Session – 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Friday, 24 October 2025 - Session 3

Radiation Physics

10/24/2025 08:30 AM 10/24/2025 10:10 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Radiation Physics 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	08:30 - 10:10 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Nauman Amjad & Mehnaz Qamar & Muhammad Abdur Rafaye	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADIATION PHYSICS

08:30	INTEGRATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INTO A CLINICAL RADIOTHERAPY WORKFLOW
08:30	Aquila Sharif Head of Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, Peterborough City Hospital, NHS, UK

09:05	MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADIOTHERAPY AND PATIENT CARE
09:05	James Chow Professor Medical Physics, University of Toronto, Canada

09:30	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY: PRESENT AND FUTURE
09:30	Vanessa Panettieri Senior Medical Physicist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

10:00	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Infectious Diseases in Cancer Care

10/24/2025 10:10 AM 10/24/2025 11:40 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Infectious Diseases in Cancer Care 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	10:10 - 11:40 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Altaf Ahmed & Aun Raza	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

	BATTLING INFECTION FRONTIERS IN CANCER CARE: FROM MICROBES TO MANAGEMENT

10:10	CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTEREMIA IN CANCER PATIENTS
10:10	Summiya Nizamuddin Consultant Microbiologist, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

10:35	NEUTROPENIC SYNDROMES IN CANCER PATIENTS
10:35	Zartash Zafar Khan Consultant Infectious Diseases, Clemenceau Medical Center, UAE

11:00	MANAGEMENT OF LINE INFECTIONS IN CANCER PATIENTS
11:00	Amjad Mahboob Professor of Medicine & Consultant Infectious Diseases, Bacha Khan Medical College Swabi, Pakistan

11:25	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Free Papers

10/24/2025 11:50 AM 10/24/2025 01:20 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Free Papers 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	11:50 - 13:20 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Sohail Qureshi & Ahsun Waqar Khan & Muhammad Usman Rashid	CME Credit Hour:	0

11:50	6 O: EFFICACY OF INTRAOPERATIVE LOW DOSE IV ESKETAMINE FOR ACUTE POSTOPERATIVE PAIN CONTROL: META ANALYSIS OF RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS
11:50	Ehsan Majeed Fatima Memorial Hospital College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan

12:00	7 O: ENHANCING EFFICIENCY IN POST-ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT DISCHARGES: A NON-CLINICAL AUDIT PERSPECTIVE
12:00	Faraz Mansoor SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

12:10	8 O: GOLD NANORODS ENHANCED RADIATION INDUCED APOPTOSIS VIA ROS-MITOCHONDRIAL PATHWAY IN MOLT-4 CELLS
12:10	Paras Jawaid Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

12:20	9 O: PREDOMINANCE OF MGMT PROMOTER METHYLATION IN PAKISTANI GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENTS
12:20	Noor Muhammad SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

12:30	10 O: HLA CLASS-I POLYMORPHISMS AMONG THE PUNJABI POPULATION OF PAKISTAN: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH COUNTRY’S OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS
12:30	Aliza Mirza Minhaj University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

12:40	11 O: OUTCOMES IN TERMS OF MORTALITY IN PATIENTS OF COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA WITH RAISED B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE
12:40	Binish Hayat Services Institute Of Medical Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Free Papers

10/24/2025 02:00 PM 10/24/2025 03:30 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Free Papers 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Misbah Masood & Arif Jamshed & Abbas Khokhar & Mohammed Adil Akhter	CME Credit Hour:	0

14:00	12 O: HISTOPATHOLOGICAL SPECTRUM AND PAIN S IN ORAL LESIONS , A CROSS-SECT ST FRO A TERT CARE CEN IN OAK
14:00	Eman Fatima Insta university Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Pakistan

14:10	13 O: TARGETING BCG UNRESPONSIVENESS IN NON MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER: DRUG REPURPOSING VIA TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILING
14:10	Iraj Ikram Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan

14:20	14 O: DIAGNOSTIC VALIDITY OF PIVKA-II AND AFP LEVELS FOR HCC USING CT TRIPHASIC SCAN AS GOLD STANDARD
14:20	Mahrukh Khan Doctors Hospital and Medical Centre, Lahore, Pakistan

14:40	16 O: ANTICANCER EFFECT OF PATULETIN ON NEUROBLASTOMA CELL LINE SH-SY5Y
14:40	Mahwish Fatima Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

15:00	18 O: OUTCOMES OF RELAPSED/REFRACTORY EXTRACRANIAL GERM CELL TUMORS TREATED ON CONVENTIONAL SALVAGE CHEMOTHERAPY WITHOUT STEM CELL RESCUE: EXPERIENCE FROM A TERTIARY CANCER CENTER
15:00	Syeda Tehreem Zahra SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

15:10	19 O: THERMAL ABLATION COMPARED TO SURGICAL RESECTION IN COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS. A GRADE-ASSESSED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, SURVIVAL META-ANALYSIS AND META-REGRESSION
15:10	Muhammad Ansab Services Institute Of Medical Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Free Papers

10/24/2025 03:40 PM 10/24/2025 05:10 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Free Papers 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	15:40 - 17:10 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Khalid Masood Gondal & Aamir Ali & Muhammad Awais	CME Credit Hour:	0

15:40	20 O: OUTCOME OF DRAIN-LESS BREAST SURGERY ON SEROMA AND ADJUVANT THERAPY TIMELINES
15:40	Tayyaba Ayaz SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

15:50	21 O: EVALUATING THE VALIDITY OF CASTT SCORE: CLINICAL JUDGMENT VS. SCORE-GUIDED TRACHEOSTOMY DECISIONS IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER SURGERY PATIENTS
15:50	Alishba Mubashar Gondal SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

16:00	22 O: THE EFFECT OF AGE ON PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; COMORBIDITIES, SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES, AND SURVIVAL
16:00	Muntaha Fatima Rana SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

16:10	23 O: CIRCUMFERENTIAL RADIAL MARGIN AND EARLY 12-MONTH RECURRENCE AFTER TWO-STAGE ESOPHAGECTOMY: A SINGLE-CENTRE COHORT
16:10	Muhammad Hammad ur Rehman SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

16:20	24 O: LAP VS OPEN MANAGEMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCERS. OUR EXPERIENCE FROM A PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITAL
16:20	Sardar Umer Rehman Services Institute Of Medical Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

16:30	25 O: FACTORS DETERMINING SURVIVAL IN OLIGO-METASTATIC BREAST CANCER IN A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY FROM A LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY (LMIC)
16:30	Kulsoom Shaikh Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

16:40	26 O: TEXTBOOK OUTCOMES AFTER ESOPHAGECTOMY: A FIVE-YEAR OF EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIALIZED CENTRE IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
16:40	Sibgha Aimon SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

16:50	27 O: CAN COLONIC STENTING SAFELY BE USED AS A BRIDGE TO SURGERY?
16:50	Mariam Asad SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

17:00	28 O: USE OF NASOGASTRIC TUBE IN POST ESOPHAGECTOMY PATIENTS: IS IT REALLY NEEDED?
17:00	Zubair Shabir Khanzada SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

17:10	29 O: ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY VS SURVEILLANCE IN STAGE 2 COLON CANCER ; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE BETTER CHOICE OF APPROACH
17:10	Saddam Hussain SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan