Contemporary Management of Complex Skin Cancers 2016

Contemporary Management of Complex Skin Cancers is organized by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and would be held during Nov 4 - 5, 2016 at Zuckerman Research Center, New York, United States of America.

The target audience includes physicians and allied health professionals, who care for patients with skin cancer, including dermatologists, surgical and medical oncologists, otolaryngologists, ophthalmologists, general surgeons, plastic surgeons, pathologists and radiation oncologists. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

The purpose of this course is to provide the attendee with a multidisciplinary management approach for patients with skin cancer, including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, merkel cell carcinoma, melanoma and other complex skin cancers. The topics will focus on advances in epidemiology, pathology and imaging, medical and surgical management and radiation therapy. Complex skin cancer cases will be presented and discussed in a tumor board style with a multidisciplinary panel of experts.

Conference Objectives are :
• Describe melanoma and non melanoma skin cancer incidence and behavior
• Define factors contributing to behavior and outcome of skin cancers
• Define characteristics of skin cancers that require aggressive treatment
• Understand benefits, limitations, and integration of different modalities used in the treatment of skin cancers.
• Review novel approaches to optimize surgical treatment of skin cancers
• Assess role and variety of radiotherapeutic approaches to complex skin cancers
• Review role of biological therapy in the treatment of advanced skin cancers
• Examine the optimal approaches toward reconstruction of defects resulting from resection of skin cancers.