DAY 1 | 18th December 2021 | Saturday
Time Session Type Speaker Session Moderator Title of Presentation
  Welcome Address by Hon. President of The Sri Lanka Collage of Oncologists
11:00 - 11:30 Session 1 - Breast Cancer - Metastatic 
11:00 - 11:10 Presentation Dr. Cosphiadi Irawan Dr. Jayantha Balawardane Trastuzumab plus endocrine therapy or chemotherapy as first - line treatment for metastatic breast cancer with hormone receptor - positive and HER2 - positive: The sysucc - 002 randomized clinical trial.
11:10 - 11:20 Presentation Dr. Binghe Xu Dalpiciclib versus placebo plus fulvestrant in HR+/HER2 - advanced breast cancer that relapsed or progressed on previous endocrine therapy (DAWNA - 1): A multicenter, randomized, phase 3 study.
11:20 - 11:30 Presentation Ms. Anne L Loeser Treatment - related side effects and views about dosage assessment to sustain quality of life: Results of an advocate - led survey of patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC).
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11:30 - 12:30 Session 2 - Breast Cancer - Local/Regional/Adjuvant 
11:30 - 11:40 Presentation Dr. Tiromi Menaka Rupasinghe Dr. Niroshan Atulugama OlympiA: A phase 3, multicenter, randomized, placebo - controlled trial of adjuvant olaparib after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with germline BRCA1/2 mutations and high - risk HER2 - negative early breast cancer.
11:40 - 11:50 Presentation Dr. Josephine Lopes Cardozo Outcome of patients with an ultralow risk 70 - gene signature in the MINDACT trial.
11:50 - 12:00 Presentation Dr. Ahamed Iqbal  Breast Cancer Index (BCI) and Prediction of Benefit from Extended Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) Therapy (tx) in HR+ Breast Cancer: NRG Oncology/NSABP B - 42. 
12:00 - 12:10 Presentation Dr. Vaishnavi  De - escalated neoadjuvant pertuzumab+trastuzumab with or without paclitaxel weekly in HR - /HER2+ early breast cancer: ADAPT - HR - /HER2+ biomarker and survival results.
12:10 - 12:30 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session
12:30 - 12:50 Exhibition Tour Break
12:50 - 13:10 Session 3 - Central Nervous System Tumors 
12:50 - 13:00 Presentation Dr. Buddhini Karunaratne  Dr. Janaka Piyasiri Long - term results of the GEINO 140 TRIAL: randomizing patients to stop or to continue temozolomide until 12 cycles.
13:00 - 13:10 Presentation Dr. Ravindi Miriam  Alliance A071601: Phase II trial of BRAF/MEK inhibition in newly diagnosed papillary craniopharyngiomas.
13:10 - 14:20 Session 4 - Heamatology 
13:10 - 13:20 Presentation Dr. Nilupulee Gunarathna Dr. Yasintha Ratnayake Safety and efficacy of a novel anti - CD20/CD19 bi - specific CAR T - cell therapy (C - CAR039) in relapsed or refractory (r/r) B - cell non - Hodgkin lymphoma (B - NHL)
13:20 - 13:30 Presentation Dr. Pradeep Siriwardana  Phase 2 results of the ZUMA - 3 study evaluating KTE - X19, an anti - CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T - cell therapy, in adult patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory
B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B - ALL).
13:30 - 13:40 Presentation Dr. P. W. Devinda C. Jayathilake  CALGB 50801 (Alliance): PET adapted therapy in bulky stage I/II classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL)
13:40 - 13:50 Presentation Dr. Buddhika Somawardana Upfront autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) versus carfilzomib - cyclophosphamide - dexamethasone (KCd) consolidation with K maintenance in transplant -
eligible, newly diagnosed (NDTE) multiple myeloma(MM).
13:50 - 14:00 Presentation Dr. K. A. I. Nirmali Karasinghearachchi  MyPathway HER2 basket study: Pertuzumab (P) + trastuzumab (H) treatment of a large, tissue - agnostic cohort of patients with HER2 - positive advanced solid tumors
14:00 - 14:20 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session
14:20 - 15:20 Session 5 - Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Cancer 
14:20 - 14:30 Presentation Dr. Wulyo Rajabto Dr. Sanjeeva Gunasekara Oral maintenance capecitabine versus active monitoring for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who are stable or responding after 16 weeks of first - line
treatment: Results from the randomized FOCUS4 - N trial.
14:30 - 14:40 Presentation Dr. Chinthaka Appuhamy Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy of oxaliplatin plus fluorouracil versus sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A biomolecular exploratory,
randomized, phase 3 trial (The FOHAIC - 1 study).
14:40 - 14:50 Presentation Dr. Kavitha Indranath  Final overall survival for the phase 3 KN177 study: Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy in microsatellite instability - high/mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.
14:50 - 15:00 Presentation Dr. Chamila Priyadarshani Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T - DXd; DS - 8201) in patients (pts) with HER2 - expressing metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC): Final results from a phase 2, multicenter, open - label study (DESTINY - CRC01).
15:00 - 15:20 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session
Quick Quiz Question
15:20 - 15:40 Exhibition Tour Break
15:40 - 16:00 Session 6 - Gyneacologic Cancer 
15:40 - 15:50 Presentation Dr. Hafizah Zaharah Dr. Lakshan Abeynayake Optimal treatment duration of bevacizumab (BEV) combined with carboplatin and paclitaxel in patients (pts) with primary epithelial ovarian (EOC), fallopian tube (FTC) or peritoneal cancer (PPC): A multicenter open - label randomized 2 - arm phase 3 ENGOT/GCIG trial of the AGO Study Group, GINECO, and NSGO (AGO - OVAR 17/BOOST, GINECO OV118, ENGOT Ov - 15, NCT01462890).
15:50 - 16:00 Presentation Dr. Linda R. Mileshkin Adjuvant chemotherapy following chemoradiation as primary treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer compared to chemoradiation
alone: The randomized phase 3 OUTBACK Trial (ANZGOG 0902, RTOG 1174, NRG 0274).
16:00 - 17:00 Session 7 - Genitourinary Cancer - Prostate, Testicular and Penile (Dr. N.Jeyakumaran)
16:00 - 16:10 Presentation Dr. Nisha Shariff Dr. N. Jeyakumaran Final analysis of KEYNOTE - 426: Pembrolizumab plus axitinib versus sunitinib as first - line therapy for advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).
16:10 - 16:20 Presentation Dr. Jaliya Jayasekara A phase 3 trial with a 2x2 factorial design of abiraterone acetate plus prednisone and/or local radiotherapy in men with de novo metastatic castration - sensitive
prostate cancer (mCSPC): First results of PEACE - 1.
16:20 - 16:30 Presentation Dr. Nuradh Joseph Phase 3 study of lutetium - 177 - PSMA - 617 in patients within metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer(VISION).
16:30 - 16:40 Presentation Dr. Toni K. Choueiri Pembrolizumab versus placebo as post nephrectomy adjuvant therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma: Randomized, double - blind, phase 3 KEYNOTE - 564 study.
16:40 - 17:00 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session
 
DAY 2 | 19th December 2021 | Sunday
Time Session Type Speaker Session Moderator Title of Presentation
  Opening Remarks by Secretary of The Sri Lanka Collage of Oncologists
11:00 - 11:20 Session 8 – Head and Neck 
11:00 - 11:10 Presentation Dr. Andhika Dr. Kanthi Perera Metronomic capecitabine as adjuvant therapy in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A phase 3, multicenter, randomized controlled trial.
11:10 - 11:20 Presentation Dr. Tan Chih Kiang JUPITER - 02: Randomized,double - blind, phase 3 study of toripalimab or placebo plus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first - line treatment for recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
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11:20 - 11:40 Session 9 – Melanoma/ Sarcoma 
11:20 - 11:30 Presentation Dr. Yasiru Malinda Dr. N. Yoganathan CheckMate 067: 6.5 - year outcomes in patients (pts) with advanced melanoma.
11:30 - 11:40 Presentation Dr. Dimosthenis Andreou Treatment delays are associated with an unfavorable outcome in patients with localized Ewing sarcoma: A retrospective analysis of data from the GPOH Euro - E.W.I.N.G.99 trial.
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11:40 - 12:00 Exhibition Tour Break
12:00 - 13:00 Session 10 – Lung Cancer 
12:00 - 12:10 Presentation Dr. Dhammike Rasnayake Dr. Praveen Tharanga Video - assisted thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy in patients with early - stage lung cancer: One - year results from a randomized controlled trial (VIOLET).
12:10 - 12:20 Presentation Dr. Chrishanthi Rajasooriyar Phase 3 comparison of high - dose once - daily (QD) thoracic radiotherapy (TRT) with standard twice - daily (BID) TRT in limited stage small cell lung cancer (LSCLC):
CALGB 30610 (Alliance)/RTOG 0538.
12:20 - 12:30 Presentation Dr. Dean A. Fennell A randomized phase II trial of oral vinorelbine as second - line therapy for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
12:30 - 12:40 Presentation Dr. David Lee First - line nivolumab (NIVO) plus ipilimumab (IPI) plus two cycles of chemotherapy (chemo) versus chemo alone (4 cycles) in patients with advanced non - small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC): Two - year update from CheckMat9LA.
12:40 - 12:50 Presentation Dr. Tirusha Nawarathne Pooled analyses of immune - related adverse events (irAEs) and efficacy from the phase 3 trials IMpower130, IMpower132, and IMpower150.
12:50 - 13:10 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session
13:10 -   14:00 Session 11 – Pediatric Oncology 
13:10 - 13:20 Presentation Dr. Sanjeeva Gunasekara Dr. Sachini Rasnayakes Updated outcomes for patients with completely resected pulmonary recurrent osteosarcoma: A report from the Children’s Oncology Group.
13:20 - 13:30 Presentation Dr. Prabani S.Maddumaarachchi Prognostic Impact of CNS - 2 status in T - ALL: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group.
13:30 - 13:40 Presentation Dr. P. H. Sahan Piya Udara  Donor - derived CD7 CAR T cells for T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
13:40 - 14:00 Panel Discussion & Q&A Session 
14:00 - 14:10 Session 12 – Other 
14:00 - 14:10 Presentation Dr. Noorwati Sutandyo Dr. A. J. Hilmi The comparative effectiveness of direct oral anti - coagulants and low molecular weight heparins for prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism in cancer: The CANVAS pragmatic randomized trial.
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14:10 onwards Award Declaration & Valedictory (Dr. Sachini Rasnayake)



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