CCHRC Silchar National Workshop on Clinical Trials in Cancer/6th Annual Conference of Association of Oncologists of North East India AONEI 2011

National workshop on Clinical Trials in Cancer

February 10, 2011

&

6th Annual Conference of Association of Oncologists of North East India (AONEI)

February 11 to 12, 2011

Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre

Silchar

Assam

Tel: +91 3842 224795;

E.Mail: admin@cacharcancerhospital.org;

Web: www.cacharcancerhospital.org

Venue: Lecture Hall, Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Silchar

Theme

Cancer is amongst the most feared diseases in the world. In the 19th century, astute clinical observations made by clinicians and pathologists gave us some insight into the causes and outcomes of various cancers. The area of cancer research began to grow rapidly by the end of the 19th century.

Physicians have moved from being able to do very little to treat patients to achieving survival and cure rates no one believed possible. Just a few decades ago, young investigators and physicians were often told not to go into oncology because the disease is so complex and the clinical outcomes were so discouraging. Today, oncology is one of the most exciting fields in biomedicine because of the many astonishing advances research continues to yield. 

Research is must for the development of new effective anti-Cancer medicines, and improving the existing anti-Cancer treatment. This workshop will aim to raise research questions associated with candidate anti-cancer medicines, their clinical trials in northeastern India and other relevant research questions that are concerned with such a high prevalence rate of cancer in this geographical region of India. This workshop will help the participants to understand better the prospect of clinical trial and research in the field of cancer in northeastern India. 

Organization 

Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (CCHRC), Silchar is organizing its first national workshop on clinical trials in cancer in northeastern region of India. 

Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CCHRC), established (in 1996) and administered by a non-profit NGO, the Cachar Cancer Hospital Society, is located in the outskirts of Silchar town in the Barak Valley of Assam in India. The hospital serves an extremely underserved and economically impoverished community of patients from the Barak valley districts of Assam state and from the states of Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram. 

The hospital sees more than 4000 new and 10000 follow-up patients annually. The last few years have seen a steady rise in the workload of the hospital testifying to the faith the community has developed in the hospital. The hospital makes efforts to offer the best treatment possible to all the patients irrespective of their socio-economic status. 

Speakers and Topics 

1. An overview of Clinical trial design
Speaker: Dr. S. G Ramanan, Director, Madras Cancer Care Foundation, Chennai.
2. Ethical concerns in the conduct of research on human subjects
Speaker: Dr. Pattatheyil Arun, Consultant, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Medial Center Cancer Hospital, Kolkata.
3. Statistical methods in the analysis of trial outcomes
Speaker: To be finalized.
4. Integrating laboratory science with clinical trials: the way forward
Speaker: Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose, Head, Oncology Dev., Narayan Hrudayalaya, Bangalore.
5. Facilitating Physican- Scientist interaction: Perspectives from a Scientist:
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sankar Kr. Ghosh, HOD, Dept. of Biotech, Assam University, Silchar 

Program details for AONEI conference (Feb 11-12, 2011) 

Theme: 

The theme of the conference will be “G.I. Oncology”. 

Contents: 

The program have a pre-conference live surgical oncology workshop supervised by Dr. Ravi Kannan, Director, CCHRC on Feb 11, 2011 from 08:00 A.M to 04:00 P.M. CME on Feb 12, 2011. 

Topics: 

Oesophageal Cancer
Epidemiology and preoperative workup.
Surgical Management
Radiation Therapy
Chemotherapy
Palliative Care 

Who should attend the workshop and AONEI conference 

Physicians, surgeons, scientists, faculty and research students having interest in cancer research.

Everyone who is interested are invited. 

Presentation: 

We invite you to present paper on topics related to your area of interest. We request you to send the abstracts of your presentation (s) by email to jadunath.buragohain@cacharcancerhospital.org or rajeev.kvhfc@cacharcancerhospital.org

 

Latest by January 31, 2011. 

The preferred paper session will be in two parts

(I). G.I
(II). Non G.I 

Registration 

Those who are interested to participate in the Workshop or Conference or Both should submit their CV/Resume/Bio-data through email to rajeev.kvhfc@cacharcancerhospital.org on or before February 07, 2011. No registration fee will be charged to those who contact us through this way.

On the spot registration at 7.30 A.M to 10.00 A.M at the Lecture Hall, Cachar Cancer hospital & Research Centre, Silchar, India on February 10, 2011 and Feb 11, 2011. On the spot registration Fee of Rs 100/- will be charged against the participation either in Workshop or Conference or Both. If you want to participate in both workshop and conference, you have to pay Rs100/- only in case of on-the-spot registration. 

Accommodation 

You have to arrange your accommodation on yourself. No TA/DA will be paid. 

Organizing Secretary for Workshop and Conference

 

Dr. Jadunath Buragohain
Surgical Oncologist
Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Silchar, Assam, India
Email: jadunath.buragohain@cacharcancerhospital.org
Cell: +91 9435346709 

Joint Organizing Secretary for Workshop

 

Mr. Rajeev Kumar
DBT Project Fellow
Molecular Oncology Lab
Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Silchar, Assam, India
Email: rajeev.kvhfc@cacharcancerhospital.org
Cell: +91 7896285760

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