EFC Congress 2024
Scientific Programme
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ROOM ALFA : DIFFICULT CASES IN COLPOSCOPY
09:00 – 10:30 Pregnancy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Glandular pathology
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 VIN & VaIN
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Anal and multizonal disease
ROOM BETA : BASIC COLPOSCOPY COURSE
09:00 – 10:30 Colposcopic principles
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Colposcopic diagnossis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Colposcopic management
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Interactive sand hands-on session
Congress
From Thursday September 19 to Saturday September 21
09:00 – 09:15 Opening session
09:15 – 10:45 Working towards eliminating cervical cancer
Current knowledge on HPV natural history and screening: part I
- Current evidence for HPV natural history and latency
- Clinical implications of HPV latency
- The role of microbiome on HPV infection and SIL
- Triage of HPV-positive patients
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Working towards eliminating cervical cancer
Current knowledge on HPV natural history and screening: part II
- Do we need co-testing ?
- Is high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion risk-based management the future of cervical cancer screening?
- Screening for cervical cancer in older women
- Self-sampling in HPV-based screening programmes
- Self-testing of HPV in urine
12:45 – 14:30 Free time
14:30 – 16:00 HPV vaccination: moving towards cervical cancer eradication
- Status of HPV vaccination in Europe – results of EU4Joint Action PERCH
- Impact of vaccination on screening
- Impact of vaccination on colposcopy
- Vaccination after treatment of SIL?
- NOVEL study – preliminary results
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Communication with patients and social media
- New paradigm of social media
- How to inform patients and which information should we provide about HPV infection and vaccination
- A Patient voice
17:30 – 18:30 Session of best selected oral presentations nominated for U. Petry price for the junior scientists
- Abstract presentation N1
- Abstract presentation N2
- Abstract presentation N3
- Abstract presentation N4
- Abstract presentation N5
- Abstract presentation N6
08:30 – 09:00 Selected best oral presentations
- Abstract presentation N7
- Abstract presentation N8
- Abstract presentation N9
09:00 – 10:45 Optimal management of cervical intraepithelial lesions
- Management of persistent HPV and low-grade lesions
- Clinical management of CIN2 across countries
- Risk of persistency and progression of CIN2
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Risk stratifications of CIN 2 for clinical management
- Optimal treatment strategies of adenocarcinoma in situ
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Challenges in colposcopy
- Management of women with type 3 TZ
- Colposcopy of pregnant women
- Screening and management of immunocompromised women
- Prospects of eliminating cervical cancer in Ukraine
12:45 – 14:00 Free time
14:00 – 15:30 Ensuring standards and quality assurance in women in Europe: colposcopy standards
- Challenging colposcopy cases: applying EFC/ESGO European consensus statement on expert colposcopy
- Cervical cancer screening in Europe: quality assurance and organsiation of programmes in 2024
- Ambitions for quality assurance in Hungary
- Feasibility of collecting and comparing quality indicators on colposcopy – an update from the EFC Quality and standard group
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Ensuring the prevention of cervical cancer: reducing the risk for women post-treatment
- Reasons of recurrent and residual disease after cervical SIL treatment
- Risk of persistent HPV infection and cervical SIL after treatment
- Post-treatment follow-up of cervical SIL and adenocarcinoma in situ
- Follow up after VIN and VaIN treatment
17:30 – 18:00 Session of best selected oral presentations nominated for U. Petry price for the junior scientists
- Abstract presentation N10
- Abstract presentation N11
- Abstract presentation N12
08:30 – 09:00 Selected best oral presentations
- Abstract presentation N13
- Abstract presentation N14
- Abstract presentation N15
09:00 – 10:15 Cervical pre/cancer and reproductive outcomes
- Fertility sparing treatment in cervical cancer – selection of candidates and management ESGO/ESTRO/ESP Update 2023
- HPV infection and fertility
- Optimal decision making in management of SIL
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:45 Multidisciplinary team meetings in colposcopy
- How to organize an MDT in colposcopy clinic
- Multidisciplinary team meeting in colposcopy Case 1
- Multidisciplinary team meeting in colposcopy Case 2
- Multidisciplinary team meeting in colposcopy Case 3
- Multidisciplinary team meeting in colposcopy Case 4
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Report of recipient of the Emmanuel Diakomanolis EFC Colposcopy prizes 2022: Experience on quality assurance system in UK
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Report of recipient of the Emmanuel Diakomanolis EFC Colposcopy prizes 2022: Experience on training and education programme in colposcopy in Finland
12:45 – 13:15 Closing remarks & Awards Ceremony
Tickets
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10th European Federation For Colposcopy Congress
“Cervical cancer prevention and colposcopy”
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