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Early Detection- To Screen or not to Screen?

date: 19 March 2009

Venue: London Bridge Hospital, St Olaf House, The Board Room
Time: 12.30pm - 5.00pm  

Time Session Speaker
12.30 - 1.00pm

AAA & Vascular Screening

Mr Ian Loftus
1.00 - 1.30pm

Save a Life? Cardiac Screening

Dr Cliff Bucknall
1.30 - 2.30pm Lunch & Hospital Tour  
2.30 - 3.00pm Alerts in Ovarian Cancer Dr David Oram
3.00 - 3.30pm Breast Screening & Digital Mammography Annabel McCone & Dr David Evans
3.30 - 3.45pm Tea & Coffee  
3.45 - 4.15pm Hepatology & Abnormal LFT's Dr Philip Harrison
4.15 - 4.45pm Rectal Bleeding & Colorectal Cancer Screening Mr Andrew Williams

Mr Ian Loftus, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, St Georges Hospital/LBH

Dr Cliff Bucknall Consultant Cardiologist, Guys & St Thomas’/LBH

Mr David Oram Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, Barts and The London/LBH

Annabel McCone Mammography Superintendent Radiographer, LBH

Dr David Evans Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital/LBH

Dr Phillip Harrison Consultant Hepatologist, Kings College Hospital/LBH

Mr Andrew Williams Consultant Colorectal & General Surgeon, Guys and St Thomas’/LBH

This seminar will present an overview of early detection and symptom awareness alerts in clinical practice. Top teaching hospital specialists from Cardiology, Gynaecology, Hepatology and Vascular, Breast and Colorectal Surgery, will address how and when to screen whilst considering its effectiveness.

For further information on educational seminars for GPs, please contact Joanna Patterson, GP Liaison Officer:     

Telephone 0207 234 2557, email Joanna.Patterson@hcahealthcare.co.uk.