All conference events will take place at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

A resource table will be available throughout the conference.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010:
8:00 - 8:45: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00: Welcome
9:00 - 9:15: Patient and Caregiver Perspective
9:15 - 9:30: OMF Updates and Vision
9:30 - 10:30: Keynote: Thomas P. Sellers, MPA, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
10:30 - 10:45: Break
10:45 - 12:15: Small Group Break-Outs (Facilitated by DFCI Social Workers)
12:15 - 1:15: Lunch
1:15 - 2:45: Clinician and Researcher Panel One / Q&A*
2:45 - 3:00: Break
3:00 - 5:00: Clinician and Researcher Panel Two / Q&A**
5:00 - 5:15: Break
5:15 - 6:15: How to Navigate Clinical Trials (Facilitated by DFCI Nurses)
6:30 - 8:15: Dinner and Musical Entertainment: Singer/Songwriter Miss Tess

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010:
8:00 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00: Integrative Therapies Panel (Organized by the Zakim Center at DFCI)***
10:00 - 10:15: Break
10:15 - 11:15: Small Group Break-Outs (Facilitated by DFCI Social Workers)
11:15 - 12:15: Using Mindfulness to Cope with Cancer (DFCI Facilitators)
12:15 - 12:30: Closing and Thank You!

* Clinician and Researcher Speaker Panel 1:
Dr. Miguel Materin, MD, Ophthalmologist – Yale University
Dr. Takami Sato, MD, PhD, Medical Oncologist - Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Scott Woodman, MD, PhD, Medical Oncologist - MD Anderson Cancer Center

Topics will include:
What to expect following the primary treatment
Genetic testing to the primary tumor
Adjuvant therapy options
Screening/scanning options
Introduction to clinical trials
How to get a biopsy of tissue and what testing to do with it
What are GNAQ and GNA11 and what are the implications?

** Clinician and Researcher Speaker Panel 2:
Dr. Keith Flaherty, MD, Medical Oncologist - Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. F. Stephen Hodi, MD, Medical Oncologist - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Anand Mahadevan, MD, Radiation Oncologist - Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
Dr. Charles Nutting, MD, Interventional Radiologist - Swedish Medical Center

Topics will include:
Options for liver directed therapy: embolization, ablation, PHP, etc.
Extra-hepatic local treatment options: radiation, ablation, etc.
Systemic treatment options
Immunotherapy: Ipilimumab and PD-1
IFN and IL-2
Are there vaccines for uveal melanoma?
Targeted agents for uveal melanoma (i.e. MEK inhibitors, IGF1R, etc)
Finding centers performing a specific type of treatment

*** Integrative Therapies Speaker Panel:
TBD

Topics will include:
Navigating integrative approaches in conjunction with other treatments
Nutrition
Acupuncture/Energy Healing

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