The role of cancer registries in surveillance and cancer care (in collaboration with The Netherlands Cancer Registry)
Wednesday 18 October 2006
09.00 Executive Meeting of the UKIACR
13.00 Buffet Lunch
14.00 Opening
14.30 Session 1: Major determinants of incidence and outcome
Keynote speaker: Anton Kunst (Department of Public Health Erasmus MCRotterdam, NL) (elderly, co-morbidity, ethnicity, socio-economic status, urban vs. rural)
16.00 Coffee and tea break
16.30 Session 2: Environmental cancer epidemiology
Keynote speaker: Lex Burdorf (Department of Public Health Erasmus MC Rotterdam, NL)(environmental exposures, clustering)
18.30 End
19.30 Dinner at Novotel
Thursday 19 October 2006
08.30 Session 3: Cancer care provision in relation to
guidelines and standards
Keynote speaker: David Forman (Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry, UK)
10.30 Coffee and tea break
11.00 Session 4: Long-term follow-up of cancer patients
Keynote speaker: Floor van Leeuwen (Netherlands Cancer
Institute-Antoni vanLeeuwenhoek Hospital, NL)(2nd tumours, recurrences, quality of life, long-term complications)
13.00 Lunch Buffet
14.00 Session 5: Quality assurance of cancer registry data
Keynote speaker: Otto Visser (CCC-Amsterdam, NL)(training programme of clerks, completeness checks)
16.00 Coffee and tea break
16.30 Session 6: Evaluation of colorectal screening
Keynote speaker: Wendy Atkin (St Mark’s Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK)(resources, capacity, decisions making, migration, cancer to proximal sites)
18.30 End
Social event 19.30 – 23.30 Exhibition and dinner at the ‘VOC Maritime Museum’
Friday 20 October 2006
08.30 Session 7: National Cancer Control Activities and the role of the Cancer Registries
Keynote speakers: Mike Richards (National Cancer Director, UK )and Renée Otter (Netherlands Cancer Registry, NL)(centralisation and devolution, national cancer plans implementations, monitoring, prevalence and capacity)
10.30 Coffee and tea break
11.00 Session 8: Modernisation of health informatics
Keynote speaker: Chris Carrigan (National Cancer Registry, England)(linkage, quality assurance, security, confidentiality)
13.00 Closing remarks
13.30 Buffet Lunch
14.30 End
