6th Towards New Standards Symposium’, which will take place in Bruges, Belgium, from Thursday 5 December till Friday 6 December, 2024

Each year the BCI is delighted to be present as a speaker at the Towards New Standards Symposium and to discuss perfect rectal surgery performed by robot and the importance of local excision which should be integrated into future protocols.

 

International Forum on Rectal Cancer (FICARE 2024), November 14-15, 2024, Sao Paulo, Brazil

It is always a great pleasure to go to Brazil to discuss the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in organ preservation (GRECCAR 12 randomized trial of the GRECCAR group) and to moderate the session on the assessment of tumor response after neoadjuvant treatment. 
Other topics on surgical techniques such as the use of fluorescence in routine practice were also discussed.

 

 

20th Francophone Congress of Digestive and Hepatobilio-pancreatic Surgery (SFCD), November 6-8, 2024,Paris France

The BCI is delighted to have been able to present the results of two trials from the GRECCAR group:
- Randomized trial GRECCAR 12: Induction chemotherapy and radiochemotherapy versus radiochemotherapy alone in organ preservation of rectal cancer
- Snapshot of the GRECCAR group (observational study) on organ preservation in the management of rectal cancer.

 

19th Congress of European Society of ColoProctology (ESCP), 25-29th September 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece

Speaker at the essential annual European congress of the ESCP, to present the results of the SNAPSHOT trial on organ preservation in the treatment of rectal cancer.

We won the award for best communication in this SIX BEST session.

The BCI is also delighted to have won the award for best video with "Robotic approach for removal of a presacral lesion- a video vignette".

 

 

Annual Congress of the French Association of Surgery (AFC), September 19 & 20, 2024, Paris, France

It is with pleasure that the BCI was able to attend the AFC congress, and organize the meeting of the GRECCAR group (RESEARCH GROUP in RECTUM SURGERY) with the subject: WHAT'S NEW? WHAT'S NEW IN GRECCAR? "The opportunity for BCI to present through results and future trials: The rectal conservation strategy: GRECCAR2, GRECCAR12, GRECCAR20).