Wed. 28 Sept
Session 1 How registries can best contribute to improving cancer services
Chair: Dr Kevin Snee, Chair, Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cancer Network
09.45: How should we monitor cancer services – an international perspective
Dr Renee Otter, North Netherlands Cancer Registry
10.05: Information requirements for commissioning and
evaluating cancer services
Professor Mark Baker, Medical Director, Yorkshire Cancer Network
10.30: The role of registries now and in the future
Dr Roger Black, Head of Epidemiology & Statistics Group, Scottish Cancer Registry
10.50: Panel Discussion
Session 2 Cancer prevention
Chair: Professor David Forman, Chair, UKACR
11.40: Prevention of breast cancer
Professor Anthony Howell, Professor of Medical Oncology, Christie Hospital NHS Trust
12.00: Prevention and early diagnosis in those with a family history of cancer
Professor Gareth Evans, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Mary's Hospital
12.20: Update on population cancer screening programmes in the UK
Mrs Julietta Patnick CBE, Director, NHS Cancer Screening Programmes
Session 3 Cancer services research and audit
Chair: Dr Liz White, Medical Director, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust
13.40: Keynote address: National clinical audit in lung cancer: a paradigm shift in data quality
Professor Mick Peake, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester
14.00: The role of a cancer registry in promoting change in cancer services
Dr Anna Gavin, Director, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
14:15: A population based study on patterns of care and survival for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the Republic of Ireland: how do we compare with the USA?
Dr Deirdre Cronin, Research & Data Analysis, National Cancer Registry of Ireland
14.30: 5 minute gap to allow for deviation from the schedule
14.35: Results from year 1 of the Breast Cancer Clinical Outcome Measures (BCCOM) project
Dr Catherine Lagord, Breast Cancer Audit Project Manager, West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
14.50: Improving outcomes in breast cancer: audit of care in Central South Coast Cancer Network
Dr Richard Hancock, Head of Audit, South West Cancer Intelligence Service
15.05: Radiotherapy waiting times in breast cancer patients
Dr Elizabeth Davies, Senior Lecturer in Cancer Registration, Thames Cancer Registry
Session 4 Cancer registration and informatics
Chair: Dr Iain Buchan, Director & Senior Lecturer in Public Health Informatics, North West Institute for Bio-Health Informatics & Evidence for Population Health Unit, University of Manchester
15.50: Keynote address: modernising and monitoring: process, measures and cancer registries peer review
Mr Chris Carrigan, National Cancer Registry Co-ordinator, National Cancer Action Team
16.05: Keynote address: Update on pathology
Prof Phil Quirke, Professor of Pathology, University of Leeds
16.25: The LUCADA dataset – an assessment of data quality
Mrs Carol Lister, R Q & D Manager, Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service
16.40: 5 minute gap to allow for
deviation from the schedule
16.45: Using cancer waiting times (CWT) data for cancer registration - lessons from practice
Mrs Jinan Ridha, Cancer Information Analyst, Oxford Cancer
Intelligence Unit
17.00: A novel informatics tool to analyse, display and monitor changes in patient journeys through cancer care
Dr Jan Fizzell, Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Eastern Cancer Registration & Intelligence Centre
17.15: Geographical inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in the UK and Ireland
Dr Mike Quinn, Director, National Cancer Intelligence Centre
Thurs. 29 Sept
AGM
Chair: Mr Chris Carrigan, National Cancer Registry Co-ordinator, National Cancer Action Team
09.15: UKACR statistics and information manual
Dr Paul Silcocks, Medical Advisor, Trent Cancer Registry
09.30: Modelling access to oncology services in North East England
Dr Andy Jones, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
09.45: Simulation modelling to validate the flow method for completeness of case ascertainment by cancer registries
Mr David Robinson, Statistician,Thames Cancer Registry & Dr Paul Silcocks, Medical Advisor, Trent Cancer Registry
Session 5: Public Health
Chair: Professor John Ashton CBE, Regional Director of Public Health/Regional Medical Officer, NHS Executive North West
10.30: Keynote address: Progress in cancer control in Europe
Professor Peter Boyle, Director, IARC
10.50: The impact of mammographic screening and hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer incidence in England and Wales
Professor Henrik Moller, Director, Thames Cancer Registry and Cancer Screening Evaluation Unit (ICR)
11.05: Trends in the incidence of and survival from cutaneous malignant melanoma by stage in the Yorkshire region of England,
1993-2002
Dr Amy Downing, University of Leeds
11.20: Is cancer control improving in the elderly?
Dr Tony Moran, Director, North Western Cancer Registry
11.35: 5 minute gap to allow for deviation from the schedule
11.40: Trends in prostate cancer and its management in the South West Region, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Ms Christine Harling, Head of Information, South West Cancer Intelligence Service
11.55: Comparison of survival analyses of breast and colorectal cancer using quintiles of deprivation derived at ward level and SOA-level in the Trent Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area
Catherine Thomson, Information & Statistics Manager, Trent Cancer Registry
12.10: 5 minute gap to allow for deviation from the schedule
12.15: A changing association between deprivation and colorectal cancer incidence
Session 6: Epidemiology
Chair: Dr Tony Moran, Director, North Western Cancer Registry
13.30: Keynote address: Nutrition and cancer risk
Professor Tim Key, Deputy Director, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford
13.50: Dietary intake of folate and related B-vitamins, alcohol and tobacco use and risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma: Results from the FINBAR All-Ireland case-control study
Linda Sharp, National Cancer Registry of Ireland
14.05: Cancer incidence in ethnic minority groups in south east England
Ms Ruth Jack, Information Analyst, Thames Cancer Registry
14.20: The risk of breast cancer in women who test negative for the family BRCA mutation
Robert Iddenden, Statistician, North Western Cancer Registry
14.35: 5 minute gap to allow for deviation from the schedule
14.40: Does cancer survival depend on season of diagnosis
and sunlight exposure?
Dr Hyun Sook Lim, Thames Cancer Registry
14.55: Radiotherapy for breast cancer and subsequent cardiovascular mortality
Mr Rahul Roychoudhuri, Thames Cancer Registry
15.10: Update on 2006 conference
15.20: Presentation of awards: Mike Quinn and Chris
Carrigan