Session – 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Friday, 24 October 2025 - Session 1

Oncological Nursing - I

10/24/2025 08:30 AM 10/24/2025 10:10 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Oncological Nursing - I

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	08:30 - 10:10 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Raisa Gul & Nasir Khan & Farida Khan	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

CME Evaluation

	UNITING FOR IMPACT: GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR CONTEXUAL HEALTH INITIATIVES IN ONCOLOGY NURSING

08:30	USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN NURSING ACADEMIA (Virtual Talk)
08:30	Angel Anthamatten Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, USA

08:55	USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE IN NURSING PRACTICE
08:55	Siobhán O’Connor Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London, UK

09:20	PATIENT & FAMILY EMPOWERMENT: STRATEGIES TO FILL THE GAP IN CANCER CARE SERVICES
09:20	Raisa Gul Dean Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan

09:45	EXPLORING THE NURSES’ MENTAL WELL-BEING: PERSPECTIVES FROM CLINICAL NURSES AND NURSE LEADERS IN A CANCER CARE SETTING
09:45	Rehana Elahi Chief Nursing Officer, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

10:05	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Thoracic Oncology

10/24/2025 10:10 AM 10/24/2025 11:40 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Thoracic Oncology

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	10:10 - 11:40 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Tabinda Sadaf	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

CME Evaluation

	NAVIGATING COMPLEX CASES IN LUNG CANCER: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

	Panelists:Maryam Hameed /Aamna Hassan /Asma Rashid /Ahmed Awais /Sameed Hussain /Zeeshan Tariq

10:10	Case 1: METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

10:30	Case 2: STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY IN EARLY-STAGE LUNG CANCER

10:50	Case 3: EARLY-STAGE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

11:10	Case 4: MANAGING BRAIN METASTASIS

11:30	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Breast Cancer

10/24/2025 11:50 AM 10/24/2025 01:20 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Breast Cancer

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	11:50 - 13:20 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Abbas Khokhar & Jamshed Ali (Pesh)	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

CME Evaluation

	PIVOTAL PRACTICE VIEW ON BREAST CANCER MANAGEMENT

11:50	ESTIMATING THE RISK OF RECURRENCE IN EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER
11:50	Rob Stein Professor of Breast Cancer, University College London, London, UK

12:15	MANAGEMENT OF METASTATIC HER-2 POSTIVE BREAST CANCER - RECENT ADVANCES
12:15	Azmina Tajdin Valimohd Consultant Medical Oncologist, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

12:40	HOW I TREAT METASTATIC TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER IN 2025
12:40	Kamran Rashid Consultant Medical Oncologist, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan

13:05	PANEL DISCUSSION - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Acute Oncology & Allied Medicine

10/24/2025 02:00 PM 10/24/2025 03:30 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Acute Oncology & Allied Medicine

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Arif Mehmood Siddiqui & Waqas Shafiq & Ahmed Imran Siddiqi	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

CME Evaluation

	RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE ONCOLOGY CONDITIONS

14:00	GASTROINTESTINAL BLEED - A NOT SO COMMON CAUSE
14:00	Arif Mehmood Siddiqui Consultant Gastroenterologist, Rashid Latif Khan University Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan

14:25	HYPERGLYCEMIC EMERGENCIES IN ONCOLOGY - CHALLENGING CASES
14:25	Fawad Randhawa Consultant Endocrinologist, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan

14:50	ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES
14:50	Shahid Sattar Ahmed Assistant Professor Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

15:15	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Cancer Genomics

10/24/2025 03:40 PM 10/24/2025 05:30 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Cancer Genomics

Date:	24 October 2025	Time:	15:40 - 17:30 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Sohail Qureshi & Amir Faisal	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

CME Evaluation

	FROM DATA TO DECISION: ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FROM MOLECULAR PROFILING

15:40	USING CEREBROSPINAL FLUID TO INFORM DIAGNOSIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS (Virtual Talk)
15:40	Honey V. Reddi Medical Director, Belay Diagnostics, Chicago, USA

16:05	Genomics-Guided Personalized Cancer Therapy for Breast Cancer
16:05	Muhammad Shoaib Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Group Leader, Epigenome and Genome Integrity Lab (EaGIL) SBA School of Science and Engineering. Lahore University of Management Sciences

16:30	Precision in Haematological Malignancy Practice: From Genomics to Therapeutics
16:30	Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed Assistant Professor and Section Head Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The Aga Khan University, Karachi

16:55	GENETIC LANDSCAPE OF PAKISTANI FAMILIAL BREAST CANCER PATIENTS USING MULTIGENE PANEL TESTING
16:55	Muhammad Usman Rashid Senior Research Scientist, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

17:20	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS & PANEL DISCUSSION
17:20	Panelists: Muhammad Usman Rashid, Muhammad Shoaib, Honey V. Reddi & Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed