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2009 Annual Meeting

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Bone Metastasis Update and Goals

Track : Nursing Panels

Program Code: NURSP1

Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Time: 12:40 PM to 1:30 PM EST

Duration: 50 Minutes

Location: W 194

SPEAKER(S):

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Peter Hoskin, Professor, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Vassilios Vassiliou, Consultant, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre

Dimitrios Kardamakis, Assistant Professor, University of Patras Medical School

- Main research activities: Radiobiology (angiogenesis, low dose effects), Gliomas, Rectal Cancer, Bone Metastases - Ex-President of the Hellenic Society of Professional Radiation Oncologists and representative of Greece in the UEMS/ESTRO. - External advisor to the International Atomic Energy Agency on the projects: Installation of new radiotherapy machines in Albania and Cost comparison studies in radiotherapy. - Co-author in the book Handbook of Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization of human carcinomas. Molecular genetics: liver and pancreatic carcinomas, MA Hayat (ed), Elsevier Academic Press - Co-Editor in the book Bone metastases: A translational and clinical approach, Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht (in press) Papers: Matsouka P, Mylonas P, Papandoniou E, Dimitropoulou I, Floratou K, Alexandridis T, Kardamakis D. Abdominal radiation initiates apoptotic mechanism in rat femur bone marrow cells in vivo that is reversed by IGF-1 administration. J Radiat Res (Tokyo). 49(1):41-47, 2008 Kalofonos HP, Bamias A, Koutras A, Papakostas P, Basdanis G, Samantas E, Karina M, Misailidou D, Pisanidis N, Pentheroudakis G, Economopoulos T, Papadimitriou C, Skarlos DV, Pectasides D, Stavropoulos M, Bafaloukos D, Kardamakis D, Karanikiotis C, Vourli G, Fountzilas G; Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Study. A randomised phase III trial of adjuvant radio-chemotherapy comparing Irinotecan, 5FU and Leucovorin to 5FU and Leucovorin in patients with rectal cancer: a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Study. Eur J Cancer. 44(12):1693-1700, 2008 Vassiliou V, Kalogeropoulou C, Giannopoulou E, Leotsinidis M, Tsota I, Kardamakis D. A novel study investigating the therapeutic outcome of patients with lytic, mixed and sclerotic bone metastases treated with combined radiotherapy and ibandronate. Clin Exp Metastasis. 24(3):169-178, 2007 Zampakis P, Karnabatidis D, Kalogeropoulou C, Kardamakis DM, Katsanos K, Skouras T, Siablis D. External beam irradiation and restenosis following femoral stenting: long-term results of a prospective randomized study. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 30(3):362-369, 2007 Vassiliou V, Kalogeropoulou C, Christopoulos C, Solomou E, Leotsinides M, Kardamakis D. Combination ibandronate and radiotherapy for the treatment of bone metastases: clinical evaluation and radiologic assessment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 67(1):264-272, 2007

Yvette van der Linden, Radiation Oncologist, Radiotherapeutic Institute Friesland

William Hartsell, Radiation Oncologist, Good Samaritan Hospital Cancer Center

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