BGDO Annual Meeting 2025

SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2025
ZAVENTEM

Join us for an exclusive event, Professor Van Cutsem has invited renowned international speakers to give us insights on the management of gastric cancer, the treatment of oligometastatic colon cancer and the future of screening for CRC.

The meeting will be chaired by distinguished Belgian digestive oncologists that have been part of the BGDO board from the start in 2004 and will end their term at this meeting. So this year’s annual meeting will mark the end of an era and a whole new team will have to tackle many challenges for the future.

Registration Program

Program

8.30  Registration – welcome coffee

8.55  Welcome address  Alain Hendlisz, BGDO chairman

9:00   Colorectal cancer
  Chairs: Eric Van Cutsem – Jean-Luc Van Laethem

  • The future of screening for colorectal cancer
    Lucie de Jonge, Rotterdam
  • The strategy for patients with oligometastatic colorectal cancer
    Julien Taieb, Paris
  • Individualization and personalization of colorectal cancer treatment: Progress over the last 20 years & future prospects
    Fortunato Ciardiello, Naples, Italy

10:45    BGDO Award / DNET Award lecture progress
Filip Van Herpe, UZ Leuven  – Julien Pierrard, Cliniques Saint Luc Brussels

11:05   Brunch

12:00   Progress in the management of gastric cancer; the impact of molecular markers and of new agents
Chairs: Marc Peeters – Marc Van den Eynde

  • Adjuvant/neo-adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer: present & future
    Florian Lordick, Leipzig, Germany
  • Progress in the management of metastatic gastric cancer: present & future
    Radka Obermannova, Brno, Czech Republic

13:00    General Assembly

13:15    Closure –  farewell soup

Venue Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport ~ Da Vincilaan 4 ~ 1831 Diegem  ●  Free Parking

Registration fee Physicians: 100€ – Trainee: 50€ – BGDO member: free

Accreditation Gastroenterology

Language: English

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