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Thursday, November 13th, 2025 Friday, November 14th, 2025 Saturday, November 15th, 2025

Sponsorslot

Time: 17:25 - 17:45 CET

20 minutes session program

Improving surgical results in HNC patients by intra-operative assessment of resection margins

Time: 11:20 - 11:45 CET

Senada Koljenovic

Belgium

The patient perspective: how the supportive care needs change before, during, and after the treatment?”

Time: 15:45 - 16:10 CET

Russel York

Timing is Everything: How Should We Combine Radiation and Immunotherapy?

Time: 09:20 - 09:55 CET

Kevin Harrington

United Kingdom

Discussion

Time: 09:55 - 10:20 CET

The surgeon point of view – Sandra Schmitz | The radiation oncologist point of view – Silke Tribius | The medical oncologist point of view – Lisa Licitra

Innnovation in locally advanced NPC: where do we go ?

Time: 11:10 - 11:35 CET

Hans Langendijk

The Netherlands

Clinical cases proposed by young oncologists

Time: 11:45 - 12:50 CET

Welcome & Registration open

Time: 08:00 - 08:30 CET

Welcome & Registration open

Time: 08:00 - 08:30 CET

Lunch

Time: 13:00 - 14:00 CET

Poster session review and award

Time: 12:00 - 13:00 CET

Break and poster viewing

Time: 10:20 - 10:45 CET

EBV ctDNA to guide therapy in nasopharyngeal cancer : ready for prime time

Time: 11:35 - 12:00 CET

Melvin Chua Lee Kiang

Singapore

Resistance mechanisms to immunotherapy

Time: 10:45 - 11:10 CET

John Haanen

The Netherlands

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant immunotherapy for resectable head and neck cancer

Time: 08:55 - 09:20 CET

Cristina Valero

Spain

Promising advances in immunotherapy

Time: 08:30 - 08:55 CET

Petr Szturz

Switzerland

Break and poster viewing

Time: 16:10 - 16:45 CET

Lunch

Time: 12:50 - 14:00 CET

Lunchsymposiumslot between 13:00 – 14:00 PM

Break and poster viewing

Time: 09:55 - 10:30 CET

News from EHNS

Time: 18:00 - 18:25 CET

Giovanni Succo

Italy

News from the EORTC:

Time: 17:45 - 18:00 CET

Silke Tribius

Germany

Proffered papers – session 2

Time: 16:45 - 17:05 CET

Management of mucositis and radiation-induced dermatitis

Time: 15:15 - 15:40 CET

Paolo Bossi

Italy

Nutrition during treatment and management of treatment-induced cachexia

Time: 14:50 - 15:15 CET

Pre-habilitation before treatment for head and neck cancer

Time: 14:00 - 14:25 CET

Lauri Locati

Italy

How to manage stage 1 p16-positive oropharyngeal cancer ?

Time: 10:55 - 11:20 CET

Christian Simon

Switzerland

Improving Quality of Care in Surgical Oncology: Are we catching up?

Time: 10:30 - 10:55 CET

René Leemans

The Netherlands

DaVinci SP: Technical Tips & Data-driven De-Escalation

Time: 09:20 - 09:45 CET

Christopher Holsinger

New radiotherapy modalities: spatially-modulated RT

Time: 08:55 - 09:20 CET

Paul Bergeron

France

Randomized clinical trial comparing protons and photons

Time: 08:30 - 08:55 CET

Steven Frank

Clinical cases

Time: 17:50 - 18:15 CET

Proffered papers – session 1

Time: 16:50 - 17:05 CET

Tumour dormancy and metastasis

Time: 16:25 - 16:50 CET

Robert Metcalf

Molecular biology of radiation response and resistance

Time: 16:00 - 16:20 CET

Ben O’Leary

United Kingdom

The role of tumor microenvironment in head and neck cancer

Time: 14:40 - 15:05 CET

Inge Tinhofer

Germany

ctDNA for HPV-positive disease : ready for prime time ?

Time: 14:15 - 14:40 CET

Ruud Brakenhoff

The Netherlands

ctDNA for HPV-negative disease : ready for prime time ?

Time: 13:50 - 14:15 CET

Rachel Galot

Belgium

Pros and Cons of AI in health care (patient implication)

Time: 13:25 - 13:50 CET

Peter van Ooijen

The Netherlands

AI for clinical decision

Time: 13:00 - 13:25 CET

Break and poster viewing

Time: 15:30 - 16:00 CET

Welcome reception

Time: 19:00 - 21:00 CET

Welcome & Registratie open

Time: 12:30 - 13:00 CET