2024 Annual Scientific Meeting Program

The program for our 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting is now live, inlcuding our first Sarcoma Community Connection!

This year, we are excited to host many robust discussions around the research and findings of sarcoma in Australia and New Zealand as well as worldwide.This year the meeting is being held in conjunction with ISOLS, find the whole program here.

Thursday - 10 October

Sarcoma Community Connection

Convenor Sarah Cheung

9:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks | Sarah Cheung

9:15am Patient Experience | Harry Mullen

9:25am Current ANZSA Sponsored Ewing Sarcoma Trials | Marianne Phillips

9:35am Pathology – We’ve Got Your Back | Fiona Maclean

9:45am Surgery & Reconstruction Techniques for Ewings | Richard Boyle

9:55am Radiation Therapy Dose & Technique for Ewings | Angela Hong

10:05am Taking Care of Carers | Susan Johnson

10:15am Morning Tea & Networking

10:45am Patient Experience | Peter Flaskas

10:55am Choose Your Own Workshop

• Option 1: Meditation & Reflective Space | Karen Thrussell & Natalia Dewiyani
• Option 2: Explore and Connect. An Art Psychotherapy Approach to Self-Awareness and Self-Care | Kate Palmer

11:30am Patient Experience | Kaela Graham - Bowman

11:45am Closing Remarks | Sarah Cheung

12:00pm Lunch | ANZSA Poster Viewing Session

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Thursday - 10 October

Australia & New Zealand Sarcoma Association Annual Scientific Meeting

2.00pm Welcome | David Gyorki

2.05pm TBC | Jayesh Desai

Session - Collaboration | Co-Chairs: Natacha Omer & Fiona Maclean

2.30pm The Martin Tattersall Lecture | Nathalie Gaspar

3.05pm The Importance of Recognized Networks to Improve Sarcoma Care in Oceania | Joanna Connor

3.25pm SU2C-SARC032: A Randomized Trial of Neoadjuvant RT and Surgery with or Without Pembrolizumab for Soft Tissue Sarcoma | Angela Hong

3.45pm International Collaboration in Retroperitoneal Sarcoma - Progress, Plans and Opportunities | David Gyorki

4.05pm Afternoon Tea

4.20pm The Great Debate: "Should All Patients with Sarcoma be Enrolled on a Clinical Trial?”

• Con: Joanna Connor
• Pro: Marianne Phillips
• Moderator: David Gyorki

Session - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sarcoma | Co-Chairs: Vlad Andelkovic and Martin Lowe

4.50pm Radiology of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas | Wendy Brown

5.05pm Radiation Oncology Progress in Sarcoma | David Pryor

5.20pm Improving Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults with Sarcoma | Jeremy Lewin

5.35pm Panel Discussion - MDT Models of Care and Collaboration

5.45pm - 6.45pm ANZSA Annual General Meeting

7:00pm GALA DINNER - Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

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Friday 11 October

Australia & New Zealand Sarcoma Association Annual Scientific Meeting

Session - Translational Research | Co-Chairs: Maya Kansara and Madeleine Strach

2.00pm TBA | Nathalie Gaspar

2.25pm Empowering the Immune System: Harnessing Natural Killer Cells Against Sarcoma | Natacha Omer

2.40pm CD8+ T Cell Tolerance and Immune Evasion in Retroperitoneal Sarcoma | Ian Parish

2.55pm Advanced Diffusion MRI of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumours | Minh-Son To

3.10pm Precision Medicine in Soft Tissue Sarcomas | Paul Huang

3.30pm 5 x Rapid Fire Papers

4.15pm Closure | Natacha Omer