Program for the 28th annually meeting

Wednesday April 17, 2002

10.00–11.45

SSG Board meeting, Room: Atlas

11.00–12.00

Registration

12.00–13.50

Separate surgery working group meeting
Room: Atlas
Chairman: G. Follerås, Oslo

13.00–14.00

Lunch

14.00

Introduction, Room: Auditoriet
T.A. Alvegård, Lund, H. Bauer, Stockholm

14.15–16.00

Gastrointestinal Stroma Cells Tumor (GIST)
Chairmen: K. Sundby Hall, Oslo, J. Åhlén, Stockholm

14.15

1. Gastrointestinal Stromal (Pacemaker Cell) Tumor – An update on morphology, prognosis, KIT mutations, cytogenetics, and its relationship to NF1
J. Meis-Kindblom, L.G. Kindblom, Gothenburg

14.45

2. Surgical aspects of gastrointestinal stromal tumors
B. Nilsson, P. Bümming, L.G. Kindblom, S. Jansson, H. Ahlman, Gothenburg

15.15

3. Systemic treatment of GIST from overtly metastatic disease to adjuvant therapy
H. Joensuu, Helsinki

16.00

Coffee

16.30–17.30

Positron Emissions Tomography (PET)
Chairmen: I. Taksdal, Oslo, K. Jonsson, Lund

16.30

4. Coincidence PET
M. Winderen, I.Taksdal, Oslo

16.50

5. Therapy monitoring in high grade bone sarcomas with FDG-PET during neoadjuvant treatment – preliminary results and study suggestion
E. Brun, J. Engellau, T. Ohlsson, A. Sandell, T. Wiebe, H. Domanski, Lund

17.10

6. Dedicated PET
P. Lindholm for the Sarcoma Groups of University Hospitals in Turku and Helsinki and Turku PET Centre, Finland

17.30–18.00

Free paper

17.30

7. Fibromatosis
H. Einarsdottir, Stockholm

19.30

Dinner at Scandic Hotel Slussen

Thursday April 18, 2002

07.30–08.30

Breakfast

08.30–13.00

Bone Sarcomas
Chairmen: H. Bauer, Stockholm, S. Smeland, Oslo

08.30

8. Copy number changes, fusions, mutations and aberrant expression of genes in osteosarcoma
S. Knuutila, Helsinki

09.00

9. Radiological diagnosis of Ewing´s family tumors
K. Jonsson, Lund, I. Taksdal, M. Winderen, Oslo

09.30

10. Surgical aspects of pelvic tumors
W. Winkelmann, Münster

10.00

Discussion

10.15

11. Autobiological reconstructions with preserved joint function after surgical treatment of bone sarcoma in children
Ö. Berlin, P. Bergh, B. Gunterberg, J. Lundberg, H. Mark, Gothenburg

10.45

12. ISG/SSG´s prognostic factors study in osteosarcoma
S. Smeland, Oslo, R. Perfekt, Lund, S. Ferrari, Bologna et al.

11.15

Coffee

11.45

13. Clinical results of ISG/SSG I, II and SSG XIV
S. Smeland, Oslo for the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group

12.10

14. Preliminary results of ISG/SSG III and IV (Ewing´s family tumors)
T. Wiebe, T.A. Alvegård, Lund, S. Smeland, Oslo

12.30

15. Very high risk Ewing tumors – overview.
O. Monge, Bergen

12.40

16. Quality of life investigation and long-term morbidity in bone sarcoma patients – present status
L.H. Aksnes, Oslo, H. Bauer, Stockholm, R. Huuhtanen, Helsinki, K. Sundby Hall, Oslo

13.00–14.00

Lunch

14.00–17.00

Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS)
Chairmen: A. Rydholm, Lund, P. Lindholm, Turku

14.00

17. Radiation therapy for soft tissue sarcoma – “State of the art”
B. O´Sullivan, D. Jaffray, Toronto

14.30

Discussion

14.45

18. High-throughput tumor profiling using DNA microarrays
O. Myklebost, Oslo

15.15

19. Preliminary results of SSG XIII (adjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk patients)
T.A. Alvegård, Lund

15.30

Coffee

16.00

20. Thermochemotherapy in high risk sarcoma patients
O. Monge, B.C. Schem, T. Frøystein, C. Trovik, H.E. Oulie, J. Eide, A. Horn, O. Mella, Bergen

16.15

21. Proposal: Adjuvant chemotherapy for Isolated Limb Perfusion (ILP) treated patients?
K. Sundby Hall, Oslo, T.A. Alvegård, Lund

16.30

22. Proposal: Treatment of adult patients with rhabdomyosarcoma
K. Sundby Hall, S. Smeland, J.P. Poulsen, Oslo

16.45

23. Myositis ossificans: radiological findings in 7 cases
I. Taksdal, B. Bjerkehagen, Oslo

17.00–17.45

Reception, room: Panorama

18.45

Walking from the Scandic Hotel Slussen to the Stockholm Opera

19.30

Start of the Opera Ballet performance

22.00

Buffet at the Opera restaurant

Friday April 19, 2002

08.30–09.30

Breakfast

09.30

24. Preliminary data from the SSG skeletal metastasis data base
J. Keller, Aarhus, R. Wedin, Stockholm

10.00–11.30

Presentation of final version: SSG recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of intraabdominal and retroperitoneal sarcomas
B. Bjerkehagen, I. Taksdal, S. Stoldt, Ø. Bruland, K. Sundby Hall, Oslo J. Åhlén, Stockholm, P. Helgerud, G. Kristensen, Oslo, C. Blomqvist, Uppsala, A. Bergenfelz, Lund, K. Engström, Gothenburg, J.O. Fernberg, Stockholm, R. Huuhtanen, Helsinki, O. Monge, Bergen, L. Blomqvist, Stockholm, L. Lundgren-Eriksson, Umeå, B. Nordström, Gothenburg, M. Eriksson, T.A. Alvegård, Lund
Chairmen: T.A. Alvegård, Lund, H. Bauer, Stockholm

11.30–12.00

Coffee

12.00–13.00

SSG matters
T.A. Alvegård, Lund, H. Bauer, Stockholm, K. Sundby Hall, Oslo
13.00–14.00 Lunch