Cancer Currents for November 2009
Lectures / Seminars for Cancer Professionals
View recorded webcasts, or listen to recorded podcasts of Grand Rounds and Fellows lectures. Note that recorded webcasts remain available up to one year.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Inaugural Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center Distinguished Lecture in Cancer Science / Grand Rounds: "Molecular Markers for Personalized Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy"
Auditorium G
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
David Sidransky, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Oncology, Pathology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Urology
Director of Head and Neck Cancer Research
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins University
More information.
Friday, November 6, 2009
VCC Clinical and Translational Research Symposium: "Environmental Cancers: Risk Factors, Mechanisms, and Therapies"
Grand Maple Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
8:50 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This symposium, a collaboration between Vermont Cancer Center (VCC) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is a free day-long research symposium featuring presentations from VCC, the Cancer Center, and other cancer research institutions, with particular emphasis on lung cancer / mesothelioma and skin cancers / melanoma. Note that there is a call for symposium poster submissions, open to any area of cancer-related research, not only those relating to the symposium topics. Registration and poster abstract deadline extended to October 30. Register, view agenda, and obtain poster submission details.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Shared Resources Workshop: "Pathology"
Auditorium E
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Director/Speaker: C. Harker Rhodes, MD, PhD
Director, Research Pathology Services
Associate Professor of Pathology
Thursday, November 12, 2009
2009 Marilyn K. Bedell Distinguished Lecture in Oncology Nursing / Grand Rounds: "Unrelieved Symptoms During Cancer Treatment: Is Clinical Inertia a Factor?"
Auditorium E
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Kathi Mooney, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN
Professor, University of Utah College of Nursing
Past President, Oncology Nursing Society
More information.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Symposium: "Tumors of the Anterior and Posterior Skull Base: Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Management"
The Sheraton Harborside, Portsmouth, NH
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
This symposium will provide a straightforward, state-of-the-art approach to the diagnosis and management of lesions of the skull base in patients through the combined experiences of the otolaryngology and neurosurgical physicians at DHMC.
More information and registration.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Fellows Lecture: "Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia"
Auditorium E
12:00 -1:00 p.m.
Alexander Fuld, MD, MS
Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
