Date og time: June 25 2019 kl. 10.15-20.00
Location: Syddansk Universitetshospital, Beriderbakken 4, 7100 Vejle, Onkologisk konferencerum 1, E210.
Organiser:
Onkologisk Afdeling, Syddansk Universitetshospital, Vejle. 
Participant fee: Free of charge
Registration: Everyone with an interest in the subject are welcome. E-mail registration to Karin Larsen, Karin.Larsen1@rsyd.dk.
Separate registration is required to the seminar - Rectal cancer - organ preservation: the role of MRI.
Contact: Lars Henrik Jensen, Lars.henrik.jensen@rsyd.dk.
Registration deadline:
June 18 2019

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Watchful Waiting 3 - Project meeting
Randomized trial of standard dose versus high dose of radiotherapy in rectal preservation with chemo-radiotherapy to patients with low and mid rectal cancer. Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center DCCC has sponsored the development and the initiation of this protocol. Danish Colorectal Cancer Group DCCG has given preliminary support and is willing to evaluate the final protocol in order to endorse it.

Programme
10.15-13.00: Watchful Waiting 3 Protocol. Detailed discussion of the protocol procedures.
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-17.00: SeminarRectal cancer – organ preservation: the role of MRI (required separate registration.)

  • Lennart Blomqvist, Professor, PhD, MD, Department of Radiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
  • Geerard Lucien Beets, Professor, PhD, MD, Department of Surgery, the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Regina Beets-Tan, Professor, PhD, MD, Department of Radiology, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Ane Appelt, Physicist, PhD, YCR Academic Fellow in Radiotherapy Research, Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds & Leeds Cancer Centre, St. James’s University Hospital, UK

17.00-18.30: Discussion of input from international speakers.
How to proceed? Distribution of the funds for initiation of the protocol in the departments.

18.30: Network and dinner