Session – 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Friday, 6 November 2026 - Session 2

Multidimensional Pathology: The Cornserstone of Modern Diagnosis

11/06/2026 08:30 AM 11/06/2026 10:00 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Multidimensional Pathology: The Cornserstone of Modern Diagnosis 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	08:30 - 10:00 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Haseeb Khan & Safana Sadaf	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

08:30	BIOMARKER AND MOLECULAR TESTING IN LUNG CANCER
08:30	Aliya Husain - Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

08:55	CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BIOMARKER AND MOLECULAR TESTING IN LUNG CANCER
08:55	Abbas Khokhar - Associate Professor, Mayo Hospital, Lahore Pakistan

09:20	INTEGRATIVE DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH INSTEAD OF THE PHENOTYPE VS GENOTYPE DOGMA (Virtual Talk)
09:20	Abbas Agaimy - Professor of Pathology, University of Erlangen, Germany

09:45	NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOURS OF LUNG: PROPOSED NEW CRITERIA AND TERMINOLOGY
09:45	Aliya Husain - Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

10:05	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Imaging in Oncology

11/06/2026 10:10 AM 11/06/2026 11:40 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Imaging in Oncology 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	10:10 - 11:40 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Saman Chaudhary & Kashif Siddique	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

10:10	PERINEURAL SPREAD IN HEAD & NECK CANCER - THE RADIOLOGIST BLIND SPOT
10:10	Syed Shahzad Hussain - Consultant Radiologist, SKMCH&RC, Peshawar, Pakistan

10:35	THE ROLE OF TRANSARTERIAL RADIOEMBOLIZATION IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
10:35	Abdullah Saeed - Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute & Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan

10:55	MRI IN RECTAL CANCER: FROM BASELINE STAGING TO TUMOR REGRESSION AFTER NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY
10:55	Farhat Bano - Consultant Radiologist, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Healthcare, UK

11:20	UPDATES ON PAEDIATRIC CANCER PREDISPOSITION SYNDROMES
11:20	Nadia Mahmood - Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Texas Children's Hospital, Texas, USA

11:40	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Uro-Oncology

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

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	11:50 - 13:20 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Rab Nawaz Maken & Asma Rashid	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

11:50	NON-MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER: EXPLORING THERAPIES BEYOND BACILLUS CALMETTE-GUERIN
11:50	Muhammad Hammad Ather - Professor of Urology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

12:10	EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF MANAGEMENT OF OLIGO METASTATIC DISEASE - FUTURE OF HYPOFRACTIONATION IN PROSTATE
12:10	Shahid Hameed - Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Jefferson Regional Hospital, Arkansas, USA

12:30	EVOLVING ROLE OF SBRT IN OLIGOMETASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
12:30	Muhammad Ali - Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

12:50	UPDATES IN BLADDER CANCER (Virtual Talk)
12:50	Syed Hussain - Professor of Medical Oncology, Sheffield Hospital, Sheffield, UK

13:10	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Cancer Genomics

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

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	14:20 - 15:50 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Moazur Rahman & Muhammad Usman Rashid	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

14:20	COMPLEX GENOMIC CHANGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF LYNCH SYNDROME (Virtual Talk)
14:20	Rodney J. Scott - Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

14:40	GENOMIC DETERMINANTS OF OVARIAN CANCER PROGNOSIS
14:40	Thilo Dork - Professor, Head of the Gynecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

15:00	25 YEARS OF PRECISION ONCOLOGY IN PAKISTAN: NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN BREAST CANCER GENETIC PROFILING AND TRANSLATIONAL IMPACT
15:00	Muhammad Usman Rashid - Senior Research Scientist, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

15:20	GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY FOR ENDOMETRIAL CANCER - RECENT ADVANCES
15:20	Thilo Dork - Professor, Head of the Gynecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

15:40	QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Free Papers

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

Date:	6 November 2026	Time:	16:00 - 17:30 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Humayun Bashir, Jamshed Ali & Aamer Iftikhar	CME Credit Hour:

16:00	01 : CLINICAL UTILITY OF PET-CT IN EVALUATION OF NEUROBLASTOMA: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
16:00	Muntaha Fatima Rana Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

16:10	02 : CLINICAL UTILITY OF FDG PET-CT IN GASTROESOPHAGEAL SIGNET RING CELL CARCINOMA; CURRENT EVIDENCE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
16:10	Areeba Amin Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

16:20	03 : EVALUATING RESPONSE OF NEOADJUVANT CISPLATIN AND DOXORUBICIN CHEMOTHERAPY IN OSTEOSARCOMA PATIENTS: A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL STUDY
16:20	Ammara Yasmin Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

16:30	04 : CDK4/6 INHIBITORS IN HORMONE RECEPTOR-POSITIVE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER: A REAL-WORLD RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY FROM A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
16:30	Mohammad Nouman Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Peshawar, Pakistan

16:40	05 : TREATMENT OF ADVANCED HCC USING REGORAFENIB: THE LARGEST COHORT OF USE AS A LATER LINE OF THERAPY IN A LMIC
16:40	Amjad Zafar Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

16:50	06 : DEMOGRAPHIC, CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL AND SURVIVAL STUDY OF SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR OF BRAIN DIAGNOSED AT SHAUKAT KHANUM MEMORIAL CANCER HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE
16:50	Shayan Khan Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

17:00	07 : RADIOGENOMIC PREDICTION OF IDH MUTATION STATUS IN DIFFUSE GLIOMAS: DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE OF THE T2/FLAIR MISMATCH SIGN AND VASARI-BASED CONVENTIONAL MRI FEATURES
17:00	Fatima Mubarak Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

17:10	08 : COMPUTER-ASSISTED IMAGE-FUSION GUIDANCE COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL ULTRASOUND-BASED GUIDANCE FOR THERMAL ABLATION OF DIFFICULT-TO-TREAT HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: A GRADE-ASSESSED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
17:10	Wajahat Mirza Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, Pakistan

17:20	09 : IMAGING OUTCOMES OF A ONE-MONTH BREAST CANCER SCREENING PROGRAMME IN SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL: A CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS
17:20	Saba Azhar Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan