Masterclass in Clinical Oncology - Summer edition

09 May 2025 - 24 Jun 2025

Masterclass in Clinical Oncology - Block 1 (PRE-RECORDED LECTURES)

ATTENDANCE TO THE MASTERCLASS IS BY APPLICATION ONLY.
Only selected participants have access to the online materials.

INTRODUCTION
This programme has been designed for medical and clinical oncologists, who wish to improve their skills. The programme will expose participants to a full spectrum of issues in clinical and medical oncology from basic science to advanced knowledge of systemic therapy as well as in the multidisciplinary treatment approach.
The programme focuses on frequent cancers such as breast, lung, gastro-intestinal and gynaecological cancers. Furthermore, practical training will be offered in the frame of clinical case presentations, prepared and presented by the participants and faculty for an interactive discussion.
 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This is BLOCK 1 of 2025 Masterclasses
Pre-recorded sessions will be made available via this website. You will be able to see all the sessions in your own time.
The pre-recorded sessions must be viewed before block 2. 
When you finish watching a set of sessions on a specific tumour, please think of 3 questions related to the sessions. Some of your questions will be selected and answered during the in person event (block 2) in the Q&A sessions. 
  
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers:
 
Dolores Knupfer - dknupfer@eso.net
Elena Fiore - efiore@eso.net

CLINICAL SESSION - BREAST CANCER

09/05/2025

Molecular diagnostic pathology
Expert: Elena Guerini Rocca

Current controversies and challenges in breast cancer surgery
Presenter: Riccardo A. Audisio, IT

Reconstructive surgery
Expert: Marzia Salgarello, IT

Current controversies and challenges in radiotherapy
Expert: Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa, IT

Systemic treatment of luminal early breast cancer - endocrine based therapy
Expert: Fatima Cardoso, PT

Systemic treatment of luminal advanced breast cancer - endocrine based therapy
Expert: Fatima Cardoso, PT

Systemic treatment of luminal advanced breast cancer – chemotherapy-based therapy
Expert: Fatima Cardoso, PT

Systemic treatment of early and advanced triple negative disease
Expert: Giuseppe Curigliano, IT

Systemic treatment of HER2+ early and advanced disease
Expert: Alexandru Eniu, CH

Quality of life
Expert: Antonio Di Meglio, FR

CLINICAL SESSION- LUNG CANCER

09/05/2025

Molecular diagnostic pathology of NSCLC
Expert: Umberto Malapelle, IT

Systemic therapy for NSCLC without oncogenic driver mutations
Expert: Christian Rolfo, US

Systemic therapy for NSCLC with oncogenic driver mutations
Expert: Christian Rolfo, US

Treatment in second and further lines for Stage IV NSCLC without oncogenic driver alterations
Expert: Ernest Nadal

Radiotherapy for NSCLC
Expert: Sara Ramella, IT

Surgery for early and locally advanced NSCLC
Expert: Luca Bertolaccini, IT

Multimodality treatment of stage III NSCLC
Expert: Jarushka Naidoo, US

Treatment of SCLC
Expert: Antonio Calles, ES

Treatment of pleural mesothelioma
Expert: Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro, CH

CLINICAL SESSION - GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER

09/05/2025

Treatment of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Expert: Tania Fleitas Kanonnikoff

Systemic treatment of advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma
Presenter: Alexander Siebenhüner, CH

Therapeutic sequences in systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma
Expert: Lorenza Rimassa

Systemic treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer
Expert: Thomas Seufferlein, DE

Systemic treatment in biliary cancer: immune-oncology and precision medicine
Expert: Angela Lamarca, ES

Treatment of localized colon cancer
Expert: Demetris Papamichael, CY

Surgical management of rectal cancer: TME, local excision or watch and wait?
Expert: Andre D'Hoore, BE

Evidence-based use of biomarkers in colorectal cancer
Expert: Andrea Sartore-bianchi

Optimizing 1st line treatment strategies for metastatic colorectal cancer
Expert: Eric Van Cutsem, BE

Optimizing treatment strategies for advanced pretreated colorectal cancer: 2nd line and beyond
Expert: Michel Ducreux

Hereditary colorectal cancer
Expert: Marco Vitellaro, IT

CLINICAL SESSION - GYNEACOLOGICAL CANCERS

09/05/2025

Systemic management of ovarian cancer and inhibitors of Parp
Expert: Nicoletta Colombo, IT

Management of early and advanced/metastatic cervical cancer
Expert: Cristiana Sessa, CH

Treatment of endometrial cancer: the breakthrough era of immunotherapy
Expert: Juan Francisco Grau Bejar, ES

The value of the multidisciplinary approach: Rare ovarian cancer
Expert: Isabelle Ray-Coquard, FR

HPV vaccination - prevention and screening
Expert: Eleonora Petra Preti, IT

CLINICAL SESSION - GENITOURINARY CANCERS

09/05/2025

Local therapy for prostate cancer - surgery
Expert: Andrea Gallina, CH

Local therapy for prostate cancer (radiotherapy and other alternatives)
Expert: Fady B. Geara, LB

Treatment of metastatic castration sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC)
Expert: Giulia Baciarello, IT

Treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)
Expert: Ursula Vogl, CH

Adjuvant and advanced systemic therapy for renal cancer
Expert: Manuela Schmidinger, AT

Systemic treatment of bladder cancer
Expert: Patrizia Giannatempo

Testicular cancer
Expert: Joerg Beyer, CH

CLINICAL SESSION - HEAD AND NECK CANCERS

09/05/2025

When to operate?
Expert: Andreas Dietz, DE

When to irradiate?
Expert: Felipe A. Calvo Manuel, ES

When to provide systemic treatment or radio-chemotherapy
Expert: Amanda Psyrri, GR

CLINICAL SESSION - SARCOMAS AND RARE TUMOURS

09/05/2025

Overview on Sarcomas
Expert: Bruno Vincenzi, IT

Overview on rare tumours in Europe
Expert: Paolo Giovanni Casali, IT

Surgery of sarcoma
Expert: Alessandro Gronchi, IT

NOVEL APPROACHES IN ONCOLOGY

09/05/2025

Current status of epidemiology
Expert: Annalisa Trama, IT

Cancer prevention
Expert: Joachim Schuz, FR

Precision oncology
Expert: Olivier Michielin, CH

Novelties in radiotherapy
Expert: Philip Poortmans, BE

How to teach surgical oncology
Expert: Riccardo A. Audisio, IT

Car T cells in solid tumours
Expert: Francesca Del Bufalo, IT

Oligometastatic disease
Expert: Carmen Criscitiello, IT

Young Adults oncology
Expert: Andrea Ferrari, IT

Global fight against cancer
Expert: Franco Cavalli, CH

Common sense in value-driven cancer care
Expert: Ian Tannock, CA

Riccardo A. Audisio

Breast Surgeon, European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Giulia Baciarello

National Cancer Institute - IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

Luca Bertolaccini

Thoracic Surgeon, IEO - European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Joerg Beyer

University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Antonio Calles

Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain

Felipe A. Calvo Manuel

Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Fatima Cardoso

Medical Oncologist, ABC Global Alliance, Lisbon, Portugal

Paolo Giovanni Casali

National Cancer Institute - IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

Franco Cavalli

Foundation for the Institute for Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona, Switzerland

Nicoletta Colombo

European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Carmen Criscitiello

Oncologo Medico, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Curigliano

Medical Oncologist, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro

Freiburger Spital, HFR Kantonsspital Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland

Andre D'Hoore

UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Francesca Del Bufalo

IRCCS Peadiatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Antonio Di Meglio

Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France

Andreas Dietz

University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michel Ducreux

Alexandru Eniu

Genolier Cancer Center, Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland

Andrea Ferrari

National Cancer Institute - IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

Tania Fleitas Kanonnikoff

Andrea Gallina

EOC - Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Fady B. Geara

American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad El Solh, Beirut, Lebanon

Patrizia Giannatempo

Juan Francisco Grau Bejar

Vall d´Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Alessandro Gronchi

National Cancer Institute - IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

Elena Guerini Rocca

Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa

Professor of Radiation Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Angela Lamarca

Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Umberto Malapelle

Pathologist, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Olivier Michielin

Geneve University Hospital - HCUGE, Geneve, Switzerland

Ernest Nadal

Jarushka Naidoo

Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, Baltimore, ML, USA

Demetris Papamichael

Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

Philip Poortmans

GZA Ziekenhuizen Campus Sint-Augustinus and Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

Eleonora Petra Preti

IEO - European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Amanda Psyrri

Attikon University Hospital, Chaidari, Greece

Sara Ramella

Radiation oncologist, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy

Isabelle Ray-Coquard

Léon Bérard Center, Lyon, France

Lorenza Rimassa

Christian Rolfo

University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

Marzia Salgarello

Policlinico Gemelli, Rome, Italy

Andrea Sartore-bianchi

Manuela Schmidinger

Department of Urology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Joachim Schuz

AIRC - International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Cristiana Sessa

Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Thomas Seufferlein

Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Ian Tannock

Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Annalisa Trama

National Cancer Institute - IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

Eric Van Cutsem

University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Bruno Vincenzi

University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Marco Vitellaro

INT - National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Ursula Vogl

Cantonal Hospital of Southern Switzerland (EOC), Bellinzona, Switzerland