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Take care of the patient, not just treat the disease. It is the underlying theme of the conference on lung cancer scheduled for 21 and 22 September 2026 in Catanzaro, in the Aula Magna C of the Magna Graecia University. Two days that will address the path from diagnosis to treatment, up to management after surgery and home care, with the scientific responsibility of Professor Marco Chiappetta.
“Lung cancer: taking care of the patient, not just treating the disease” is the title of the event, which provides 10 ECM credits. The program links diagnostic, surgical, oncological and healthcare aspects, also dedicating space to artificial intelligence, new technologies and the role of nurses.
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September 21st: screening, lung nodules and new technologies
The first day will open at 2.30 pm with the registration of participants. The presentation of the event and the introduction of Marco Chiappetta are scheduled for 3pm, with speeches by Giovanni Cuda, rector of the Magna Graecia University, and Simone Carbone, general director of the AOU Renato Dulbecco. This will be followed at 3.30pm by Marco Alifano’s reading, “Treating the patient, not the disease”.
From 4pm the discussion will focus on the lung nodule, from detection to treatment: screening, lung pathology, risk stratification and indications for follow-up, up to the choice of when and how to intervene on ground glass and part solid nodules.
At 5.15pm it will be the turn of diagnostics and new technologies. The planned topics include endoscopic and transparietal approaches, the limits and prospects of liquid biopsy, the role of artificial intelligence in diagnosis and surgical indications for newly discovered nodules. There is also space for the evaluation of minimal residual disease and its prognostic significance. The end of the first day is set for 6.45pm.
September 22nd: therapies, surgery and patient care
The second day will begin at 9 with the reading “Surgery tailored to the patient”, entrusted to Stefano Margaritora. The session will follow on the integrated management of the patient and the disease: from predictive models based on artificial intelligence to preoperative evaluation, from surgery in elderly patients and those with comorbidities to choices relating to resection and lymphadenectomy.
The program will also explore the role of the pathologist in stratifying the prognosis and that of radiotherapy and interventional radiology in unresectable first-stage tumors.
At 11.30 the attention will shift to locally advanced lung cancer, with interventions dedicated to neoadjuvant treatments, surgery and its results, adjuvant treatment and options for the patient who is not a candidate for surgery. Afterwards, Emilio Bria will give a reading on new therapies and the prospects of integrated treatments.
In the afternoon, from 2pm, the process will continue with the management of the patient from the operating room to the home. Aspects of anesthesia, the role of ECMO, choices for analgesia, non-invasive ventilation in the postoperative phase and rehabilitation will be addressed.
At 3.15pm there will be a nursing session on the preparation and management of the patient in the ward, on the role of the operating room nurse in thoracic surgery and on the management of oncological therapies. The conclusions, entrusted to prof. Chiappetta, I’m scheduled for 4.30pm.