PG1 Re-defining the role of chest physicians in lung cancer: new opportunities in diagnostics and therapy

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: Matthew Evison (Manchester, GB), Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warszawa, PL), Klimentini Bostantzoglou (Athens, GR), Otto Chris Burghuber (Vienna, AT)

The chest physician as the lung cancer patient’s guide: defining the role of the modern day chest physician throughout the lung cancer continuum Torsten Gerriet Blum (Berlin, Germany)
Non-invasive diagnostics: modern measures for screening and diagnosis David Baldwin (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Invasive diagnostics and endoscopic interventions: the chest physician’s arsenal Ales Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia)
From staging to therapy: implications of the new staging system with a focus on multi-modal treatment options Jan van Meerbeeck (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium)
Fitness for radical treatment modalities: efficient functional assessment, improving fitness and fitness-adapted therapy concepts including the elderly Matthew Evison (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Pathology meets clinic: translating lung cancer pathology into personalised care Françoise Galateau-Salle (Caen, France)
Systemic therapies: optimising the sequences of chemotherapies, targeted therapies and immunotherapies Thierry Berghmans (Bruxelles, Belgium)