Dear Colleague ,

The organising committee of Melanoma 2010 (http://www.melanoma2010.com) is proud to announce the program of perhaps the most comprehensive melanoma conference of the decade. The careful combination of 4 independently structured but integrated meetings covering basic and clinical research, pathology and primary care provides great opportunities for cross speciality exchange of knowledge and ideas from a wide range of local and international experts.
Day only registration is invited for the Melanocytic Pathology Symposium (Sunday Nov 7th) which will cover a broad range of important topics in contemporary melanocytic pathology such as pitfalls in pathological diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Spitzoid tumours, blue naevi and related entities, naevoid melanomas, regression, immunochemistry, sentinel lymph node biopsy and new diagnostic entities and an update on emerging fields such as the application of FISH in melanocytic tumours and molecular pathology. Futher details of the program are below. Full program and speaker details are available on the Melanoma 2010 website (http://melanoma2010.com).
We do hope you will join us in Sydney for what promises to be an exciting opportunity and educational event for all of us involved in the pathological diagnosis of melanocytic tumours and melanoma patient care.
Kind regards

Ray Barnhill
Richard Scolyer
Stan McCarthy
Co-convenors of 3rd Melanocytic Pathology Symposium of the International Melanoma Pathology Study Group

Program:

 
Sunday 7th November 2010
0900 - 1800     International Melanoma Pathology Study Group  
        Parkside 110A 
0900 - 0910     Introduction  
        Richard Scolyer; Raymond Barnhill     
0910 - 0930     Spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms: Experience from the Graz study
        Lorenzo Cerroni
0930-0950       Molecular advances in melanoma
        Boris. Bastian
0950 - 1010     Lymphangiogenesis, lymphatic invasion, and melanoma   
        David Elder   
1010 - 1030     Diagnostic drift in melanoma: a 20 year study 
        Lyn Duncan    
1030 - 1100     Morning Tea   
1100 - 1120     The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia's Structured Pathology||Reporting Protocol for Cutaneous Melanoma    
        Richard Scolyer
1120 - 1140     Unusual and rare variants of melanomas
        Stan McCarthy 
1140 - 1200     The Atypical Spitz Tumour: The Michigan Experience    
        Lori Lowe     
1200 - 1220     Complete regression of melanocytic lesions    
        Jane Messina  
1220 - 1230     Questions and Discussion      
1230 - 1400     Lunch 
1400 - 1420     FISH - Applications and Limitations for Melanocytic Lesions   
        Klaus Busam   
1420 - 1440     Evaluation of prognostic factors: The pathologist's perspective
        Chris Shea    
1440 - 1500     Atypical blue naevi and related melanomas     
        Raymond Barnhill      
1500 - 1520     Sentinel Node Biopsy: State of the Art!
        Alistair Cochran      
1520 - 1540     Pathological variation in diagnosis   
        Michael Piepkorn      
1540 - 1610     Afternoon Tea 
1610 - 1630     The 'naevoid' melanomas: A reappraisal
        Martin Cook   
1630 - 1650     Immunohistochemistry in melanoma      
        Gilles Landman
1650 - 1710     New diagnostic entities
        Martin C. Mihm
1710 - 1730     TBA   
              
1730 - 1800     Questions and Discussion