
2025 Agenda
Pre-Conference: Friday, April 4, 2025
16:30–18:00
Lung DST Meeting/Provincial Guidelines
18:00–22:00
Registration and Dinner
Day 1: Saturday, April 5, 2025
7:00–7:50
Registration and Breakfast
7:50–8:00
Welcome Remarks
8:00–9:30
Session 1: New Adjuvants Studies: Past, Present, and Future
8:00–8:20
ALINA and ADAURA
8:20–8:40
Debate: ADAURA Data
8:40–9:00
IMPOWER 010 and KN091: Adjuvant IO
9:00–9:20
Perioperative Data Update: Surgical Resectability and Surgeon Skills Variation
9:20–9:30
Q&A Panel
9:30–9:50
Morning Break
9:50–11:30
Session 2: Metastatic Activating Genomic Alteration (AGA) Patients
9:50–10:10
Exon 20 and Papillon
10:10–10:30
Common Mutations: Flaura2, Mariposa, Mariposa2
10:30–10:50
Debate: Flaura2 vs Osi vs Mariposa in First-Line Setting
10:50–11:10
Rare EGFR Mutations, Co-Mutations, and Smoker Profiles
11:10–11:20
Q&A Panel
11:20–11:40
Networking Break
11:40–12:30
Session 3: New Categories of Drugs
11:40–12:00
ADC – Antibody Drug Conjugates and Trop Inhibitors
12:00–12:20
Tarlatamab: Bispecifics in Small Cell Lung Cancer
12:20–12:30
Q&A Panel
12:30–13:30
Lunch Break – Wellness Talk (20-Minute Talk)
13:30–15:30
Session 4: Poster Presentations and Awards
13:30–14:20
5 Oral Presentations – 8 Minutes (2 Minutes for Q&A)
14:20–14:30
Abstract Awards
14:30–14:45
Afternoon Break
14:45–16:00
Session 5: Diagnostics & Staging
14:45–15:05
Plasma NGS: Current Utility and Future Directions
15:05–15:20
Respirology Diagnostic Tools: Bronchoscopy and Surgery
15:20–15:40
TNM 9th Edition: New Changes and Why
15:40–16:00
Q&A and Wrap-Up
16:00
Day 1 Closing Remarks
18:00
Reception and Dinner
Day 2: Sunday, April 6, 2025
7:30–8:00
Registration and Breakfast
8:00–8:10
Welcome and Overview of Day 2
8:10–9:30
Session 6: Case Studies and Practical Insight
8:10–8:30
Case Study 1: Clinical Application of AGA Therapies (Resident and Supervisor Case Presentations and Discussion)
8:30–8:50
Case Study 2: Diagnostic Challenges and Solutions (Resident and Supervisor Case Presentations and Discussion)
8:50–9:10
Case Study 3: Diagnostic Challenges and Solutions (Resident and Supervisor Case Presentations and Discussion)
9:10–9:30
Q&A Panel
9:30–9:50
Morning Break
9:50–11:30
Session 7: Emerging Topics in Lung Cancer Care
9:50–10:30
David Stewart – Hot Topics in Oncology (New Cancer Drugs, Funding, Equity, and Access)
10:30–11:10
Management of Inequities in Underserviced Populations
10:30–10:50
Inner City
10:50–11:10
Indigenous Populations
11:10–11:30
Q&A Panel
11:30–12:00
Closing Remarks and Future Directions
12:00
Conference Concludes
12:00
Lunch
Land Acknowledgement
McMaster University recognizes and acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories of the Mississauga and Haudenosaunee nations and within the lands protected by the Dish With One Spoon wampum agreement.