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SUMMARY:Society J F Wilkinson Lecture - "Recent evolution of immunotherapy in colorectal cancer"
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DESCRIPTION:5.30 pm\nCoffee and registration\n\n6.00 - 7.00 pm\nProfessor Mark Saunders, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust\n\nLearning points:\n\nThere are an increasing number of treatments that are able to manipulate a patient’s immune system for therapeutic gain  \n Immunotherapies, such as checkpoint inhibitors nearly failed in colorectal cancer until, perhaps by chance, it became evident that certain subsets benefit much more than others.\n  Single agent and combination immunotherapies are now used routinely in deficient mismatch repair colorectal cancer and to put in bluntly, are a “game-changer”\n  Immune manipulation is now being used in other, much more common subsets, to hopefully benefit a much wider group of patients\n  But, how long do we give them and can the world afford them? \nDr Saunders' main area of interest is running clinical trials evaluating novel agents with associated response/toxicity biomarkers and radiology (colorectal cancer, anal cancer, stomach chemoradiotherapy and pseudomyxoma). He is a member of a number of National Cancer Research Network (NCRN) CRC committees and works with SchAAR to prepare material for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).\n\nHe has written a series of protocols for clinical trials that have been funded, completed and published. He chairs or is a member of a number of trial management groups and data-monitoring committees. He is also an advisor to Beating Bowel Cancer, a charity dedicated to raising awareness of bowel cancer, improving the quality of life of those affected and, ultimately, reducing deaths from bowel cancer.\n\n \n\nAll attendees will receive a CPD certificate - RCP credit applied for\n\n
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LOCATION:MANDEC 3rd Floor, University Dental Hospital, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6FH
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