Session – 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Friday, 6 November 2026 - Session 1

Oncological Nursing - I

11/06/2026 08:30 AM 11/06/2026 10:00 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Oncological Nursing - I 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	08:30 - 10:00 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Zeenat Sulaiman Khan & Nasir Khan	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

08:30	INNOVATIVE SPECIALIZED ROLES TRANSFORMING ONCOLOGY CARE: EMPOWERING SPECIALIZED ONCOLOGY NURSES
08:30	Rehana Elahi - Chief Nursing Officer, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

08:50	EMPOWERING SPECIALIZED NURSING TO DELIVER SAFE AND HIGH-QUALITY CARE
08:50	Zeenat Sulaiman Khan - Regional Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Health Services Kenya

09:15	INNOVATIONS IN ONCOLOGY WOUND AND OSTOMY CARE: IMPROVING OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF LIFE
09:15	Sukaina Muhammad - Advanced Practice Nurse, Wound Care Specialist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

09:35	BREAST CARE NURSE NAVIGATION: SPECIALIZED AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN DEVELOPING WORLD
09:35	Rubi - Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

09:55	SUPPORTING LIFE BEYOND CANCER: NURSING APPROACHES TO REHABILITATION AND SURVIVORSHIP
09:55	Adnan Yaqoob - Head of Nursing, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

10:15	QUESTIONS & ANSWER

AIM OR OPERATE? THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN

11/06/2026 10:10 AM 11/06/2026 11:40 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE AIM OR OPERATE? THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	10:10 - 11:40 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Irfan Ahmed & Muneeb Uddin Karim	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

10:10	UROLOGY PERSPECTIVE - NEPHRECTOMY (PARTIAL VS RADICAL NEPHRECTOMY)
10:10	Muhammad Hammad Ather - Professor of Urology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

10:30	RADIATION ONCOLOGY PERSPECTIVE – Renal SBRT FOR MEDICALLY INOPERABLE PATIENTS
10:30	Muhammad Ali - Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

10:50	HEPATIC RESECTION FOR PRIMARY AND METASTATIC LIVER TUMORS: GOLD STANDARD OR SELECTIVE TOOL?
10:50	Irfan Ahmed - Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgery, King’s College Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

11:10	SBRT FOR LIVER TUMORS: PRECISION RADIATION BEYOND SURGERY AND ABLATION
11:10	Azhar Rashid - Consultant Clinical & Radiation, Neuro-spinal & Cancer Care Institute, Karachi, Pakistan

11:30	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Breast Cancer - I

11/06/2026 11:50 AM 11/06/2026 01:20 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Breast Cancer - I 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	11:50 - 13:20 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Fareeha Sheikh & Ahsan Mumtaz Rao	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

11:50	UPDATES IN FOR SURVEILLANCE OF HIGH-RISK PATIENTS AND HEREDITARY BREAST CANCER
11:50	Ali Sever - Consultant Radiologist, King’s College London, London, UK

12:10	CURRENT EVOLUTION OF BREAST CANCER RADIOTHERAPY
12:10	Asim Amjad - Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology, The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Canada

12:30	BREAST RECONSTRUCTION IN HEREDITARY BREAST CANCER - IMPLANT BASED RECONSTRUCTION
12:30	John Benson - Consultant Breast Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospital, Cambridge, UK

12:50	ROLE OF FREE FLAPS IN BREAST CANCER SURGERY
12:50	Muhammad Omar Afzal - Consultant Plastic Surgeon, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

13:10	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Breast Cancer - II

11/06/2026 02:20 PM 11/06/2026 03:50 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Breast Cancer - II 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	14:20 - 15:50 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Abbas Khokhar & Asma Rashid	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

14:20	EXPANDING ROLE OF CDK 4/6 INHIBITORS IN HR+VE / HER2 -VE/LOW IN EARLY & ADVANCED BREAST CANCER (Virtual Talk)
14:20	Christopher Twelves - Professor of Clinical Cancer, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

14:40	MANAGEMENT OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER DURING PREGNANCY
14:40	Hassan Hameed - Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

15:00	MANAGEMENT OF THE AXILLA IN PRIMARY SURGICAL PATIENTS
15:00	John Benson - Consultant Breast Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospital, Cambridge, UK

15:20	DE-ESCALATION STRATEGIES OF ADJUVANT BREAST RADIOTHERAPY
15:20	Waqas Ishtiaq Ali - United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals, Lincolnshire, UK

15:40	PANEL DISCUSSION - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Immuno-Oncology

11/06/2026 04:00 PM 11/06/2026 05:30 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Immuno-Oncology 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	16:00 - 17:30 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Tahir Bashir & Asma Rashid	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

16:00	CHALLENGES IN IMMUNOTHERAPY SIDE EFFECTS MANAGEMENTS
16:00	Syed Abdul Mannan Hamdani - Consultant Medical Oncology, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

16:20	ARE THE RULES DIFFERENT TO ASSESS IMMUNOTHERAPY TREATMENT RESPONSE?
16:20	Aamna Hassan - Nuclear Medicine Physician, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

16:40	INTERACTION & SAFETY OF COMBINING IMMUNOTHERAPY WITH RADIATION
16:40	Waqas Ishtiaq Ali - United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals, Lincolnshire, UK

17:00	CASE DISCUSSION
17:00	Panelists: Syed Abdul Mannan Hamdani, Aamna Hassan, and Waqas Ishtiaq Ali

17:20	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS