Chaired by Prof. Dirk Schadendorf, talks covered topics which included: melanoma epidemiology in the in period since the start of the
German National Skin Cancer
screening programme (Dr Andreas Strang); an overview of melanoma therapies used in
stage IV melanoma; adjuvant therapies
and prognosis in
stage III melanoma (Dr Lisa Zimmer); tumour heterogeneity, plasticity
and resistance in melanoma (Alexander Roesch); epigenomics of normal
and abnormal cell differentiation (Bernard Horsthermeke);
and, genetics
and epigenetics of uveal melanoma (Michael Zeschnigk).
On
stage will dance in which the dancers of Ballet Bundes Jugend, the
German National Youth Ballet founded
and directed by John Neumeier, two large
screens offer the movie.