Preparing For This Year's SGO Annual Meeting

I will be attending this year's SGO Annual Meeting virtually. It is being held in San Diego, March 15-March 18, 2024. On Friday, March 15th the 2024 Patient and Advocate Education Forum will also be held, in San Diego. The Forum is sponsored by the Foundation for Women's Cancer. I attended last year's forum and it was informative and allowed time to network with other patients , advocates and caregivers.

 

 

I received the link to the meeting app today so I started making my schedule and looking at sessions I'm interested in listening to. I will be posting on X using the #gyncsm from the sessions that occur in the main hall (F) as they occur live. Other segments of the meeting will be available for me to look at online after they are held and I will catch up on those after the meeting. 

I am happy to see many sessions include patient advocates including my friend Susan Leighton, presenting on Effectiveness of “Survivors Teaching Students®”: A patient-centered experiential educational model of ovarian cancer for rising healthcare professionals.  Thanks SGO and FWC!

I am also pleased to share that an abstract that Annie Ellis, Adrienne Moore, Linda Ryan and I submitted will be presented during the poster session on Monday, March 18th (Hall GH). I'll share more about that poster titled

Do it!': Gynecologic cancer clinical trial participants' advice to others and perspectives

on the day it is presented.

Here are some of the sessions I look forward to listening to:

Saturday

Scientific Plenary I: News We Can All Use 

• Efficacy and safety of trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-expressing solid tumors: biomarker and subgroup analyses from the cervical, endometrial, and ovarian cancer cohorts of the DESTINY-PanTumor02 study

 

Scientific Plenary II: Moving the Needle Together  

• Patient-Reported Outcome Results from Phase III MIRASOL Trial of mirvetuximab soravtansine vs. Investigator’s Choice of Chemotherapy in FRα Positive Platinum-resistant Ovarian Cancer 
• Efficacy and safety of alpelisib plus olaparib versus chemotherapy among patients with platinum-resistant or refractory high-grade serous ovarian cancer without BRCA mutation: Primary analysis of the EPIK-O trial 
•  A phase II/III study of cediranib and olaparib combination compared to cediranib or olaparib alone or standard of care chemotherapy, in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (NRG-GY005)

Sunday

Presidential Invited Speaker: Erin Diehl: "F" Words at Work Supported by the Wellness Committee and N.E.D. 

Focused Plenary IV: CtDNA: Molecular Mirrors & Markers 

• The Prognostic Value of Circulating Minimal Residual Disease in First-Line Treatment of Ovarian Cancer 
• Utility of ctDNA as an early predictive biomarker of response to radiation in gynecologic malignancies 
• Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease Using Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients Treated Long-Term with PARP Inhibitors for Ovarian Cancer 

Scientific Plenary IV: Late Breaking Abstract Session 1

• Clinical activity of tazemetostat, an EZH2 inhibitor, among patients with advanced endometrioid endometrial cancer and ovarian clear cell carcinoma with and without ARID1A mutations (NRG-GY014)

Monday 

Doctor as a Patient: Michael M. Frumovitz, MD 

Tribute to Dr. Brewster – Stephanie Blank, MD, Amanda Nickles Fader, MD, S. Diane Yamada, MD, and Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD

Presidential Address: Angeles Alvarez-Secord, MD

 

Scientific Plenary V: Late Breaking Abstract Session 2 - The Turning Point Don't Be Left Out

 

 

Additional sessions I'll view online include those addressing disparities, ADCs( antibody drug conjugates), and clinical trial design. 

 

Now I just have to remember the three hour time difference so I don't miss any live sessions.

For those attending in person, please us #gyncsm in your posts on X so I can hear what you find valuable.  "See" you all next weekend.

Dee

Every Day is a Blessing!