November 2-4, 2006
Scheveningen
The Hague, Netherland

The conference was a great success, being attended by most European experts, and many from North America and the rest of the world. Delegates came from everywhere, indicating the worldwide importance of the question.

The meeting started with an original session on how to conduct clinical trials in elderly. Overall survival is a bad endpoint for this population, and should be replaced by disease free survival. Genetics and physiology of aging were explained, followed by a session on the use of targeted therapies in elderly cancer patients. There were also several sessions on specific tumour types presented by experts from various specialities, surgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology and nursing. Several task forces from SIOG presented the first guidelines focusing on elderly cancer patients with topics ranging from geriatric assessment, chemotherapy toxicity, renal function, approach to anaemia and neutropenia, breast cancer and prostate cancer, to gastrointestinal cancer.

Programme

Find here a Meeting Report by U. Wedding.

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