Annual Congress Barcelona 2010

Saturday, 18.09.2010
Sunday, 19.09.2010
Monday, 20.09.2010
Tuesday, 21.09.2010
Wednesday, 22.09.2010

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: Suppl. 54, abstract number.

Material from 2010:

4910 Abstracts
646 Slide presentations
250 Webcasts
97 Handouts
2124 e-posters
250 Multimedia files

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Too close for comfort: common pathogenic mechanisms in lung cancer and fibrosis

Symposium
Chairs: E. Brambilla (Grenoble, France), G. Laurent (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: The prognosis for many interstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is as bad as many cancers, with survival after diagnosis being between 2?5 yrs, if left untreated. Patients with IPF have a greater incidence of lung cancers, probably due to shared risk factors such as smoking. Both diseases are aggressive proliferative disorders in which epithelial?mesenchymal interactions are key to disease pathogensis; these include novel ideas such as epithelial?mesenchymal transition (EMT). This symposium will explore these common pathogenetic mechanisms in detail and should appeal to cancer and ILD researchers, as well as translational physicians working in lung cancer and ILD clinics.

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Cell therapy: a novel approach for the treatment of lung cancer and fibrosis S. Janes (Harpenden, United Kingdom)