The first ever joint session between the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and ESCP focussed, perhaps unsurprisingly, on hereditary colorectal cancer and featured global experts in the field, John Burn, Matthias Kloor and Toni Seppälä.
ESCP's 13th Meeting kicked off with the symposium: Tips, Tricks and Error Traps chaired by Beatriz Martin-Perez from Spain and Des Winter from Ireland. The session featured three world-renowned speakers - Steven Wexner from USA, speaking on benign disease; Bill Heald from UK, focussing on primary rectal cancer; and Michael Solomon from Australia, looking at recurrent rectal cancer.
A surgeon at Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey has become one of the most qualified colorectal surgeons in the world after scoring the highest marks in Europe in an advanced specialist exam.
ESCP's Education Committee has launched a new training school to help surgeons continue their professional education and development in the latest techniques of their field.
