Cancer Outcomes Conference 2012

The Cancer Outcomes Conference will take place on 14th and 15th June 2012 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.

Abstracts are now invited for oral and poster presentations at the conference; the closing date for submissions is 31 March. We are pleased to offer authors the opportunity to submit their abstract to the NCRI Cancer Conference at the same time.

Exhibition places are available, please see the Exhibitor flyer for information, the deadline for registering to exhibit is 31 March.

The conference programme

The following programme is subject to change.

Day one – 14th June

09:00    Registration and exhibition

10:00    Opening plenary session

AM Parallel sessions

• Screening, prevention and early diagnosis
• Patient experience and reported outcomes
• National cancer registration and data processing
• Cancer audit

Using clinical information to improve services and outcomes plenary session

PM Parallel sessions

• Survivorship
• Staging
• Less common cancers
• Going beyond cancer

Supporting commissioning plenary session

19:30    Conference dinner

Day two – 15th June

09:00    Research plenary session

AM Parallel sessions

• Health economics
• International focus
• Co-morbidity and risk adjustment
• Recurrence and late effects

PM Parallel sessions

• Information for the public and data visualisation
• Inequalities in cancer
• Primary Care
• Ethics and consent

Closing plenary session

15:30    Close of conference