3:00 – 9:00 PM

Registration Desk Open

6:00 – 9:00 PM

Conference Welcome Reception (Diplomat Landings)

6:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Registration Desk Opens

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast and Exhibits

8:15 – 8:25 AM

Conference Welcome
William T. McGivney, PhD
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

8:30 – 10:00 AM

Roundtable: e-Health – Educating, Enlightening, or Exasperating the American Patient with Cancer?

Moderator: Sam Donaldson, ABC News veteran and anchor
Panel Members: Al B. Benson III, MD, NCCN Chairman of the Board, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; Steve Case, Revolution Health; Elizabeth Edwards, Patient Advocate; Nan Forte, WebMD; James Mault, MD, Microsoft; Penelope Slade Royall, PT, MSW, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary, Patient Advocate

10:00 – 10:20 AM

Break and Exhibits

10:20 – 10:55 AM

Trends in the Use of Predictive Medicine
Peter Ravdin, MD, PhD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

11:00 – 11:40 AM

Update: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines
David S. Ettinger, MD
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Mark G. Kris, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM

Lunch and Exhibits

12:40 – 1:20 PM

NCCN Task Force Report: Oral Chemotherapy
Ronald S. Walters, MD, MBA, MHA, MS
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

1:25 – 2:00 PM

Innovative Mechanisms of Action in Combination Therapy
for the Treatment of Lung Cancer
Wallace Akerley, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah

2:05 – 2:45 PM

Update: Prostate Cancer Guidelines
Michael Kuettel, MD, PhD, MBA
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

James L. Mohler, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

2:50 – 3:30 PM

NCCN Task Force Report: mTOR Inhibition in Solid Tumors
Robert A. Figlin, MD
City of Hope

3:30 – 5:30 PM

Reception (Exhibit Hall)

6:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Registration Desk Opens

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast and Exhibits

8:15 - 9:35 AM

Roundtable: Clinical & Policy Decisions – Comparative
Effectiveness, Cost, and Cost-Effectiveness
Moderator: Clifford Goodman, PhD: The Lewin Group
Panel Members: James D. Cross, MD, Aetna; Nancy Davenport-Ennis, National Patient Advocate Foundation; David S. Ettinger, MD, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; Alissa Fox, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; Alice Gosfield, Esq., Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, P.C.; Kavita Patel, MD, MSHS, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Office of Senator Edward Kennedy; Leonard Saltz, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Jean Slutsky, PA, MSPH, Center for Outcomes and Evidence Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Heidi L. Wagner, Esq., Genentech, Inc.

9:35 – 9:55 AM

Break and Exhibits

9:55 – 10:35 AM

Update: Multiple Myeloma Guidelines
Kenneth C. Anderson, MD
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center

William Bensinger, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

10:40 – 11:15 AM

New Advances in Small Cell Lung Cancer
Gregory P. Kalemkerian, MD
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM

Update: Colon and Rectal Cancers Guidelines
Michael A. Choti, MD, MBA
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Paul F. Engstrom, MD
Fox Chase Cancer Center

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Lunch and Exhibits

1:15 – 1:55 PM

Update: Kidney Cancer Guidelines
Timothy M. Kuzel, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of
Northwestern University

2:00 – 2:35 PM

Issues in Sequencing Drugs for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Roberto Pili, MD
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

2:40 – 3:15 PM

Management of Toxicity due to Kinase Inhibitors
Eric Jonasch, MD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

3:20 – 4:00 PM

Update: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Guidelines
Susan O’Brien, MD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Jerald P. Radich, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

6:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Registration Desk Opens

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

8:15 - 8:55 AM

Update: Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Guidelines
Leo I. Gordon, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of
Northwestern University

Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

9:00 - 9:40 AM

Update: Mycosis Fungoides/Sézary Syndrome Guidelines
Steven M. Horwitz, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

9:40 – 9:55 AM

Break

9:55 – 10:35 AM

Update: Breast Cancer Guidelines
Robert W. Carlson, MD
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center

Stephen B. Edge, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

10:40 – 11:15 AM

Evaluation and Management of Cardiac Toxicity in the Treatment of Breast Cancer
William J. Gradishar, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of
Northwestern University

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM

NCCN Task Force Report: Breast Cancer in the Older Woman
Robert W. Carlson, MD
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 – 1:55 PM

Update: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Guidelines
Al B. Benson III, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of
Northwestern University

Elin R. Sigurdson, MD, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center

2:00 – 2:40 PM

NCCN Task Force Report: Prevention and Management of Mucositis in Cancer Care
Mark A. Schattner, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Sunday Brunch with the Experts: Issues in the Use of Growth Factors*
Charles L. Bennett, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of
Northwestern University

Jeffrey Crawford, MD
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

Gary H. Lyman, MD, PhD
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Sunday Brunch with the Experts: Controversies in the Use of Imaging in the Management of Patients with Cancer*
David S. Ettinger, MD
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Mohammad Jahanzeb, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/University of
Tennessee Cancer Institute

Harmeet Kaur, MD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lawrence H. Schwartz, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

** concurrent sessions