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Dear colleagues,

June 8, 2005 Welcome June 8, the scientific program of this First Multidisciplinary International Conference on Gynecologic Cancer aims to address some of the most crucial topics in gyne- cologic oncology, present the latest achievements and, at the same time lay the Sala Italia 2

guidelines for future developments in the field. 005

The extremely high scientific level of speakers attending the conference will make this goal attainable. The scientific program is designed not only to have views and ideas shared and compared among gynecologists but also with oncologists and researchers in basic science. The scientific committee strongly believe in the “Multidisciplinary approach” toward the medicine and particularly toward the 3.30 pm Opening ceremony and Authorities greetings patient.

The objective of this interaction is to underline that the “reductionist approach”, 4.30 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE even if still necessary, is not sufficient in the modern era to make significant prog- PAPILLOMAVIRUSES ress in applying the latest achievements in gynecology, oncology, pathology and AS CAUSATIVE AGENTS FOR GYNAECOLOGICAL molecular biology. In other words the “reductionist approach” is not sufficient to reach the ultimate goal: Improving cancer care in humans. Indeed , biomedical AND OTHER CANCERS science is moving more and more towards “a holistic approach” in the treatment Zur Hausen H ( Heidelberg, Germany ) of cancer patients.

We have chosen , this first time, Bologna that is the capital of the region Emilia 6.00 pm Welcome Cocktail Romagna in Italy . Bologna is the largest city between Milan and Florence , the communication center of the peninsula, the heart of a region characterized by pragmatism.

Bologna boasts an historical center packed with medieval buildings, elegant Re- naissance architecture and Baroque monuments. The city is well respected for its financial and administrative efficiency and is re- nowned for its excellent university, the ALMA MATER STUDIORUM , one of the first universities to be founded in the world. 2 3 We warmly welcome you in Bologna ,

Robert J. Kurman Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Antonio Giordano Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, , , Luciano Bovicelli Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bologna

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June 9, 2005 Ovarian Cancer 12.30 pm Lunch June 9, 005

2 Sala Italia Session 2 2 005

June 9, Chairmen Massi G B ( Florence, Italy ) Chairmen Mancuso S ( Rome, Italy ) Pecorelli S ( Brescia, Italy ) Vadora E ( Parma, Italy )

Session 1 2.30 pm STATE OF THE ART ON THE ROLE OF ULTRASOUND IN OVARIAN CANCER DETECTION 9.00 am PLENARY LECTURE Cacciatore B ( Helsinki, Finland ) OVERVIEW Bast RC Jr ( Houston, USA ) 3.00 pm SURGICAL STANDARDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED STAGE OVARIAN CANCER 9.45 am PATHOLOGY: BORDERLINE OVARIAN Giuntoli RL IInd ( Baltimore, USA ) CANCER: TIME FOR A NEW CLASSIFICATION Kurman RJ ( Baltimore, USA ) 3.30 pm Coffee break

10.15 am Coffee break 4.00 pm STATE OF THE ART OF CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT IN OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS: GOG 10.30 am MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: CELL CYCLE RELATED (GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY GROUP) GENES AND THEIR ROLE IN OVARIAN CARCINOGENESIS PROTOCOLS IN THE UNITED STATES D’Andrilli G ( Philadelphia, USA ) Armstrong D ( Baltimore, USA )

4 11.00 am MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND 4.30 pm CHEMOTHERAPY MANAGEMENT OF ELDERLY 5 PRINCIPLES OF THERAPY IN OVARIAN CANCER GYNECOLOGIC CANCER PATIENTS: IS AGE 70 A LIMIT? Boyd J ( New York, USA ) Ceccaroni M ( Bologna, Italy )

11.30 am ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Chairman 7.30 pm Palazzo Re Enzo - Salone del Podestà Bovicelli A ( Bologna, Italy ) COCKTAIL

9.00 pm Teatro Medica Palace JOSÉ CARRERAS IN CONCERT With Lorenzo Bavaj, piano & Nuovo Quartetto Italiano

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005 June 10, 2005 - Endometrial Cancer 005 2 2 Session 2 Sala Italia

2 Chairmen Benedetti Panici P ( Rome, Italy ) 2 005 005 June 10, Session 1 June 10, Sbiroli C ( Rome, Italy )

2.30 pm PLACE OF HYSTEROSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS Chairmen Ambrosini A ( Padova, Italy ) OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER AND PRE-INVASIVE LESIONS. Franchi M ( Verona, Italy ) Zupi E ( Rome, Italy )

3.00 pm STATE OF THE ART OF RADICAL 9.00 am PLENARY LECTURE: OVERVIEW ABDOMINAL APPROACH: WHEN AND HOW? Berchuck A ( Durham, USA ) Sartori E ( Brescia, Italy )

9.45 am EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS IN ENDOMETRIAL CANCER 3.30 pm Coffee break Sherman M ( Rockville, USA ) 3.45 pm DIFFERENT SURGICAL APPROACHES 10.15 am ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA FOR ENDOMETRIAL CANCER PATIENTS AND ENDOMETRIAL CANCER Susini T ( Florence, Italy ) Kurman RJ ( Baltimore, USA ) 4.15 pm RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT 10.45 am Coffee break IN ENDOMETRIAL CANCER PATIENTS Barbieri E ( Bologna, Italy ) 6 11.00 am MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND ENDOMETRIAL CANCER 7 Mutter G ( Boston, USA ) 4.45 pm CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT IN ENDOMETRIAL CANCER PATIENTS: “STATE OF THE ART” 11.30 am ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Armstrong D ( Baltimore, USA ) Chairman Greggi S ( , Italy ) 5.15 pm HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR SURVIVORS OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER: STATE OF THE ART 12.30 pm Lunch Twiggs L ( Miami, USA )

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12.30 pm Lunch June 11, 005 June 11, 2005 - Cervical Cancer 005 2 2

Sala Italia Session 2 2 005 June 11, Session 1 June 11, Chairmen Bianchi U ( Brescia, Italy ) Fedele L ( Milan, Italy ) Chairmen Mangioni C ( Monza, Italy ) Sismondi P ( Turin, Italy ) 2.30 pm ACTUAL DIAGNOSTIC ROLE OF HPV-DNA TESTING AND COLPOSCOPY Twiggs L ( Miami, USA ) 9.00 am PLENARY LECTURE OVERVIEW 3.00 pm ANATOMO-SURGICAL BASIS FOR NERVE-SPARING Sherman M ( Rockville, USA ) RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY IN CERVICAL CANCER Ceccaroni M ( Bologna, Italy ) 9.45 am EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS IN CERVICAL CANCER Kjaer S ( Copenhagen, Denmark ) 3.30 pm STATE OF THE ART OF THE RADICAL APPROACH Scambia G ( Campobasso, Italy ) 10.15 am PATHOLOGY: CERVICAL CANCER AND PRE- NEOPLASTIC LESIONS 4.00 pm Coffee break Stoler MH ( Charlottsville, USA ) 4.15 pm PLACE FOR EXENTERATIVE SURGERY 10.45 am Coffee break IN CERVICAL CANCER TREATMENT Maggioni A ( Milan, Italy ) 8 11.00 am ROLE OF MOLECULAR MARKERS IN CERVICAL CANCER 9 Stoler MH ( Charlottsville, USA ) 4.45 pm PLACE OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN CERVICAL CANCER MANAGEMENT 11.30 am NEW TRENDS IN CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS Armstrong D ( Baltimore, USA ) Bibbo M ( Philadelphia, USA ) 5.15 pm COMPLICATIONS OF RADICAL SURGERY Angioli R ( Rome, Italy )

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005 June 12, 2005 - Vulvar Cancer 005 2 2

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Sala Italia 2 Chairmen Mollica G ( Ferrara, Italy ) 2 005 005 June 1 June 10, Moscarini M ( Rome, Italy ) Session 1

11.00 am DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN VULVAR CANCER Chairman Ferrari A ( Milan, Italy ) Micheletti L ( Turin, Italy)

11.30 am NEW TRENDS IN SURGICAL 9.00 am PLENARY LECTURE APPROACH OF INVASIVE VULVAR CANCER OVERVIEW Micheletti L ( Turin, Italy ) Twiggs L ( Miami, USA ) 12.00 pm IDENTIFICATION OF SENTINEL LYMPH 9.45 am PATHOLOGY: VULVAR CANCER NODES IN VULVAR CARCINOMA PATIENTS AND PRE-INVASIVE LESIONS Sideri M ( Milan, Italy ) Kurman R J ( Baltimore, USA ) 12.30 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE 10.15 am Rb2/p130: A NEW PLAYER IN GYNECOLOGIC CANCER GYNECOLOGIC CANCER IN THE NEW Bovicelli A ( Bologna, Italy) MILLENIUM: THE NECESSARY HOLISTIC APPROACH Giordano A ( Philadelphia, USA - Siena, Italy ) 10.45 am Coffee break 10 1.15 pm CLOSING CEREMONY 11

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2 June 9, 2005 June 10, 2005

ROUND TABLE ROUND TABLE 2 005 June 9, Sala Azzurra Sala Azzurra

“MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND ITS CLINICAL IMPACT” “SECOND LEVEL GYNECOLOGIC ULTRASOUND: 3.00-6.00 pm THE ROLE OF AN EXPERT” 3.00-6.00 pm

Chairman Chairmen Giordano A ( Philadelphia, USA - Siena, Italy ) Rizzo N ( Bologna, Italy ), Scollo P ( Catania, Italy )

Speakers Speakers

SCREEENING MOLECULAR MARKERS OVARIAN CANCER STAGING: PREDICTION OF RESECTABILITY AND GYNECOLOGIC TUMORS Savelli L ( Bologna, Italy ) Bast R ( Houston, USA ) EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF OVARIAN CANCER: PATTERN MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND CLINICAL RECOGNITION VERSUS SCORING SYSTEMS THERAPY OF GYNECOLOGIC TUMORS Timmerman D ( Leuven, Belgium ) 12 Boyd J ( New York, USA ) 13 TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF GENE THERAPY CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE STATE OF THE ART Cacciatore B ( Helsinki, Finland ) Giordano A ( Philadelphia, USA - Siena, Italy ) TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY IN THE FOLLOW-UP OF GYNECOLOGIC CANCERS Testa A ( Rome, Italy )

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Conference Venue Official languages June 11, 2005 Palazzo dei Congressi English and Italian will be the official languages: Piazza della Costituzione, 4, Bologna (Italy) simultaneous translation will be available. June 11, General Info 005

2 Scientific Secretariat Coffee points ROUND TABLE Alessandro Bovicelli (coordinator) Michela Ceccarini Several coffee points will be freely working throughout the Marcello Ceccaroni Meeting in the commercial exhibition area. Sala Azzurra 2 Luca Savelli 005 June 11, Lunches Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, University of Lunches will be organized in the congress venue at a cost of “DIFFERENT SURGICAL APPROACHES IN THE Bologna Euro 25,00 per lunch (VAT included). Via Massarenti 13, 40100 MANAGEMENT OF EARLY CERVICAL CANCER: Bologna (Italy) e-mail: scientifi[email protected] Attendance Certificate FROM CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES TO THEIR Phone + 39 051 397637 Registered participants will receive, on request, an LAPAROSCOPIC EVOLUTIONS” + 39 347 2423475 attendance certificate at the end of the Congress, available + 39 347 0698979 at the reception desk. 9.00 am-12 .00 pm + 39 328 8995266 Fax + 39 051 6363493 Audiovisuals Facilities will be available for video and Pc projection. A Organizing Secretariat Chairmen multi medial slide centre will collect all the Powerpointfiles Bologna Congressi SpA Benedetti Panici P ( Rome, Italy ), Minelli L ( Negrar-Verona, Italy ), Piazza Costituzione 4/A ( on floppy or CD Rom) which must be delivered at least one Scambia G ( Campobasso, Italy ) I-40128 Bologna hour before the beginning of the relevant session. Phone ++39 051 276212 All other slides with plastic frames must be brought to the Fax ++39 051 271042 slide centre at least two hours before the beginning of SCHAUTA-AMREICH RADICAL VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY: e-mail: [email protected] the Session, as they previously need to be scanned for a presentation through PC. State of the art, Actual role Registration fee The registration fee to the Symposium Susini T ( Florence, Italy ) is Euro 600,00 (VAT included) Secretariat The secretariat will be open throughout the Meeting Reduced fee for postgraduate students 200,00 (VAT included) sessions. CELIO-SCHAUTA LAPAROSCOPIC-ASSISTED RADICAL It includes: • Conference kit Taxi VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY: State of the art, Actual role • Certificate of attendance Radiotaxi phone numbers are • Welcome cocktail 051-372727. 051-534141. Schneider A ( Berlin, Germany ) • Simultaneous translation • Coffee-breaks Daily registration fee will be possible at Euro 240,00 Electricity supply 14 TYPE III ABDOMINAL RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY: (VAT included) Voltage in Italy is 220 V. A transformer is needed for 15 electrical and electronic equipment using different voltage. STATE OF THE ART, ACTUAL ROLE Social Events Fanfani F ( Campobasso, Italy ) June 9 7.30 pm Cocktail Climate (Palazzo Re Enzo Salone del Podestà) The weather in Italy in June is usually temperate with June 9 9.00 pm Concert Ceccaroni M ( Bologna, Italy ) temperature ranging from 18 C to 24 C and few rainy days. (Teatro Medica Palace) TYPE III TOTALLY LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL Hotel Accommodation Banking and currency exchange For hotel booking please ask the reception desk. The Italian currency is the Euro. Currency may be HYSTERECTOMY: STATE OF THE ART, ACTUAL ROLE exchanged within the airport, the train station and at major Wattiez A ( Strasbourg, France ), Barbieri F ( Negrar-Verona, Italy ) To make your hotel reservation, banks. Banks are generally open from Monday to Friday from please contact: 8.30 to 1.00 p. m . Muzii L ( Rome, Italy ) Bologna Congressi Convention and Travel - Piazza Costituzione 5/e 40128 Bologna , Italy , Badges Ph. +39 051 6375111 Gold - Honorary President Silver - President Fax +39 051 6375149 Green - Chairman / Speaker Red - Participant e-mail: [email protected] Yellow - Postgraduate Blue - Staff

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