The event included six pillars representing treatment programmes: breast cancer programme, gastrointestinal cancers programme, gynaecological cancers programme, genitourinary cancers program, head, neck and thoracic cancers program, and rare cancers programme. Each program shows the most important symptoms and ways of preventing cancers that fall within it.
The 13th HPB café had the pleasure to invite Prof. Timothy M.Pawlik who talked about the importance of multidisciplinary treatment approach for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma which includes the integration of perioperative chemotherapy and targeted treatment. His talk was preceded by an article presentation by our surgical resident Dr. Ola Al Hamadani. The paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis of the value of lymph node dissection intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
In the 12th HPB café session, Prof. Fabrizio Romano discussed the advances in immunotherapy treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma. He talked about the surgical techniques followed to manage the localized disease. This session commenced with an article discussion by our surgical resident Dr. Samah Al Alawi. The article was a phase III randomized study evaluating the benefit of postoperative adjuvant hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with FOLFOX in hepatocellular carcinoma with microvascular invasion in comparison to the control group of follow-up.
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