UA
19 september 2025
LVIV
ONCOLOGICAL
FORUM - 2025
SECTIONS OF THE FORUM
Scientific Organizers
  • Lviv Regional Clinical Oncology Treatment and Diagnostic Center, Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise
  • Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
  • Department of Healthcare of the Lviv Regional Military Administration
  • Lviv Regional Council
  • NGO "National Association of Oncologists of Ukraine"
  • NGO "Ukrainian Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, Endocrinologists, Ophthalmologists, Maxillofacial Surgeons and Radiation Oncologists"
  • NGO "Ukrainian Medical Association in Lviv"
About
Section
The forum is dedicated to the achievements of clinical oncology over the past 20 years. During this time, oncologists have received at least several classes of effective antitumor weapons: targeted therapy ("small" molecules), targeted antibodies ("mabs"), immunotherapy. These areas are developing intensively, which has made it possible to significantly improve treatment outcomes. Indeed, who would have expected 20 years ago that almost half of patients with aggressive metastatic melanoma would be able to survive a 5-year period, and with metastatic ALK+ lung cancer, the median survival rate would significantly exceed the duration of this important indicator. Today, we already have dozens of molecules in our arsenal that block various pathways of tumor development. At our symposium, oncologists will receive information that we hope will make it possible to improve the treatment outcomes of cancer patients.
About
Section
Over the past decades, there has been a significant improvement in the effectiveness of treatment of cancer patients with various locations. Despite this, the neglect ratio among patients with head and neck tumors, unfortunately, remains high, which in turn causes great concern. This forum is dedicated not only to innovative approaches, but also sets new challenges and tasks for us, uniting a community of various specialists (oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, etc.), whose efforts, in turn, give hope to our patients for recovery. Therefore, studying the causes of this phenomenon, as well as ways to overcome them, is definitely relevant and necessary. We hope for our great cooperation, substantive discussions and unforgettable impressions.
Directions - Innovative clinical oncology:
molecules - target and weapon
09:00-10:00 – Forum opening
10:00-18:00 – Section work
  • «Nobel Prize in …Oncology». Keynote lecture
  • Targeted Antitumor Therapy: How It Began
  • To the 60th Anniversary of the New Address of the Lviv Cancer Center. Our Contribution to the Implementation of Innovative Methods of Drug Treatment
  • Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: What is the Optimal Sequence?
  • Diversity of Driver Mutations in Lung Cancer
  • Targeted Therapy in Lung Cancer: It’s Time for Adjuvant
  • Is Immunotherapy Effective in Monotherapy? On the example of non-small cell lung cancer
  • Immunotherapy: Adjuvant or neoadjuvant
  • Combination of targeted therapy with immunotherapy
  • Agnostic therapy in oncology
  • Innovative anticancer therapy: The role of generics and biosimilars
  • New methods of therapy - new problems (side effects of immunotherapy, targeted therapy)
  • How new molecules make it possible to intensify chemotherapy.
    The role of dose density
  • Features of assessing the effect of targeted therapy and immunotherapy
  • Medical genetic testing: How extensive should it be
  • Germline and somatic mutations. Clinical oncogenetics
  • The first method of gene therapy in oncology.
    PARPi in patients with hereditary BRCA mutations
  • A new method of gene therapy targeting VHL
  • And if there are very few targets. The role of HER2
  • ADC: the Trojan Horse Principle
  • Memorial lecture of Prof. A.I. Gnatyshak. Hormone therapy for breast cancer: What next?
Directions - Current trends in diagnostics
and treatment of head and neck tumors
09:00-10:00 – Forum opening
10:00-18:00 – Section work
  • What has changed in approaches to combined treatment of head and neck tumors
  • Microsurgical technologies in closing defects of head and neck tissues
  • Minimally invasive interventions as a way to reduce the trauma of surgical intervention and improve the quality of life of patients
  • Cryosurgical interventions that open up the possibility of expanding both radical and palliative care
  • Modern possibilities of radiation therapy in the treatment of malignant pathology of the head and neck
  • Immunotherapy and targeted therapy in the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
  • Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy in patients with head and neck cancer
  • Melanoma of the scalp and neck – what has changed in the tactics of diagnosis and treatment
Forum Speakers
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  • Borys Bilynsky
    (Lviv, Ukraine)
    Professor of the Department of Oncology and Radiology of the Lviv National Medical University, Academician of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, European Organization for Cancer Research, European Society of Mammology
  • Everett E. Vokes
    (USA)
    Update of management of metastatic head and neck cancer
    Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, Chair of the Department of Medicine; Physician-in-Chief of the Medicine and Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago; international expert in head and neck cancer and thoracic cancer, past president of ASCO. Author of more than 450 articles and 80 books
  • Chris Holsinger
    (USA)
    Robotic Head and Neck Surgery: From TORS to Autonomous Surgery
    Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at Standford University, head of the program «Securing care for head and neck cancer patients», chief of the center of “Artificial Intellect in Medicine and Imaging”, member of numerous societies including the American College of Surgeons, American Head and Neck Society, the American Thyroid Association, and the ASCO
  • Nataliya Kovalchuk
    (USA)
    Automatic and Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology
    Clinical Professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of the MD Anderson Cancer Center / University of Texas, head of the command of the Help Ukraine Group
  • Nancy Y. Lee
    (USA)
    vice chair if the Experimental Therapeutics of the Department of Radiation Oncoogy; Service Chief of the Head and Neck; Service Chief of the Department of Head and Neck Radiation Oncology; Service Chief of the Department of Ptoton Therapy at the Memorian Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Şefik Hoşal
    (Ankara, Turkey)
    Transoral surgery for oral tongue cancer
    Professor at the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey. Founder and General secretary of the “Turkish Head and Neck Cancer Society”, general secretary of the European Head and Neck Society.
  • Monir Abousiam
    (Bolzano, Italy)
    ENT - Head&Neck surgeon, Regional Hospital of Bolzano
  • Pawel Golusinski
    (Poland)
    Unknown primary in head and neck in the era of TORS and HPV
    Professor of Otolaryngology and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Zielona Gora. Leader of the young EHNS
  • Jan Klozar
    (Prague, Czech Republic)
    Liquid biopsies in Head and Neck Cancer
    Professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the Charles University, president of Czech Head and Neck Cancer Cooperative Group
  • Nikolai Korpan
    (Vien, Austria)
    Cryoscience and Cryomedicine: From Fundamental Research to Clinical Implications
    Professor, Doctor of Medicine, member of the National Academy of Sciences, President of the International Institute of Cryosurgery
  • Oleh Kravets
    (Kyiv, Ukraine)
    Challenges and modern solutions in reconstructive surgery of the head and neck. Tongue reconstruction
    Doctor of Medical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Head and Neck Tumors of the National Cancer Institute
  • Daryna Shepetko-Dombrovska
    (Kyiv, Ukraine)
    Quantitative assessment of tryptophan content in the blood plasma of oropharyngeal cancer patients after COVID-19
    Postgraduate of the State Institution "Institute of Otolaryngology named after Prof. O.S. Kolomiychenko" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Lukach Ervin
    (Kyiv, Ukraine)
    Photodynamic therapy in the treatment of basal cell skin cancer of ENT localization
    Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Oncologic Pathology of ENT Organs of the State Institution " Institute of Otolaryngology named after Prof. O.S. Kolomiychenko" of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
  • Oleh Halay
    (Lviv, Ukraine)
    Clinical aspects of cryosurgical treatment of head and neck tumors
    Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Head and Neck Tumors of the Lviv Oncological Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Professor of the Department of Oncology and Radiology of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Head of the “Ukrainian Association of Oncologists, Otolaryngologists, Endocrinologists, Ophthalmologists, Maxillofacial Surgeons and Radiation Oncologists”
  • Roman Slipetsky
    (Lviv, Ukraine)
    Features of sentinel lymph node biopsy in head and neck cancer
    Surgeon-oncologist of the Department of Head and Neck Tumors of the Lviv Oncological Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Assistant Professor of the Department of Oncology and Radiology of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Secretary of the “Ukrainian Association of Oncologists, Otolaryngologists, Endocrinologists, Ophthalmologists, Maxillofacial Surgeons and Radiation Oncologists”
  • Yurij Mylan
    (Lviv, Ukraine)
    Head of the Computer tomography center of the Lviv Oncological Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center
For
whom?
Doctors in the following specialties are invited to participate: nuclear medicine, oncology, radiology, oncological surgery, maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, endocrinology, endoscopy, radiation diagnostics, radiation therapy, chemotherapy
Venue:
For technical issues and accommodation
Daria
+38 093 431 58 26
daria@vizitservice.com
Hotel:
Lviv
Hotel «Dnister», Yana Matejka Street, 6