Kidney Cancer Patient Seminar 2008

1st RUSSIAN KIDNEY CANCER PATIENT SEMINAR with translation!

25 October 2008
Moscow - Russian Federation

Participants: patients and survivors, families, specialists in supportive care, journalists
Number of participants: 200-300
Languages: Russian (if you will need translation in English, please, contact us)

Venue of seminar: Hotel Marriott Tverskaya (1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya str, 34)

PROGRAMME

10:00 Registration and continental breakfast
10:30 Opening ceremony
10:35 Incidence and reasons of kidney cancer
10:50 "My doctor has just told that I have kidney cancer"
11:10 Diagnostics
11:25 Surgery for small tumors
11:40 Ablation is treatment option for small tumors
11:55 Traditional surgery: Radical Nephrectomy
12:10 Questions and discussion

12:40 Lunch, intercourse

13:20 Prevention after surgery: is it possible? Vaccine Oncophage
13:35 Immunotherapy: history and future
13:50 Surgical treatment for metastatic disease
14:05 Molecular targets. Sutent
14:20 Nexavar
14:35 Avastin and Interferon
14:50 Is folk medicine effective?
15:00 Treatment of bone metastasis
15:15 Questions and discussion

15:40 Coffee

16:00 Why should I participate in clinical trials?
16:10 Where can I find information about clinical trials?
16:20 To be covered in trials
16:35 Questions and discussion
16:50 "History of my disease". Patient story.
17:05 Living with cancer
17:20 "My wife/husband has cancer. How should I conduct myself?"
17:40 Without pain
18:00 We are together! Patient cooperation.

ORGANIZERS

Kidney Cancer Research Bureau

Kidney Cancer Association

American Cancer Society

REGISTRATION

FREE till 1 October 2008

After 1 October 2008 registration fee will be 1,000 Russian roubles (about 30 euro).

Please, fill in registration form.

E-mail: your e-mail address

Subject: Seminar and your full (last, first) name

Message: where are you from, who are you (patient, survivor, etc.), what do you want to hear on the Seminar, your contacts

You will receive registration number during 5 working days. You should save registration number and use it in correspondence.

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COMMUNICATION

We need informational support of mass media.

Also, we kindly ask our participants to print this page and hang it on informational desk in your hospital or working place, etc. If you have possibility, please, give advertisement about this important meeting.

CONTACTS:

Dr. Ilya Tsimafeyeu (general questions),

tel. +7 926 564 65 81, ilya@kidneytumor.org
Dr. Natalia Petenko (mass media and foreign participants),

tel. +7 926 271 76 97, petenko@kidneytumor.org

Dr. Olga Streltzova (travel and accommodation),

tel. +7 926 218 18 76, streltzova@kidneytumor.org

web-sites:

Kidney Cancer Research Bureau

Kidney Cancer Patient League