FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025

8:00 - 8:30 AM REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST / EXHIBITS
8:30 - 8:40 AM

Introduction to the 2nd Annual Southern California Genitourinary Cancer Research Forum
Sumanta K. Pal, MD | City of Hope
Sia Daneshmand, MD | USC

8:40 - 9:00 AMPDF icon Key Updates in Kidney Cancer
Alex Chehrazi-Raffle, MD | City of Hope 

9:00 - 9:35 AM

 

 

 

 

PDF icon Case-Based Trial Discussion:
  • Front-line RCC 
  • Salvage RCC 
  • Non-Clear Cell RCC

Moderator: Sumanta K. Pal, MD
| City of Hope 
Yu-Wei Chen, MD, MS | UCSD 
Nataliya Mar, MD | UCI 
Brian Shuch, MD | UCLA
Hyung Kim, MD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Wesley Yip, MD | City of Hope 

9:35 - 10:10 AMKEYNOTE LECTURE
PDF icon Building a Successful GU Clinical & Translational Program
Andrea Necchi, MD | IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital 
10:10 - 10:30 AMREFRESHMENT BREAK / EXHIBITS
10:30 - 10:50 AMPDF icon Key Updates in Bladder Cancer
Nataliya Mar, MD | UCI 

10:50 - 11:40 AM

 

 

 

 

PDF icon Panel: Bladder Cancer Studies
   • Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) 
   • Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC)
   • Metastatic, 1st
   • Metastatic, Salvage

Moderator: Alexandra Drakaki, MD, PhD
| UCLA
Abhishek Tripathi, MD | City of Hope 
Sia Daneshmand, MD | USC 

Tyler Stewart, MD | UCSD
Nataliya Mar, MD | UCI 
Leslie Ballas, MD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 
11:40  - 11:50 AMGroup Picture
11:50 AM - 1:30 PMLUNCH/EXHIBITS/POSTERS
1:30 - 1:50 PMPDF icon Key Updates in Prostate Cancer
Jun Gong, MD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

1:50 - 2:35 PM

 

 

 

 

PDF icon Panel: Prostate Cancer Studies
   • Localized
   • Salvage Radiotherapy/Biochemical Recurrence (BCR)
   • Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC)
   • Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)

Moderator: Tanya Barauskas Dorff, MD
| City of Hope  
Arash Rezazadeh Kalebasty, MD | UCI 
Amar U. Kishan, MD | UCLA
John Shin, MD | Loma Linda University Health
David J. Benjamin, MD | Hoag
Przemyslaw Twardowski, MD | Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
2:35 - 2:50 PMPDF icon Key Updates in Testicular Cancer
Aditya Bagrodia, MD | UCSD
2:50 - 3:00 PMConcluding Remarks 
3:00 PM ADJOURN 


PDF icon AJCC CANCER STAGING FORMS For any disease-specific updates, please click here.