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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.

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