Scientific Program

The scientific program for the 2023 ESVONC congress in Alicante is ready. 

There will be no live streaming this year.  

The Nurses program on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th May is visible under the separate tab in the top menu.

 

VETERINARIANS' PROGRAM

The Meliá Alicante Hotel will be the venue for the 2023 ESVONC Congress.

 

Wednesday 24th May - Residents' Workshop

Residents' Workshop on Scientific Writing
15.00-15.45 Study design part 1 - kindly sponsored by Craig Clifford
15.45-16.30 Study design part 2 - kindly sponsored by Craig Clifford
16.30-17.00 COFFEE BREAK  
17.00-17.45 Scientific writing: Reasons for Manuscript Rejections Dan Chan
17.45-18.15 Scientific writing: Structuring a Scientific Paper Dan Chan

 

Thursday 25th May - Main program

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION OPENS  
08.45-09.00 Welcome ESVONC to Alicante! P. Clemente & J. Borrego
Themed Session: Nutrition & Cancer
09.00-09.45 Recent developments in nutritional modulation of neoplastic processes Dan Chan
09.45-10.30 Scope for clinical applications of nutritional interventions for the oncological patient Dan Chan
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by        
11.00-11.45 The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Cancer Carolina Cortes
11.45-12.30 Modulating the Gut Microbiome: Researching Nutritional Approaches Carolina Cortes
12.30 - 13.00 PANEL DISCUSSION  
13.00-14.30 Lunch & Poster Session  
14.30-15.00

Nutritional Support for Pets with Cancer: a New Option

SPONSORED TALK by     

Becky Mullis
Resident Abstracts
15.00-15.15 Safety and tolerability assessment of a combined protocol including lomustine, vincristine and prednisolone in cats with lymphoma  Sergio Vázquez Martínez
15.15-15.30 Feline high-grade alimentary lymphomas treated with COP or CHOP-based chemotherapy: a multicentric retrospective study of 57 cases Grégoire Bernardo Marques 
15.30-15.45 A multi-institutional comparative study of (L)COP/CHOP based chemotherapy with and without abdominal radiotherapy for feline gastrointestinal high grade lymphoma in 26 cats Andrea Rey
15.45-16.00 First in dog: clinical remissions in dogs with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after radioimmunotherapy (RIT) using a murine anti-canine-CD22 monoclonal antibody Catherine Ibisch
16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by       
General Abstracts
16.30-16.45 Association of allergic skin disease with the development of canine mast cell tumours (MCT): is a pruritic dog more prone to develop severe MCT? Marianne Lappalainen
16.45-17.00 Retrospective analysis investigating the independence of histological and immunohistochemical prognostic factors from 199 canine mast cell tumours with follow up from their primary care practices Katherine Boyd
17.00-17.15 Immunohistochemistry expression of immune checkpoint molecules PD-L1 and CTLA-4 in canine mast cell tumors Mariana Ribeiro 
17.15-17.30 Post-FDA approval analysis of Stelfonta® (tigilanol tiglate) use by veterinary oncologists for canine mast cell tumors Pamela Jones
17.30-18.00

ESVONC RESEARCH FUND PRESENTATION

Presentation of the Fund and Approved Projects

ESVONC CRF Committee
19.00-21.00

Welcome Reception in Alicante!

venue: Museo The Ocean Race

kindly sponsored by

 

 

 

Friday 26th May - Main Program

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION OPENS  
Themed Session: Things I used to do but stopped and things I didn't do but started!
09.00-09.20 Lymph node mapping Vincent Wavreille
09.20-09.40 Caudal maxillectomy Nick Bacon
09.40-10.00 Insulinomas Vincent Wavreille
10.00-10.30 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by      
10.30-10.50 Bilateral adrenalectomies Nick Bacon
10.50-11.10 Liver tumours Vincent Wavreille
11.10-11.30 Amputation Nick Bacon
11.30-12.15 PANEL DISCUSSION  
12.15-14.30 Lunch  
     
Resident Abstracts
14.30-14.45 Comparison of lymphoscintigraphy and near-infrared fluorescence lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in dogs with integumentary mast cell tumors Lavinia Elena Chiti
14.45-15.00 Near-infrared lymphography versus CT-Lymphography for primary lymph node detection in dogs with ASAC – a case series Mirja Nolff
15.00-15.15 Weishaar’s classification system for nodal metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes: update on clinical outcome in 94 dogs with mast cell tumor Elisa Maria Gariboldi
15.15-15.30 Clinical presentation and prognostic factors in 32 dogs with subcutaneous mast cell tumors treated with curative intent surgery Xavier Escoda Llorens
15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by      
16.00-16.30

Elevating Oncology Diagnosis with the Virtual Experience

SPONSORED TALK by     

Lucia Carranza
General Abstracts
16.30-16.45 Grading radiation toxicity after chemoradiotherapy of canine urinary tract carcinomas with VRTOG_v2.0  Carlotta Ahrens
16.45-17.00 Adjuvant dose-intensified doxorubicin protocol for splenic canine hemangiosarcoma: a pilot study Miguel Garcia de la Virgen
17.00-17.15 Cytokines might tell us something - IL-12/IL-23p40 and IL-12 in Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers with cancer and autoimmune disease  Malin Nilsson 
17.15-17.30 Plasma H3.1 nucleosome concentrations in dogs with various carcinomas Heather Wilson-Robles
18.00-... Evening on your own!  

 

Saturday 27th May - Main Program

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION OPENS  
Themed Session: Liquid biopsy
09.00-09.45 Liquid Biopsies in Diagnostic Pathology: A Brief History and Current and Future Applications Jaime Modiano
09.45-10.30 Liquid biopsy in (human) oncology: clinical applications Aitor Azkarate
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by      
11.00-11.45 A Liquid Biopsy Platform for Novel Exosome-Based Cancer Diagnostics and Its Applications in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Jaime Modiano
11.45-12.30 Defining the Cancer Permissive Environment and Its Applications in Early Detection, Risk Assessment, and Strategic Prevention of Cancer Jaime Modiano
12.30-13.00 PANEL DISCUSSION  
13.00-14.30 Lunch  
     
14.00-15.00 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) ESVONC members
15.00-15.30

The Use of OncoK9 Liquid Biopsy in Specialty Practice

SPONSORED TALK by      

Andy Flory
Resident Abstracts
15.30-15.45 Evaluation of a novel liquid biopsy-based assay for cancer detection and monitoring in dogs  Suzanne Busser 
15.45-16.00 Clinico-genomics analysis of 94 canine mammary tumors as an opportunity for targeted therapy Lucas Rodrigues
16.00-16.15 Update World Meeting Tokyo 2024 Tetsuya Kobayashi
16.15-16.45 COFFEE BREAK – kindly sponsored by      
16.45-17.15

It all started over a cup of coffee (the VCS experience)

Sandi Strother (VCS Director)
General Abstracts
17.15-17.30 Proteomic profiling of feline fibrosarcoma and its adjacent peritumoral tissue  Enni Markkanen
17.30-17.45 Molecular characterization of canine FSA using spatially defined transcriptomics and proteomics  Daniel Fuchs
17.45-18.00 Fibroblast activation protein - a promising target for canine, feline and human soft tissue sarcoma Patricia Beer
20.00-...

ESVONC's GALA DINNER

venue: Castillo de Santa Bárbara

kindly sponsored by