London Friday 27th April 2012

Progress in the Search for Improved Diagnosis, Management and Treatment

Chairman: Dr F Anthony Greco

Topics

• Management and treatment approaches for CUP – a global perspective
• Implementing NICE guidance in a general hospital
• Targeting treatment to patients with specific mutational profiles
• Latest international research findings
• The Search for Improved Diagnosis using Molecular Profiling
• Exploiting underlying biological factors of highly metastatic cancers to develop more rational treatments
• Improving the Patient experience

After the success of the first international conference held in 2009, there is to be a new conference this year in 2012. CUP has remained for a long time, a hidden and little understood sub group of cancers with a generally poor prognosis. The first CUP conference helped to flesh out some of the commonalities of this sub group together with bringing news on new trials and approaches based on such techniques as molecular profiling. Since the last conference the NICE guidelines for CUP have been published in the UK.

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The current site makes use of some static pages but most of the content for the near future is likely to be in the form of articles. Hopefully, anyone using the site will not get confused over the two different approaches, pages and categorised articles, being used at the same time.

The original site used to look like this: -

The WordPress theme comes courtesy of Michael Hutagalung’s Arthemia Free but with a few tweaks to make it look a little more like his Arthermia Premium version.
His theme is designed to give a magazine style to the WordPress platform.

Maybe we’ll have a try at making it look a bit more original at some point but for now providing more content is the priority.