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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