ESAP

China

Shanghai
17 November 2017

Detection of Lung Cancer at Early Stage Summit and Special Training Course for the Asia-Pacific

On 17th November 2017, Detection of Lung Cancer at Early Stage Summit and Special Training Course for Asia-Pacific Area, was held at Shanghai International Conference Center, Shanghai, China. A total of 12 speakers and more than 400 physicians and scientist participated in this training course.

The Summit and Course, which had been approved as an Educational Seminar of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (ESAP), contained tens of well-prepared talks. Speakers were all experts in the lung cancer area, including: Dr Chunxue Bai, Chairman of Shanghai Institution of Respiratory Diseases; Dr Kwun Fong, President of the APSR; Dr Fred R Hirsch, CEO of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC); Dr M Patricia Rivera, Chair of the ATS Thoracic Oncology Assembly; Dr Charles A Powell, Professor of Icahn School of Medicine; and Dr Rex Yung, Professor of Johns Hopkins University.

Prof. Chunxue Bai


Prof. Kwun Fong

The training course, which aimed to provide the updates in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, provides a good opportunity for clinicians to be updated on current guidelines in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, enhance their diagnostic skills in interpreting CT scanning, and gain practical experience in auto fluorescence Bronchoscopy or guided bronchoscopy. Talks included:

1. PD-L1 IHC assay as a predictive biomarker for immunotherapy: The Blueprint Project
2. History and Progress of Lung cancer
3. Lung Cancer in women
4. Evaluation of pulmonary nodules: clinical practice consensus guidelines for Asia-Pacific countries and regions
5. Lung cancer Biomarkers for early detection
6. Clinical application of auto fluorescence bronchoscopy and narrowband bronchoscopy
7. Diagnosis of pulmonary nodules with electromagnetic navigation
8. Guided bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodule, et al.

Dr Dawei Yang from Zhongshan Hospital also showed Advanced Technology of Shanghai Institution of Respiratory Diseases; AR + Demonstration: Automatic diagnostic imaging of pulmonary nodules and BaiDX 5A system.

Dr Dawei Yang from Zhongshan Hospital,
showing AR + Demonstration and BaiDX 5A system

Another important issue of the meeting is around 91 hospitals joined small nodule diagnosis and treatment program which was organized by China Alliance Against Lung Cancer, an organization focuses on "prevention, early diagnosis, comprehensive treatment and modern management of lung cancer", and Prof Bai is the chairman of the organization.

Around 91 hospitals joined HTH project which was organized by China Alliance Against Lung Cancer.

The initial announcement of the ESAP follows:

ESAP

China

Shanghai
17 November 2017

Detection of Lung Cancer at Early Stage Summit and Special training Course for Asia

A whole day training course will be held during the ISRD meeting on 17 November 2017 at the Shanghai International Conference Center
No. 2727 Binjiang Ave.
Pudong New District
Shanghai
China.

Organizers: Chinese Alliance Against Lung Cancer, Shanghai Respiratory Medicine Clinical Quality Control Center

Course leaders: Dr Hu Jie, and Dr Yang Dawei.

The purpose of this training course is to provide state-of-art technology of early lung cancer detection, including but not limited to

• advanced bronchoscopy biopsy,
• fluorescence bronchoscopy and narrowband bronchoscopy,
• bronchoscopy with electromagnetic navigation,
• integrated intelligent imaging
• and guideline for lung nodule follow up.

Experts in this area will include Prof Kwun Fong as the nominated APSR Executive Committee member, who will join this ESAP as an international faculty and speaker.

The normal registration fee is US$200, but a special half-price registration fee of US$100 for APSR members.

Reserve your place now at www.isrd.org/apsresaptraining/#

Programme

Faculty

Chunxue Bai Chairman of Chinese Alliance Against Lung Cancer Professor of Fudan University
Kwun Fong Professor, Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jie He President of Cancer Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Fred R Hirsch Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Pia Endowed Chair University of Colorado Cancer Center CEO, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
Charles A Powell Janice and Coleman Rabin Professor of Medicine, System Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Professor of Medicine, National Jewish Health
M Patricia Rivera Professor of Medicine University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (UNC) Chair of the ATS Thoracic Oncology Assembly Vice-chair of the ACCP Thoracic Oncology Network
Jiayuan Sun Director of Endoscopy Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Christoph Thümmler Edinburgh Napier University
Rex Yung Professor of Johns Hopkins University, USA

Contact

• Shanghai Saigao exibition service Lt Co
  199 Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai
  Tel: 86-13472720506
  Email: event@isrd.org; jingw@jymiot.com
  
  Secretary
  Tel: 86-13585868035
  Email: liumiao.lijing@163.com CC: cxbai@icloud.com