Thymic Neoplasms
– Giuseppe Giaccone
3:10-3:20 PM Coffee/Break and Poster Viewing
in Atrium
3:20 PM Combined modality therapy – Gregory
Riely
3:50 PM Survivorship issues in thymic
malignancies – Ola Landgren
4:20 PM Round Table: Research issues in
advanced thymoma
4:50- 5:00PM Closing Remarks- Giaccone
5:00-5:20 PM Adjourn
and Poster Removal
