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CTOS 10th Annual Meeting
November 11 - 13, 2004
2004 Program Chair – Robert Maki

Schedule: Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Thursday 11 November 2004

11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Registration
 

11:00am – 5:00 pm
Salon Printemps

Poster Set-Up

 

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
 

1:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Radiology Symposium

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Salon Automne
2nd Floor

Welcome Reception
 

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Salon Ete
2nd Floor

SARC Dinner
 



Friday 12 November 2004

6:30 am – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Registration
 

7:00 am – 8:00 am
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Continental Breakfast
 

7:00 am – 8:00 am
Salon Printemps
1st Floor

Poster Viewing

7:00 am – 8:00 am
Salon Hiver

Executive Committee Meeting

8:00 am – 9:15 am
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Special Topic: Patient Selection and Treatment Options for Primary Sarcoma and Metastases to Spine
Moderators: Dekutoski, Gokoslan, Okuno, Pedersen, Rhines, Yamada

               1

(342) IMAGE GUIDED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT) WITH NONINVASIVE IMMOBILIZATION FOR THE HIGH DOSE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY TUMORS OF THE SPINAL COLUMN
Y Yamada;   M Bilsky;   M Lovelock;   J Zatkcy;   Z Fuks
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States

     

9:15 am – 9:30 am
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Coffee Break
 

9:30 am – 10:30 am
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Surgery: Staging and Prognostication
Moderators: Conrad and Grimer

  1

(252) VALIDATION AND ADAPTATION OF A NOMOGRAM FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL OF EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA USING A THREE GRADE SYSTEM
L MARIANI1;   R MICELI1;   M KATTAN2;   M BRENNAN2;   M COLECCHIA1;   M FIORE1;   P CASALI1;   * A GRONCHI1
1ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LO STUDIO E LA CURA DEI TUMORI, MILAN, , Italy,   2MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER, NEW YORK, NY, United States

  2

(296) MULTICENTRIC EVALUATION OF THE FRENCH SURGICAL SYSTEM IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA (STS)
* E Stoeckle1;   * S Bonvalot2;   J Verhaeghe3;   F Lejeune5;   J Fraisse4;   J Coindre1;   * B Bui1
1Institut Bergonie, Bordeaux, , France,   2Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, , France,   3Centre Alexis Vautrin, Nacy, , France,   4Centre George Francois Leclerc, Dijon, , France,   5CHUL Lausanne, Lausanne, , Switzerland

  3

(294) DECISION MAKING IN ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY
* R Grimer
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, , United Kingdom

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Surgery: Local Control and Outcomes
Moderators: Grimer and Conrad

  1

(317) OUTCOME FOLLOWING PELVIC SARCOMA RESECTION RECONSTRUCTED WITH SADDLE PROSTHESIS
F Al Jassir1;   G Beadel2;   A Griffin2;   * R E Turcotte1;   * R S Bell2;   J S Wunder2;   M H Isler3
1McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,   2Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,   3Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  2

(288) ADDUCTOR COMPARTMENT SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS- DOES METHOD OF TREATMENT AFFECT OUTCOME?
A Pradhan1;   Y Cheung1;   * R Grimer2;   P Ferguson3;   A Griffin3;   S Carter2;   R Tillman2;   A Abudu2;   * J Wunder3;   * B Bell3
1UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS, United Kingdom,   2ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM, , United Kingdom,   3 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, TORONTO, ONTARIO, Canada

  3

(231) ENDOPROSTHETIC VS. “CONDYLE-SPARING” INTERCALARY ALLOGRAFTS FOR DISTAL FEMORAL OSTEOSARCOMA: A COMPARISON OF LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP
T B RAPP1;   M ZIMEL1;   * E U CONRAD III1
1UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, United States,   2LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS, United States

  4

(311) UNICOMPARTMENTAL OSTEOARTICULAR ALLOGRAFTS OF THE KNEE: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS AND COMPLICATIONS
M Ayerza;   L Muscolo;   L Aponte-Tinao;   E Abalo
Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  5

(332) FUNCTIONAL AND ONCOLOGIC OUTCOME AFTER COMBINED ALLOGRAFT AND TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY RECONSTRUCTION OF LARGE BONY PELVIC DEFECTS FOLLOWING TUMOUR RESECTION
G P Beadel;   A M Griffin;   C Ogilvie;   P C Ferguson;   J S Wunder;   * R S Bell
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Salon Ete
2nd Floor

Lunch
 

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Salon Hiver
2nd Floor

Board of Directors Meeting
 

     

1:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Osteosarcoma and Related Topics
Moderators: Helman and Meyers

  1

(261) POST CHEMOTHERAPY SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE IS AN INDICATOR OF CHEMOTHERAPY RESPONSE AND SURVIVAL IN ADULTS TREATED FOR LOCALISED OSTEOSARCOMA
J Bramer;   R Tillman;   A Abudu;   S Carter;   * R Grimer
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

  2

(280) PET IN OSTEOSARCOMA: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PERCENT NECROSIS AND RESPONSE AS SEEN BY PET
* V O Lewis;   H A Macapinlac;   A Raymond;   * P Lin;   * A Yasko;   H Choi;   * R Benjamin
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

  3

(345) PREDICTING OUTCOME IN OSTEOSARCOMA USING A GENOME-WIDE APPROACH
T Yan;   M Ghert;   N Gokgoz;   S Eskandarian;   W He;   R Parkes;   S B Bull;   * R S Bell;   * I L Andrulis;   * J S Wunder
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  4

(257) TREATMENT OF RELAPSED OSTEOSARCOMA AFTER CONTEMPORARY THERAPY: THE MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING EXPERIENCE
A CHOU;   P R MEROLA;   Y VYAS;   L WEXLER;   R GORLICK;   M LAQUAGLIA;   J HEALEY;   A HUVOS;   * P A MEYERS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER, NEW YORK, NY, United States

  5

(269) PRIMARY SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA OF BONE – AN ASSESSMENT OF OUTCOME
D Peake;   * R J Grimer
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, , United Kingdom

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Salon de Saisons Foyer & Salon Printemps

 Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Medical Oncology
Moderators: Patel and LeCesne

  1

(347) ACQUIRED RESISTANCE TO IMATINIB IN PROGRESSIVE GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS DUE TO MULTIPLE SYNCHRONOUS KINASE MUTATIONS IN DIFFERENT EXONS OF KIT
E Wardelmann2;   N Thomas2;   S Merkelbach-Bruse2;   T Pietsch5;   H Biehl4;   T Heinicke3;   K Pauls2;   * P Hohenberger1
1Section of Surgical Oncology Klinikum Mannheim University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, , Germany,   2Department of Pathology University of Bonn Medical Center Germany, Bonn, , Germany,   3Department of Internal Medicine University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, , Germany,   4Department of Nuclear Medicine Katharinenhospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, , Germany,   5Department of Neuropathology University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, , Germany

  2

(290) EARLY AND LATE RESISTANCE TO IMATINIB (IM) IN ADVANCED GASTRO-INTESTINAL STOMAL TUMORS (GIST) ARE PREDICTED BY DIFFERENT PROGNOSTIC FACTORS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EORTC-ISG-AGITG RANDOMIZED TRIAL
* M Van Glabbeke1;   * J Verweij2;   * P G Casali3;   * J Zalcberg4;   * A Le Cesne5;   * P Reichardt6;   * J Blay7;   M Schlemmer8;   * A T van Oosterom9;   * P Hogendoorn10;   K Stoitchkov1;   * I R Judson11
1EORTC Data Center, Brussels, , Belgium,   2Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, , Netherlands,   3Istituto Tumori, Milano, , Italy,   4Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, , Australia,   5Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, , France,   6Robert Roessle Klinik, Berlin, , Germany,   7Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, , France,   8Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, , Germany,   9University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, , Belgium,   10University Medical Center, Leiden, , Netherlands,   11Royal Marsden Hospital, London, , United Kingdom

  3

(263) A COMPARISON OF PATTERNS OF TUMOR RESPONSE TO MOLECULAR-TARGETED THERAPY IN GIST AND CHORDOMA
* P Casali;   S Stacchiotti;   E Fumagalli;   A Messina;   C Spreafico;   F Crippa;   R Bertulli;   F Grosso;   P Coco;   M Colecchia;   C Piovesan;   R Sanfilippo;   T Negri;   E Tamborini;   A Gronchi
Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, , Italy

  4

(227) DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR (GIST) RECEIVING GLEEVEC (IMATINIB): THE EFFECT OF DRUG DOSAGE
P Barckett;   J Call;   P D Josephy;   * N J Scherzer;   R Singleton
The Life Raft Group, Wayne, NJ, United States

  5

(250) DOPAMINE MAY DECREASE NEPHROTOXICITY IN PATIENTS RECEIVING HIGH-DOSE IFOSFAMIDE
* L J Blakely;   * S R Patel;   * P Thall;   X Wang;   T A Simmons;   J L Beach;   T L Armen;   * L L Chen;   * M A Burgess;   * J C Trent;   * R S Benjamin
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Salon de Saisons

Advocacy Groups
Moderator: Maki

1 Sarcoma Foundation of America , Jody Cummings
2 Sarcoma Alliance , David Murphy
3 Liferaft Group , Norman Scherzer

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Salon de Saisons

Members Business Meeting
Moderator: Benjamin

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Atrium
1st Floor

Reception

8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Pierre de Coubertin
1st Floor

Dinner 


Saturday 13 November 2004

6:30 am – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Registration
 

7:00 am – 8:00 am
Salon de Saisons Foyer
1st Floor

Continental Breakfast
 

7:00 am – 8:00 am
Salon Printemps
1st Floor

Poster Viewing
 

8:00 am – 9:00 am
Salon de Saisons
1st Floor

Pathology
Moderators: Antonescu and Rosenberg

  1

(344) AMPLIFICATION AND OVEREXPRESSION OF COPS3 IN OSTEOSARCOMA: RELATIONSHIP TO P53 MUTATION AND PATIENT OUTCOME
T Yan;   N Gokgoz;   S Eskandarian;   * R Bell;   * I Andrulis;   * J Wunder
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  2

(259) CD56 EXPRESSION IN BONE AND OSTEOBLASTIC NEOPLASIA: A NOVEL OSTEOBLAST MARKER
D HUGHES;   R DEB;   D C MANGHAM;   V SUMATHI;   * R GRIMER
ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM, , United Kingdom

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD WINNER

  3

(277) E2F3 OVEREXPRESSION IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA DEVELOPMENT
M Scurr1;   A Feber1;   J Shipley1;   A Fletcher1;   N Dennis1;   O Al-Muderis2;   * C Fisher2;   * I Judson2;   C Cooper1
1Institute of Cancer Research, London, , United Kingdom,   2Royal Marsden Hospital, London, , United Kingdom

  4

(329) P450 3A AS A MEDIATOR OF CHEMOTHERAPY RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS WITH SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS.
* D G Thomas;   T J Giordano;   M Zalupski;   * S Biermann;   * L H Baker
University of Michigan Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Salon de Saisons

Radiation Oncology
Moderators: O'Sullivan and Robinson

  1

(286) FIVE YEAR RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED PHASE III TRIAL OF PRE-OPERATIVE VS POST-OPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY IN EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
* B O'Sullivan;   * A Davis;   * R Turcotte;   R Bell;   * J Wunder;   C Catton;   * R Kandel;   A Hammond;   C Freeman;   M Isler;   * K Goddard;   P Chabot;   D Tu;   J Pater
Canadian Sarcoma Group and National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  2

(234) MORTALITY AFTER APPARENT CURE OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA USING COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY
* M T Ballo;   G K Zagars;   S S Strom;   * P W Pisters;   * S R Patel;   * B W Feig;   * J N Cormier;   K K Hunt;   * R E Pollock;   * R S Benjamin
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

  3

(308) INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT) FOR PRIMARY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA OF THE EXTREMITY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
K M Alektiar;   L Hong;   M F Brennan;   S Singer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States

  4

(327) POST-IRRADIATION RECOVERY OF GROWTH PLATE FUNCTION IS DRIVEN BY EXPANSIONS OF REGENERATIVE CLONES
J A Horton;   B S Margulies;   J A Strauss;   J A Spadaro;   * T A Damron
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States

10:00am – 10:15 am
Salon de Saisons Foyer & Salon Printemps

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
 

10:15 am – 11:15 am
Salon de Saisons

Nina Axelrad Lecture: Cytogenetic Insights in Mesenchymal Tumors
J. Fletcher

11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Salon de Saisons

Biology Part I: Basic Science Models and Molecular Profiles
Moderators: Wunder and Ladanyi

  1

(281) HIGH EXPRESSION OF EZRIN, A DETERMINANT OF METASTATIC BEHAVIOR, IN EWING'S SARCOMA (ES)
K Krishnan1;   G Khanna1;   S Hewitt1;   * C Khanna1;   * L Helman1
1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States,   2NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, BETHESDA, MARYLAND, United States,   3UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, United States

  2

(339) CONDITIONAL KNOCKOUT OF P53 IN MESENCHYMAL CELLS OF MICE RESULTS IN OSTEOSARCOMAS
* P P Lin;   F Jin;   G Lozano
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

  3

(351) TRANSFORMATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS BY THE RETROVIRUS-MEDIATED GENE TRANSFER
Y Shima1;   T Okamoto1;   T Ishibe1;   K Nishijo1;   T Aoyama2;   T Nakayama1;   T Nakamura1;   J Toguchida2
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Kyoto University, Kyoto, , Japan,   2Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences Kyoto University, Kyoto, , Japan

  4

(242) MOLECULAR PROFILING OF GIANT CELL TUMOURS
D M THOMAS;   T TALARICO;   P CHOONG;   J SLAVIN;   S SCHLICHT;   I DICKINSON;   M TRIVETT;   P SIMMONS;   G ATKINS;   D FINDLAY
PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, Australia

  5

(313) MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF SPORADIC AND NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1 (NF1)-ASSOCIATED MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMORS
M Watson;   A Perry;   * D H Gutmann
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States

  6

(271) GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES RELATE TO GENE FUSION TYPE AND METASTASIS IN SYNOVIAL SARCOMA
J Fernebro1;   P Francis1;   P Edén2;   I Panagopoulos3;   F Mertens3;   M Åkerman4;   N Mandahl3;   M Nilbert1
1Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, , Sweden,   2Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, , Sweden,   3Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University Hospital, , Sweden,   4Department of Pathology, Lund University Hospital, , Sweden

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Salon Ete
2nd Floor

 

Lunch
 

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Salon de Saisons

Biology Part II: Translation: Bench to Clinic
Moderators: Wunder and Ladanyi

  1

(256) 17-AAG INHIBITS SYNOVIAL SARCOMA CELL GROWTH IN VITRO
J Terry;   S Liu;   J Lubieniecka;   * T O Nielsen
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  2

(350) FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR SIGNALS AS POTENTIAL MOLECULAR TARGETS IN SYNOVIAL SARCOMA
T Ishibe1;   T Nakayama1;   T Okamoto1;   T Aoyama2;   K Nishijo1;   S Nagayama3;   T Nakamura1;   J Toguchida2
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Kyoto University, Kyoto, , Japan,   2Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences Kyoto University, Kyoto, , Japan,   3Department of Surgery Kyoto University, Kyoto, , Japan

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD WINNER

  3

(338) HEDGEHOG SIGNALING REGULATES PROLIFERATION IN CHONDROSARCOMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NOVEL THERAPY
D Tiet1;   S Hopyan2;   P Nadesan1;   B A Alman1;   * J S Wunder2
1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, , Canada,   2University Musculoskeletal Oncology Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, , Canada

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Salon de Saisons Foyer & Salon Printemps

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
 

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Salon de Saisons

Special Topic: Molecular Analysis of Sarcomas
Discussants: Ladanyi, Maki, Labelle, Squire

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Salon de Saisons

1. Sarcomas with Aberrant Transcription Factors-Biology and Expression Profiling
Speaker: Ladanyi

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Salon de Saisons

2. Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma: Two Views of the Same Tumor
Speaker: Maki: Clinical Aspects

 

(302) CASE REPORT: EXTRASKELETAL MYXOID CHONDROSARCOMA (EMC)
* R G Maki
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States

     

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Salon de Saisons

3. Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: two views of the same tumor
Speaker: Labelle: Functional analysis of the EWS/NOR1 fusion protein expressed in extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcomas

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Salon de Saisons

4. Molecular cytogenetics of osteosarcoma
Speaker: Zielenska

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm
Salon de Saisons

Collaborative Studies Discussion
Moderator: Maki

5:45 pm – 6:00 pmSalon de Saisons

Closing Remarks
Moderator: Maki