08:30 - 12:30 | Pre-symposium robotics course

Details to be announced, Registration necessary but not open yet

12:00 - 12:30 | Opening Ceremony & Presidential Address

Main Hall

Markus Müller - Dean of the Medical University Vienna
Honorary lecture: The Role of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Christoph Zielinski - Medical Director of Wiener Privatklinik, President Central European Cancer Center, President of CECOG

Béla Teleky - President and Founder of the EFR - European Federation for ColoRectal Cancer

12:30 - 14:00 | Session 1 Oncology

Main Hall

Chairs:

12:30 - 12:50 Eric van Cutsem The optimal duration of adjuvant treatment of colon cancer
12:50 - 13:10 Dirk Arnold Neoadjuvant Treatment in Colon Cancer in MSIH disease and MSS: Is the time come up to limit surgery
13:10 - 13:30 Gerald Prager Results of the Atomic Study
13:30 – 13:45 Irene Kührer Multidisciplinary Tumorboard
13:45 – 14:00 Discussion

14:00 - 14:30 | Coffee break and Visit to the Industrial Exhibition

Foyer

14:30 - 16:00 | Session 2 Resectability in advanced disease

Main Hall

Chairs:

14:30 - 14:45 Regina Beets-Tan Rectal cancer imaging: How to identify the different risk groups
14:45 - 15:00 Patrick Starlinger Pushing the limits of respectability in CRC-liver metastasis
15:00 - 15:15 Clemens Aigner Advances in pulmonary metastasectomy for CRC
15:15 - 15:30 Klaus Kaczirek Go beyond the bounderies in surgery for CRC
15:30 - 15:45 Patrick Starlinger Transplantation for CRC Liver Metastasis and the Utility of Living Donation
15.45 – 16:00 Walter Brunner Transanal approach to rectal cancer surgery – What´s the benefit?
16:00 – 16:15 Discussion

16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break and Visit to the Industrial Exhibition

Foyer

16:45 - 18:00 | Special Lectures

Main Hall

Moderation: Béla Teleky, Irene Kührer

16:45 – 17:10 Bill Heald The Pioneer of TME: no evolution, no revolution without him
17:15 - 17:35 Rodrigo Perez Defining a cCR in real-life cases – clinical, endoscopic and radiological features – outside of the ordinary
17:40 - 18:00 Martin Weiser Salvage treatment for regrowth

18:15 | Bus-Transfer

Entrance

18:30 | Q&A and Networking Event

Leopold Museum (Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien - registration necessary)

The Leopold Museum, with more than 8.300 works, houses one of the world’s most important collections of Austrian art from the second half of the nineteenth century and Modernism.