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Program

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in Montreal, QC, Canada and will not live-stream content for virtual participation. The meeting content will be recorded and made available as an on-demand program after the conference. Please see the registration page for details

All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise. Program in progress.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 

Wednesday, December 10

REGISTRATION

4-8 p.m.

WELCOME AND OPENING Keynote

7-8:30 p.m.

  • 7 p.m. | Welcome 
    Andrea Cercek, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • 7:10 p.m. | Fireside Chat
    Tomi Akinyemiju, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
  • 7:45 p.m. | Fireside Chat
    Leonardo Trasande, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York
  • Panelists:
    Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland
    Timothy R. Rebbeck, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts  

Opening Reception 

8:30- 10 p.m.

Thursday, December 11

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

7:30-8:30 a.m. 

Plenary Session 1: Epidemiology of Early-Onset Cancer 

8:30-10:15 a.m. 

Session Chairs: Timothy R. Rebbeck, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts  

  • 8:35 a.m. | Carlo LaVecchia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy 

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Break 

10:15-10:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: Leading Hypotheses – Learning from Commonalities Across Diseases 

10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

Session Chairs: Andrea Cercek, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

  • 11:35 a.m. | Andrea Cercek

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Lunch on Own/Free Time 

12:30-2:30 p.m. 

Plenary Session 3: Global Disparities in Early Onset Cancer 

2:30-4:15 p.m. 

Session Chair: Tomi Akinyemiju, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina

  • 2:35 p.m. | Caitlin Murphy, University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
  • 2:55 p.m. | Folasade P. May, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Poster Session A / Reception    

4:30-6:30 p.m. 

Evening off / Dinner on own 

6:30 p.m.

Friday, December 12

Continental Breakfast 

7:30-8:30 a.m. 

Plenary Session 4: Mechanisms of Early Onset Carcinogenesis – Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome 

8:30-10:15 a.m. 

Session Chair: Yin Cao, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

  • 8:50 a.m. | Yin Cao

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Break

10:15-10:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 5: Mechanisms of Early Onset Carcinogenesis – Exogenous Factors 

10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

Session Chair: Riki (Ulrike) Peters, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington

  • 10:50 a.m. | Riki (Ulrike) Peters
  • 11:20 a.m. | Mingyang Song, Harvard School of Public Health, Brookline, Massachusetts

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Lunch on Own/Free Time 

12:30-2:30 p.m. 

Plenary Session 6: Mechanisms of Early Onset Carcinogenesis – Endogenous Mechanisms 

2:30-4:15 p.m. 

Session Chair: Joachim Weischenfeldt, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 

  • 2:35 p.m. | Joachim Weischenfeldt 
  • 3:05 p.m. | Karuna Ganesh, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Poster Session B / Reception   

4:30-6:30 p.m. 

Evening off / Dinner on own 

6:30 p.m. 

Saturday, December 13

Continental Breakfast 

7-8 a.m. 

Special Session: Early Onset Cancer Opportunities at NCI 

7:15-8:15 a.m. 

Organizer: LeeAnn Bailey (NCI)

Plenary Session 7: Early Detection and Screening 

8:30-10:15 a.m.

Session Chair: Luis Diaz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

  • 8:35 a.m. | Luis Diaz
  • 9:15 a.m. | Richard P. Woychik, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, North Carolina

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Break 

10:15-10:45 a.m.  

Plenary Session 8: Opportunities for Interception 

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 

Session Chair: Elizabeth Jaffee, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland

  • 10:50 a.m. | Andrew T. Chan, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 11:05 a.m. | Elizabeth Jaffee 
  • 11:20 a.m. | Zsofia K. Stadler, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Short talk selected from proffered abstracts

Panel Discussion: Future Directions 

12:15-1:15 p.m. 

Closing Remarks 

1:15-1:30 p.m.

Departure 

1:30 p.m.