May 13 – May 16, 2010 CNETS, the Carcinoid Neuroendocrine Tumor Society of Canada, will present Canada’s largest ever Carcinoid Neuroendocrine International Conference and Symposium for medical professionals and patients from Thursday, May 13 through Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Top specialists in neuroendocrine diseases from eight different countries will come together with patients, caregivers, and medical professionals to talk about Neuroendocrine Cancers: Networks of Expertise. The beautiful Coast Plaza Hotel, overlooking English Bay and Stanley Park, will be the venue for the conference. Space is limited to 375 attendees.
MEN, carcinoid, and neuroendocrine tumor patients, family members, advocacy groups, physicians, and caregivers are invited to attend MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Multiple Endocrine Neoplasias PatientEducation Conference in Houston, Texas. Download a conference flyer...
Y-90 Radiomicrosphere Therapy Workshop will be presented by “Advances in Minimally Invasive Treatments” International Congress and Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The Program Director is carcinoid/NET specialist Seza A. Gulec, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University College of Medicine.
The workshop welcomes interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, radiation oncologists, medical and surgical oncologists, scientists and technologists in the nuclear radiology and physics fields and all other professionals who have interest in radiomicrosphere therapy.
Saturday, July 17, 2010 and Saturday, September 25, 2010
InterScience Institute (ISI) and the CarcinoidCancer Awareness Network (CCAN) are presenting their first joint conferences for carcinoid and neuroendocrine cancer patients, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis, Treatment and Monitoring of NETs.”
The July 17th conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza SanFrancisco International Airport Hotel in Burlingame, California. For those on the East Coast, the same conference will be presented at the Crowne Plaza Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 25th. For further information and registration, click here: http://www.carcinoidawareness.org/.
October
October 29 and 30, 2010
The North American NeuroEndocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) is hosting its Third Neuroendocrine Tumor Symposium for physicians and healthcare professionals in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
November
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Worldwide Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness Day
For patients, caregivers, and medical professionals
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Guest Speaker: Michael J. Demeure, MD, MBA
Endocrine and Oncology Surgeon; Director, Endocrine Tumors Center, Scottsdale Healthcare; Senior Investigator, TGen (Translational Genomics Institute) Clinical Research Service, Arizona
Dr. Demeure’s lecture will be “Determining Molecular Signature: A Guide for Targeted Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors.”
March 2010
March 11 and 12, 2010 The 7th Annual ENETS Conference for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease will be held in Berlin, Germany.
North American NeuroEndocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) Is Hosting it's Second Physician Symposium In Charlotte, North Carolina
October 17, 2009 NJ Plans One Day Conference
The New Jersey Carcinoid Cancer Network (NJ-CCN) has been at work putting together a one day lecture event being held on October 17th, 2009. This will be the first lecture held in New Jersey and we have chosen a location that is not only easy to get to, but fun to be at.
The place is Manahawkin, NJ. In “New Jersey Speak” that’s Parkway “exit 58” (as in “what exit?). This is only a few minutes from Long Beach Island, home to some of the best beaches in New Jersey. Read more
EDUCATING THE GLOBAL MEDICAL COMMUNITY / AT THE 45TH ASCO ANNUAL MEETING
May 29 - June 2. 2009
Exhibit dates Saturday and Sunday May 30, 31 and Monday June 1
(From 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Orlando, FL The CCF, together with CCAN and representatives from NANETS, ENETS,members from various US support and advocacy groups again for the third time exhibited at the 45th ASCO Annual Meeting (ASCO= the American Society for Clinical Oncologists).
Oncology nurses, pharmacists, genetic counselors and other health care professionals in related fields attend ASCO’s Annual Meeting. Educational and scientific sessions at the Meeting offer cutting-edge information on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer. About 24,000 medical professionals from the US and many other countries attended.
Rodney Pommier, M.D. (Surgical Oncologist)
Professor of Surgery
Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland, OR. Patient Section 3 pm -5 pm: Survival Stories and Networking Living with a Rare Disease (Panel discussion)
Patients and caregivers perspectives
SPAIN 2009
ENETS' Board of Directors ENETS The European Neuroendocrine
Tumor Society held its 6th Annual ENETS Conference for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease
5-7 March 2009 in Granada, Spain.
700 physicians from all over the world attended this meeting
The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation(CCF) was represented by
(from left)Drs Curran, Shafir and Warner, from MSH, NYC presenting a
CCF sponsored reserarch project
"Serum and Ascites Chromogranin A in patients with Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors"
Drs Curran, Shafir and Warner, from MSH, NYC
EDUCATING THE GLOBAL MEDICAL COMMUNITY / AT THE 44TH ASCO MEETING The CCF, together with CCAN and representatives from NANETS, ENETS,CNETS-Canada, andmembers from various US support and advocacy groups, exhibited again at the 44th ASCO Annual Meeting (ASCO= the American Society for Clinical Oncologists).
Oncology nurses, pharmacists, genetic counselors and other health care professionals in related fields attend ASCO’s Annual Meeting. Educational and scientific sessions at the Meeting offer cutting-edge information on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer. About 30,000 medical professionals from the US and many other countries attended.
The annual Meeting was held on May 30 - June 3, 2008 at the McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
Exhibitor List The CCF and CCAN had reserved very prominent spaces this year see map HERE
Hover over space 3002 and 3004 and you will see our location. TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
CCF 11th Annual Carcinoid/NET's Conference
For patients, caretakers and medical professionals "Progress in Research and Treatment" (poster)
April 13, 2008
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
Guest Speakers: Herbert Chen, M.D., University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Madison, Wisconsin Andrew S. Kennedy, M.D.,Wake Radiology Oncology
Cary,NC;
Networking and survivor stories
To view and listen to video recordings CLICK HERE
To view pictures from this successful event CLICK HERE
ENETS (European
NeuroEndocrine Society) The 5th Annual ENETS conference was held on 6-8
March 2008 in Paris. The ENETS Executive Committee presented the following topics in their program
; Test TNM cases;
modeling MEN X; minimal requirements for work-up and diagnosis;
pitfalls in NET diagnosis and treatment; and, inherited tumors
This meeting included two abstract sessions, one for basic
science, the other for clinical research.
CCF
Exhibits at the ASCO Annual Meeting
43rd ASCO (the American Society for Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting was held on June 1-5, 2007 McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois
CCF was invited for the second time to exhibit at the
(ASCO) Annual Conference in Chicago, June 2-4, 2007. Following
one of CCF's missions,
"If you don't suspect it, you can't detect it," the A
-TEAM, consisting of patients, caretakers and patient advocates,
educated many of the 35,000 attending health care professionals
(HCP).
SLIDE SHOW: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mewarner/sets/72157600346475209/show/
PICTURE PAGE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mewarner/sets/72157600346475209/
On June 3-5, 2006 CCF exhibited at the ASCO Conference
in Atlanta, GA Educating the physicians from all over the world in
More than 1000 HCPs visited our booth in 2006
To view Slide show from the 2006 exhibit CLICK
HERE
To find out who is who click on each picture and you will get more
details
The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation presented Carcinoids:
The Slow Pace of Rapid Progress on April 15, 2007,
at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY for patients, family,
friends and medical professionals. The guest speaker was Irvin
M. Modlin., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.S from Yale University School
of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Most of the content of his presentation
was recently published and can be accessed by CLICKING
HERE. Additional medical journal publications by Dr. Modlin
are available in abstract form from PUB
MED - CLICK HERE
A NETWORKING/SUPPORT/AWARENESS interactive session was also held
to encourage patients and families to become a patient advocate
ENETS
(The European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society) is proud to announce
results from its 2007 conference: The 4th Annual ENETS Conference
was held in Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 March 2007. The
conference covered topics such as the application of the ENETS
Guidelines to clinical practice; rare hereditary diseases and
endocrine tumors; NET imaging and surgery; and new therapies
and clinical trials. A summary of this conference can be viewed
in their latest NEWS
LETTER.
Y-90 Radiomicrosphere Therapy Workshop will be presented by “Advances in Minimally Invasive Treatments” International Congress and Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The Program Director is carcinoid/NET specialist Seza A. Gulec, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University College of Medicine. 
April 11, 2010 -
CCF 13th Annual Carcinoid/NETs Conference 
May 3-5, 2009
ENETS' Board of Directors
With kind permission from CNETS we are proud to present