Bladder Cancer Think Tank 2011

BCAN’s 6th annual Bladder Cancer Think Tank started with a bang on Thursday, August 4! More than 100 leading doctors, researchers, patient advocates, and industry representatives have come to Coronado, California to talk about ways to improve bladder cancer care.  The meeting concluded on Saturday, August 6.

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• Thursday, August 4
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• Saturday, August 6

The 2011 meeting theme is “Identifying Obstacles and Creating Solutions in Bladder Cancer: Basic Science, Clinical Trials and Survivorship.”

Everyone here shares a common goal: working together to help advance bladder cancer research. This may be at the basic science level, by finding better ways to collect data, or by improving survivorship by creating new patient educational materials. The 2011 meeting objectives are to create opportunities for collaboration among basic scientists, practitioners, advocates, and industry partners to identify obstacles and create solutions in the following ways:

I.	Foster multi-disciplinary opportunities among translational scientists and clinicians for collaboration in bladder cancer research.
II.	Establish standards for data collection in bladder cancer research.
III.	Identify key factors affecting the completion of bladder cancer clinical trials and evaluate ways to increase patient involvement and enrollment.
IV.	Identify how current practice patterns differ from the bladder cancer treatment standards, evaluate why that variation exists, and determine steps to encourage a standardized treatment approach.
V.	Develop resources to fill identified gaps in available survivorship tools and patient information for bladder cancer.

2011 Think Tank Attendees are invited to view an archive of the presentations that were given.  Click here to enter the password protected section of BCAN’s site to view these slides.