SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Thursday, December 14, 2006

09:00 Registration Foyer Teddy

Coffee / Tea and Visit the Exhibition Pincus Hall

09:30 - 10:00 Opening Session Oren 2

WELCOMING REMARKS

U. Lupolianski, Mayor of Jerusalem

M.M. Krausz, Chairman, Israel Surgical Association

M. Ziv, Director General of the Israel Cancer Association

Co-Chairmen: Y. Ziv, Chairman, Israel Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery

S. Schneebaum, Chairman, Israeli Society of Surgical Oncology

Y. Niv, Chairman, Gastrointestinal Oncology Section of the Israeli

Association of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases

10:00 - 10:40 Plenary Session I Oren 2

INVITED LECTURE

10:00 INTRODUCTION: V.W. FAZIO

Y. Ziv, Division of Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

10:05 Surgery of Advanced Rectal Cancer
V.W. Fazio, Chairman, Dept. of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Lecture is sponsored by:

The David Yanir Foundation for the Advancement of Colon and

Rectal Surgery in Israel

10:40 Coffee Break and Visit the Exhibition Pincus Hall

Thursday, December 14, 2006 (cont.)

11:10 - 12:30 Plenary Session II Oren 2

INVITED LECTURES

SIMULTANEOUS COLONIC CANCER AND LIVER METASTESES

Chairpersons: H. Gutman, Israel

M. Krausz, Israel

11:10 CLINICAL PRESENTATION

Z. Fireman

Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center,

Hadera, Israel

11.20 SURGICAL APPROACH - ONE STAGE?

A. Czerniak

Dept. of Surgery Oncology, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

11:30 SURGICAL APPROACH - STAGED PROCEDURE?
F. Greif

Dept. of Surgery A, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel

11:40 NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT - IS IT PREFERABLE?

B. Brenner

Oncology Institute, Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel

11:50 NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT - SURGICAL RISKS
M. Ben Haim

Dept. of Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

12:00 ROUND TABLE

Moderator: A. Czerniak, Israel

Participants: V.W. Fazio, USA

M. Ben Haim, Israel

B. Brenner, Israel

Z. Fireman, Israel

F. Greif, Israel

M. Krausz, Israel

Thursday, December 14, 2006 (cont.)

12:30 - 13:50 Parallel Session 1 Oren 2

FREE PAPERS

COLORECTAL CANCER

Chairpersons: M. Rabau, Israel

E. Sternberg, Israel

12:30 Long term oncological results of laparoscopic colectomy

D. Rosin

Dept. of General Surgery and Transplantation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center,

Tel Hashomer, Israel

12:40 USING BEVCIZUMAB COMBINED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY IN ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER

S. Man

Depts. of Oncology and Surgery B, Soroka University Medical Center,

Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

12:50 CHANGING INCIDENCE AND SITES OF COLORECTAL CANCER IN

ISRAELI JEWS AND ARABS AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

P. Rozen

Dept. of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,

Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:00 SURGICAL SALVAGE FOR LOCALLY RECURRENT RECTAL CARCINOMA

AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION

J. Barkat

Dept. of Surgery B, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty

of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

13:10 NEOADJUVANT BEVACIZUMB (BV)-FOLFIRI REGIMEN FOR HEPATIC COLORECTAL (CRC) METASTASES IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE AND

COMPLETE PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE CAN BE PREDICTED WITH HIGH SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY

An Israeli multi-center collaborative study of the Israeli Gastrointestinal

Cancer Group (IGCG) - Presented by:

D. Aderka

Divisions of Oncology and Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center,

Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:20 NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY PRIOR TO HEPATIC RESECTION OF COLORECTAL METASTASES IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED

MORTALITY AND HIGHER COMPLICATION RATE

N. Lubezky

Dept. of Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Thursday, December 14, 2006 (cont.)

12:30 - 13:50 Parallel Session 1(cont.) Oren 2

FREE PAPERS

13:30 PROLONGING THE INTERVAL BETWEEN NEOADJUVANT THERAPY

AND SURGERY IMPROVES PATHOLOGIC COMPLETE RESPONSE

AND DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY

ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER

H. Tulchinsky

Proctology Unit, Dept. of Surgery B, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,

Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

13:40 IS MRI THE ANSWER TO ACCURATE LOCAL STAGING OF RECTAL

CANCER? THE EARLY SHEBA EXPERIENCE

M. Venturero

Dept. of Surgery & Surgical Oncology C, Chaim Sheba Medical Center,

Tel Hashomer, Israel

13:50 Lunch and Visit the Exhibition Pincus Hall

12:30 - 13:50 Parallel Session 2 Oren 4

FREE PAPERS

NURSES

Chairpersons: O. Zmora, Israel

A. Yaffe, Israel

12:30 Laparoscopic colon surgery: A Nurse's perspective

N.M. Daniel, Dept. of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston,

FL