Tentative Program
Day 1 (Sunday, June 28, 2026)
as of 3 February, 2026
| Time | Session | Speakers | Chairpersons |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:30-16:00 | Registration & Welcome Coffee | ||
| 16:00-16:20 | Welcome Address |
Toshikazu Ushijima
(Hoshi University, Japan) Lillian L. Siu (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada) |
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| 16:20-16:55 | Opening Keynote Lecture (I): Epigenetic Field Carcinogenesis and Precision Risk Estimation | Toshikazu Ushijima (Hoshi University, Japan) | |
| 16:55-17:30 | Opening Keynote Lecture (II): Precision Oncology in Head and Neck Cancers: From Molecular Insights to Global Impact | Lillian L. Siu (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada) | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Young Investigator Highlights - Selected Oral Presentations | Daniel Faden (Mass General Brigham, US) | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Welcome Reception & Networking on Posters | ||
Day 2 (Monday, June 29, 2026)
as of 3 February, 2026
| Time | Session | Speakers | Chairpersons |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30-10:00 | Session 1: Gastric Cancer |
Masanobu Oshima
(Kanazawa University, Japan) Patrick Tan (Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore) |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:15-11:45 | Session 2: Liquid Biopsy and Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring |
Hideaki Bando
(National Cancer Center, Japan) Dennis Lo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) |
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| 11:45-12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Lunch symposium 1 | ||
| 12:30-12:40 | Break | ||
| 12:40-13:10 | Lunch symposium 2 | ||
| 13:10-14:40 | Session 3: Esophageal Cancer |
Manabu Muto(Kyoto University, Japan) Suet Yi Leung (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) |
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| 14:40-15:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:00-16:30 | Session 4: Head and Neck Cancer |
Mizuo Ando
(Okayama University, Japan) Kevin J. Harrington (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK) Takahiro Tsujikawa (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan) |
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| 16:30-16:50 | Break | ||
| 16:50-17:20 | Evening symposium 1 | ||
| 17:20-17:30 | Break | ||
| 17:30-18:00 | Evening symposium 2 | ||
| 18:00-19:00 | Poster Presentations | ||
| 19:30-21:00 | Conference Dinner | ||
Day 3 (Tuesday, June 30, 2026)
as of 3 February, 2026
| Time | Session | Speakers | Chairpersons |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30-10:00 | Session 5: Viral and Bacterial Oncogenesis for Therapeutic Implications |
Atsushi Kaneda
(Chiba University, Japan) Jun Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Noah Sasa (The University of Osaka, Japan) |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:15-11:45 | Session 6: Precision Radiotherapy and Phototherapy |
Ryuhei Okada
(Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan) Quynh-Thu Le (Stanford University, US) |
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| 11:45-12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Lunch symposium 1 | ||
| 12:30-12:40 | Break | ||
| 12:40-13:10 | Lunch symposium 2 | ||
| 13:10-14:40 | Session 7: Immunotherapy and Other Immune-related Therapies in Upper Aerodigestive Cancer |
Ken Kato
(National Cancer Center, Japan) Danny Rischin (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia) Yosuke Togashi (Okayama University, Japan) |
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| 14:40-14:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 14:50-16:20 | Session 8: Next-Generation Therapeutics: ADCs, Bi-/Tri-specifics, Degraders |
Toshio Shimizu
(Kansai Medical University Hospital, Japan) Daniel S.W. Tan (National Cancer Centre, Singapore) Kyoko Hida (Hokkaido University, Japan) |
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| 16:20-16:45 | Closing Panel & Award Ceremony: Future Directions for Collaborative Research | ||
| 16:45-17:00 | Closing Remarks & Conference Adjournment |
Toshikazu Ushijima
(Hoshi University, Japan) Lillian L. Siu (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada) |
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