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Scientific program

The Sydney Cancer Conference 2010 (SCC2010) will be a comprehensive gathering of professionals in the cancer field, encompassing basic, clinical, public health and psychosocial research. The overall theme for this conference is “Profiling risk, personalising treatment, and predicting outcomes”.

The scientific program features plenary and concurrent sessions on a range of topics, including biomarkers, cancer targets and treatments, screening, breast and ovarian cancer, quality of life and clinical trials.

These sessions will be organised within three broad concurrent session themes:

  • Basic biomedical cancer research
  • Clinical and Public Health cancer research
  • Psychosocial aspects of cancer care

The scientific program for SCC2010 will run from 9.00 am to approximately 5.00 pm on Thursday 15 July and Friday 16 July 2010. A public lecture presented by Professor Simon Chapman and the conference mixer will be held on Wednesday (evening) 14 July 2010.

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Scientific poster sessions

The SCC2010 Scientific Posters will be displayed during morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea sessions for discussion with judges and delegates on the following days:

  • Thursday 15 July: basic biomedical cancer research abstracts
  • Friday 16 July: public health, clinical and psychosocial cancer research abstracts

The SCC2010 Scientific Poster Sessions are supported by the Cancer Institute NSW.

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Social program

Public lecture and mixer

Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium, The University of Sydney
Registration: To register for the public lecture please email Merilyn Heuschkel at before Thursday 1 July 2010. Registration is strictly limited to 450 people.

CAN WE MAKE LUNG CANCER HISTORY? THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SMOKING EPIDEMIC
Medical historians recorded cases of lung cancer in the first decades of the twentieth century. Within twenty years these rapidly grew into an epidemic, with lung cancer today, just 80 years later, being the leading cause of cancer death. Australia has seen a constant decline in male lung cancer since the 1980s, with today's rates last occurring in the early 1960s. Female lung cancer rates will never reach those experienced by men, thanks to tobacco control.

This lecture will consider the range of policies, programs and cultural changes which have caused this dramatic and continuing fall and review evidence about projections on whether smoking might one day become "history".

PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR SIMON CHAPMAN
Simon Chapman is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney and a staff-elected Fellow of Senate. He has published 390 articles in peer reviewed journals and 16 books and major reports. In 1997, he won the WHO's World No Tobacco Day Medal and in 2003, he was awarded the American Cancer Society's Luther Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control. In 2008, he won the NSW Premier's Cancer Researcher of the Year medal; the Public Health Association of Australia's Sidney Sax medal; and was a NSW finalist in Australian of the Year. His current research involves examining how health policy and medical issues are covered in the news media, the implications for tobacco control, and the characteristics of public health research which impact on public health policy.

DOWNLOAD THE PUBLIC LECTURE FLYER (PDF)

Conference mixer

Time: 7.30 – 8.30 pm
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
Venue: Foyer, Eastern Avenue Complex, The University of Sydney

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Conference dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 15 July 2010 from 6.30 pm in The Refectory in the Holme Building at the University of Sydney. The Holme Building is located on Science Rd of the Camperdown campus.

*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DINNER HAS MOVED FROM THE GREAT HALL TO THE REFECTORY IN THE HOLME BUILDING ***


Download a map of the Camperdown campus (map reference E17)

The Refectory is the grand hall of the Holme Building at the University of Sydney and was built in 1924; it takes its name from the grand dining halls within Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The Refectory evokes an atmosphere of sophisticated elegance with its fine timber panelled walls, soaring ceilings and exquisite French doors opening onto the terrace, overlooking the cottage lawn.

The Refectory

Conference dinner tickets
Please note that conference dinner tickets are NOT included in the registration fee. Tickets can be purchased for A$110 per person (including GST) at the time of registration. Numbers are limited to 200 people, so purchase your ticket early to avoid disappointment. If conference dinner tickets have reached capacity, the SCC2010 Secretariat will advise you of your status.

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Scientific awards

Congratulations to the following prize winners at SCC2010:

Cancer Research Network Innovation Award – joint winners

  • Dr Claire Wakefield
  • Dr Chris Scarlett

Cancer Research Network Postgraduate Oral Presentation Awards

  • Zeenia Kaul - basic biomedical cancer research
  • Steven Kao - public health and/or clinical cancer research and treatment
  • Joanna Fardell - psychosocial aspects of cancer care

Cancer Research Network Postgraduate Poster Awards

  • Florence Cheung - basic biomedical cancer research
  • Jerry Zhou - public health and/or clinical cancer research and treatment
  • Adam Walczak - psychosocial aspects of cancer care
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