Session – 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Sunday, 8 November 2026 - Session 2

Neuro-Oncology

11/08/2026 09:00 AM 11/08/2026 11:00 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Neuro-Oncology 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	8 November 2026	Time:	09:00 - 11:00 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Fauzia Sajjad & Muneeb Uddin Karim	CME Credit Hour:	2

09:00	BALANCING AGGRESSIVENESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE: ETHICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY SURGERY
09:00	Ather Enam - Professor of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

09:20	REDEFINING ADULT GLIOMAS: CLINICAL UPDATES AND MOLECULAR INSIGHTS FOR PERSONALIZED CARE
09:20	Aisha Memon - Consultant Histopathologist, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

09:40	STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY: TRANSFORMING BRAIN METASTASES TREATMENT
09:40	Christina Tsien - Professor of Radiation Oncology, Mcgill University, Montréal, Canada

10:00	CASE DISCUSSION: 1. GLIOMA 2. BRAIN METASTASES
10:00	Moderator: Muneeb Uddin Karim - Consultant Clinical & Radiation Oncology SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan Panelists: Ather Enam, Aisha Memon, Irfan Yousaf, Zaheer Abbas, Asma Rashid & Christina Tsien

Beyond Survival: Quality,Comfort & Outcomes In Oncocritical Care

11/08/2026 11:10 AM 11/08/2026 12:10 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Beyond Survival: Quality,Comfort & Outcomes In Oncocritical Care 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	8 November 2026	Time:	11:10 - 12:10 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Sadia Sadaqat	CME Credit Hour:	1

11:10	NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION IN ONCO-CRITICAL SETTINGS: WHAT IS THE END POINT?
11:10	Hilary Mcloughlin - Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

11:35	POST ICU QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES IN ONCOLOGY PATIENTS
11:35	Masooma Aqeel - Consultant Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

12:00	SEDATION GUIDELINES 2025: THE PERSPECTIVE?
12:00	Asim Munir - Clinical Instructor, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

12:25	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS & PANEL DISCUSSION
12:25	Panelists: Jodat Saleem, Tauseef Ahmed, Sadia Omer & Hilary Mcloughlin

Free Papers

11/08/2026 12:20 PM 11/08/2026 01:50 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Free Papers 25th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	8 November 2026	Time:	12:20 - 13:50 (GMT+5)
Chair:	Aamir Ali Syed, Syed Irfan Kabir & Syed Nabeel Zafar	CME Credit Hour:

12:20	01 : RECTAL CARCINOMA IN PAKISTAN: A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE FROM A TERTIARY CANCER CENTRE
12:20	Nida Saleem Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

12:35	02 : DOES THE TIMING OF OESOPHAGECTOMY AFTER NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY AFFECT PATHOLOGIC COMPLETE RESPONSE AND PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES? A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF THREE SURGICAL INTERVALS (<8, 8–12, 12–16 WEEKS)
12:35	Muhammad Zeb Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

12:50	03 : ONCOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING LIQUID NITROGEN-TREATED RECYCLED AUTOGRAFT RECONSTRUCTION FOR EXTREMITY BONE SARCOMAS: A SINGLE-CENTRE RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
12:50	Hafiz Usman Arshad Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

13:00	04 : CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND LONG-TERM ONCOLOGICAL OUTCOMES OF BREAST CANCER IN PAKISTAN: A LARGE HOSPITAL-BASED COHORT STUDY
13:00	Zakia Madad Ali Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

13:15	05 : CONCORDANCE BETWEEN AI-GENERATED AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COLORECTAL CANCER: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
13:15	Sayed Moosa Kazim Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

13:25	06 : PATTERNS, TIMING, AND SITES OF RECURRENCE IN HIGH-GRADE SEROUS OVARIAN CANCER FOLLOWING ADJUVANT THERAPY: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
13:25	Maria Aslam Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

13:35	07 : OUTCOMES OF PAEDIATRIC GENITOURINARY RHABDOMYOSARCOMA: A SINGLE-CENTRE EXPERIENCE
13:35	Rija Khalid Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan

13:45	08 : CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF COLON CARCINOMA: A 10-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY FROM PAKISTAN
13:45	Hassan Mohsin Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan