Working to Eradicate Gynecologic Cancers

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Focused Plenary I: Translational Research, Concept to Clinic

Saturday, March 22, 2014: 11:00 AM-12:10 PM
Ballroom A (Tampa Convention Center)
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Moderator:  Douglas A. Levine, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
11:00 AM
Moderator Introductions
D. A. Levine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
 

 
11:05 AM
Long noncoding RNA HOTAIR is associated with human cervical cancer progression
H. J. Kim, G. W. Yim, S. M. Baek, J. W. Kim and Y. T. Kim
Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
 

 
11:14 AM
Biological effects of metformin in a preoperative window clinical trial for endometrial cancer
K. M. Schuler1, B. Rambally2, M. Difurio2, B. Sampey3, P. A. Gehrig2, L. Makowski2 and V. L. Bae-Jump2
1Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 3Metabolon, Research Triangle Park, NC
 

 
11:23 AM
Omentin: a potential tumor suppressor in the microenvironment associated with visceral obesity
M. Onstad, C. Au Yeung, L. L. Holman, R. E. Schmandt, Q. Zhang, M. F. Munsell, S. Mok and K. H. Lu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 

 
11:32 AM
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes in women with ovarian, peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer treated on GOG protocols 218 and 262
B. S. Norquist1, M. I. Harrell1, T. Walsh1, M. K. Lee1, M. C. King1, S. A. Davidson2, R. S. Mannel3, P. A. DiSilvestro4, E. M. Swisher1 and M. J. Birrer5
1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, 3University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 4Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI, 5Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center/Harvard University, Boston, MA
 

 
11:41 AM
Molecular profiling of tumors from stage I versus stage III/IV cancer patients: a prediction signature for metastasis in Gynecologic Oncology Group 8024
Y. Casablanca1, J. Mieznikowski2, R. Day3, C. A. Hamilton4, T. P. Conrads5, G. L. Maxwell6, B. L. Hood5, A. Wallace7, G. S. Rose8 and D. S. McMeekin9
1Wright Patterson Medical Center, Wright Patterson AFB, OH, 2Roswell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 3University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 4Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, 5Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence, Annandale, VA, 6Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, 7Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 8Mid Atlantic Pelvic Surgery Associates, Annandale, VA, 9The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
 

 
11:50 AM
Lecturette
J. Boyd
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
 

 
11:56 AM
Questions & Floor Discussion
 
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