Wed 3 December 2014

• 8:00 - 9:00h at Lecture Hall Breakfast Symposium - Karl Storz

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• 9:00 - 10:30h Morning session (part 1 of 2) Chair(s): Neil Mortensen (Oxford, UK) & Cornelis J. H. van de Velde (Leiden, NL)

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• 9:00 - 9:30h Metastatic colorectal cancer – does palliative surgery harm or help Iain Anderson
  

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• 9:30 - 10:00h Surgical resection of recurrent colonic cancer Peter Sagar
  

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• 10:00 - 10:30h Eurecca: auditing colorectal cancer care in Europe Philip Quirke
  

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• 11:30 - 12:30h Morning session (part 2 of 2) Chair(s): Lars Påhlman (Uppsala, SE) & Ziv Yehiel (Tel Aviv, IL)

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• 11:30 - 12:00h Benefits and limits of stenting for obstructing colonic cancer Roel Hompes
  

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• 12:00 - 12:30h Update on image guided surgery for colorectal cancer Cornelis J.H. van de Velde
  

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• 12:45 - 13:45h at Lecture Hall Lunch Symposium - Ethicon

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• 14:00 - 15:00h Afternoon session (part 1 of 2) Chair(s): André D'Hoore (Leuven, BE) & Danilo Miskovic (Leeds, UK)

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• 14:00 - 14:30h Clinical analytic systems to improve outcomes and efficiency in colorectal surgery Conor Delaney
  

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• 14:30 - 15:00h Using simulation to improve OR performance Teodor Grantcharov
  

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• 15:45 - 17:45h Afternoon session (part 2 of 2) Chair(s): Conor P. Delaney (Cleveland, USA) & Peter Sagar (Leeds, UK)

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• 15:45 - 16:15h Raising up a nation to laparoscopic surgery as a standard of care: the UK experience Danilo Miskovic
  

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• 16:15 - 16:45h Right hemicolectomy by 3D laparoscopy Jianping Gong
  

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• 16:45 - 17:15h Robotic total mesorectal excision: clinical experience and scientific evidence Herand Abcarian
  

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• 17:15 - 17:45h Resection margin in low rectal cancer after radiotherapy – How much is enough? Lars Påhlman
  

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• 20:00 - 23:00h at Hofbräuhaus (Munich) Festive Evening

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