Tue 2 December 2014

• 8:00 - 9:00h at Lecture Hall Breakfast Symposium - Intuitive Surgical

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• 9:00 - 12:00h Morning session Chair(s): Werner Hohenberger (Erlangen, DE) & Timothy A. Rockall (Surrey, UK )

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• 9:00 - 12:00h Live Surgery Markus Büchler, Beat Müller
  

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• 12:15 - 13:15h at Lecture Hall Lunch Symposium - Covidien

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• 13:30 - 15:30h Afternoon session (part 1 of 2) Chair(s): Brendan Moran (Basingstoke, UK) & Béla Teleky (Vienna, AT)

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• 13:30 - 14:00h Advanced endoscopic resections for premalignant and malignant lesions Brian P. Saunders
  

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• 14:00 - 14:30h The best of both worlds: combined laparoendoscopic resections Robin Kennedy
  

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• 14:30 - 15:00h Transanal approaches to low rectal tumors: transanal, TEM, TAMIS, TEO Mark H. Whiteford
  

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• 15:00 - 15:30h Enhanced recovery pathways: moving to single-day colectomy? Timothy A. Rockall
  

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• 15:30 - 16:15h Coffee break

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• 16:15 - 18:15h Afternoon session (part 2 of 2) Chair(s): Robin Kennedy (London, UK) & Mark H. Whiteford (Portland, USA)

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• 16:15 - 16:45h Medical oncology for colorectal cancer: highlights Richard Herrmann
  

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• 16:45 - 17:15h Quality of life measures in islamic rectal carcinoma patients receiving counseling Ayhan M. Kuzu
  

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• 17:15 - 17:45h Indications and results of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraoperative chemotherapy Brendan Moran
  

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• 17:45 - 18:15h Proactive management of patients at high risk for peritoneal metastases Paul H. Sugarbaker
  

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