Authors: H Huland R Hautmann
Publish Date: 2004/09/01
Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 117-117
Abstract
The 8th HeinrichWarnerFoundationSymposium with the topic “Renal cell carcinoma progress in basic research diagnosis surgical and medical therapy” was held in Hamburg in October 2003 The board of the HeinrichWarnerFoundation had the great pleasure to bring together 70 experts urologists pathologists oncologists researchers in basic science on this occasion Abstracts of the outstanding presentation of this meeting are given in this supplement of “Der Urologe”The meeting was opened with an excellent presentation on “Molecular pathology of renal cell carcinoma” by Stephan Störkel We discussed prognostic factors in early and late changes in clear cell carcinoma following the presentations of Börje Ljungberg and Holger MochThere was a long discussion on the surgical aspects of renal cell carcinoma with presentations by Michael AS Jewett David A Swanson Tony Finelli and Horst Zincke The topic “Therapeutic approaches in metastatic renal cell carcinoma” concentrated on immunotherapy with excellent presentations by Michael R Shurin James H Finke Dolores Schendel Robert J Motzer Seppo Pyrrhönen Julie E Ellerhorst Edith Huland and Robert A FiglinWalter M Stadler Peter Mulders and Dieter Marmé discussed chemotherapeutic aspects of therapy as well as antibodybased immunotherapy and protein kinase inhibitors The HeinrichWarner Prize of 10000 Euro was given to the group from Marburg especially to Dr Knobloch
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