British Society for Clinical Cytology, 47th Annual Scientific Meeting, Dublin, 7 - 10 September 2008

Programme Information

SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
By Invitation Only:
09:00 – 13:00 BSCC Council Meeting (by invitation only) AF301
10:00 – 18:00 Exhibition Build Up Design Studio
13:00 – 18:00 Registration Restaurant
13:30 – 15:00 Workshops Session 1
(choose one)

1. Thyroid – Mairead Griffin, St James' Hospital, Dublin
2. Serous Fluids – Alison Marker, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge
3. Gynae 1 Glandular Lesions on SP & TP – Chris Waddell, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham
4. Gynae 2 Practical HPV Testing for the Cytologist – Katherine Hunt, Bristol Andrew Bailey and Alex Sargent,  Manchester

Workshop 4 supported by Qiagen
Syndicate Rooms


AF101
Off Site (DTI)
AF102

AF103
15:00 – 15:30 Refreshment Break Restaurant
15:30 – 17:00  Workshops Session 2
(choose one)

1. Thyroid – Mairead Griffin, St James' Hospital, Dublin
2. Serous Fluids –Alison Marker, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge
3. Gynae 1 Glandular Lesions on SP & TP – Chris Waddell, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham
4. Gynae 2 Practical HPV Testing for the Cytologist – Katherine Hunt, Bristol Andrew Bailey and Alex Sargent,  Manchester

Workshop 4 supported by Qiagen
Syndicate Rooms


AF101
Off Site (DTI)
AF102

AF103
17:15 – 17:50  (Optional) Qiagen Symposium - Clinical aspects of HPV triage testing Main Auditorium
18:00 – 18.45 Official Opening of Exhibition & Welcome Reception Design Studio
18.45 - 22.30 Welcome Party, Buffet and Dance – Cash Bar available
Buffet available from 18.45 – 19.30
Bar Closes at Midnight
Restaurant
MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
07:45 – 16:45 Registration Conference Centre Foyer
08:45 – 16:45 Poster Viewing/Exhibition/Slide Display for Slide Seminar   Design Studio
08.45 – 09.00 Welcome
Alison Malkin, Dublin Institute Of Technology, Dublin
David Gibbons, St Luke's Hospital, Dublin
Main Auditorium
09:00 – 10:30 Symposium – Automation in Cervical Cytology
Chair: David Gibbons, St Luke's Hospital, Dublin

ThinPrep Imager
Noel Bolger, Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin

Tripath GS System
Charles Normand, Trinity College, Dublin

A Comparison of the ThinPrep Imaging System and Manual Screening by Meta Analysis and Systematic Review
Professor Charles Normand, Trinity College, Dublin
Main Auditorium
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break Design Studio
11:00 – 12:30 Proffered Papers (Gynae)
Chair: Alison Malkin, Dublin Institute Of Technology, Dublin

O-1
WOMEN’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES REGARDING CERVICAL SCREENING AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV): FOCUS GROUP FINDINGS FROM IRELAND
Judith Murphy1, Linda Sharp1, Cara Martin2, Loretto Pilkington3, Orla Sheils2 and John O'Leary3
1National Cancer Registry Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 2Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 3Department of Pathology, Coombe Women's Hospital, Dublin

O-2
IS A SINGLE HPV TEST EFFECTIVE IN THE TRIAGE OF WOMEN WITH LOW-GRADE SMEARS TO REPEAT SMEARS OR COLPOSCOPY?  EVIDENCE FROM TOMBOLA
Louise Smart1, Seonaidh Cotton1, Linda Sharp2, Julian Little3, Margaret Cruickshank1, Rashmi Seth4, Ian Duncan5, Kirsten Harrild1, Keith Neal6 and Norman Waugh3
1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2National Cancer Registry Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 3Univerity of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 4Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom, 6University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

O-3
AUDIT OF INVASIVE CERVICAL CANCER DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF ORGANISED SCREENING: HOW INTERVAL CANCERS BECAME MORE FREQUENT WHILE THEIR INCIDENCE DECLINED
Amanda Herbert1, Anshu1, Subodh Gupta2, Marie Gregory3 and Neeta Singh3
1Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, 2Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, India, 3Southampton University Hospital Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom

O-4
HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS PREVALENCE AND GENOTYPE DISTRIBUTION IN THE IRISH CERVICAL SCREENING POPULATION
Jamie McInerney1, Loretto Pilkington2, Helen Keegan2, Martina Ring2, Noel Bolger2, Orla Sheils1, O’Leary John1 and Cara Martin1
1Department of Histopathology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2Department of Pathology, Coombe Women and Infants Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

O-5
COMPARISON OF SUREPATH AND THINPREP LIQUID-BASED CERVICAL CYTOLOGY (LBC) IN RELATION TO POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE (PPV), ATYPICAL PREDICTIVE VALUE (APV) AND TOTAL PREDICTIVE VALUE (TPV)
Paul K Wright, Janet Marshalla and Mina Desai
Manchester Cytology Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom

O-6
ADVERSE PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT POLICES FOLLOWING A LOW-GRADE ABNORMAL SMEAR.  RESULTS FROM TOMBOLA.
Linda Sharp2, Louise Smart1, Seonaidh Cotton1, Nicola Gray1, Leslie Walker3 and Julian Little4
1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2National Cancer Registry Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 3University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom, 4University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Main Auditorium
12:45 – 13:25 (Optional) Hologic Symposium - Supporting Women from Camden to Guyana Main Auditorium
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition, Slide and Poster Viewing Design Studio
13:30 – 15:00 Symposium – Integrated IT Systems
Chair: Edward Duvall, University of Edinburgh

The Scottish Cervical Call and Recall System
Edward Duvall, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, and
Allan Wilson, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie

Implementing SCCRS in the Community
Margaret Kenicer, NHS Tayside, Dundee

Cyres – Integrating Cytology and Colposcopy
Mary Hirschfeld, Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough
Main Auditorium
15:00 – 15:30 Refreshment Break Design Studio
15:30 – 16:00 Proffered Papers (Gynae)
Chair: Andrew Evered, Llandough Hospital, Penarth

O-7
HAS THE RECENT LBC ROLLOUT TRAINING HIGHLIGHTED ANY SUBSEQUENT TRAINING NEEDS?
Christine Waddell1, Sara Smith2 and Maureen Frost1
1Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

O-8
COMPARISON OF PRETECT™ HPV-PROOFER AND HYBRID CAPTURE 2 FOR HPV DETECTION WITH VIRAL LOAD ANALYSIS OF HPV16, HPV18 AND HPV33 E6/E7mRNA POSITIVE SPECIMENS
Helen Keegan1, Jamie McInerney2, Loretto Pilkington1, Petter Gronn3, Ivan Silva3, Frank Karlsen3, Noel Bolger1, Catriona Logan4, Liv Furuberg5 and John O'Leary2
1Department of Pathology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2Department of Histopathology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3Norchip AS, Klokkartsua, Norway, 4Department of Microbiology, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland, 5MiNaLab Facility, SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway
Main Auditorium
16:00 – 16:45 Erica Wachtel Lecture

‘Why Cytology?’
Dr David Melcher
Main Auditorium
17.00 – 18.00 IACC – Anual General Meeting Main Auditorium
18:30 – 20:00 Dublin City Tour - Optional
(tickets to be purchased in advance - £15)
Delegates to be picked up at Griffith College for a tour of the City ending at O’Connell Street
 
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
08:00 – 16:00 Registration Conference Centre Foyer
08.30 – 16.00 Poster Viewing/ Exhibition/Slide Display for Slide Seminar Design Studio
08:30 – 10:00 Symposium – Assessment of Thyroid Nodules
Chair: Tom Giles, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool

Radiological Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules
Stephen Skehan, St Vincent University Hospital, Dublin

Role of the BMS in Onsite Assessment of Thyroid Aspirates
Margaret Middleton, Guy's And St Thomas' Hospital, London

Cytological Interpretation of Thyroid Nodules
Mairead Griffin, St James' Hospital, Dublin
Main Auditorium
08:30 – 10:00 Workshop Sessions
(choose one - £50)

Gynae Workshop – Difficult Dyskaryosis (ThinPrep®)

Judith Bingham, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Diagnostic Problems Associated with the Atrophic Pattern (SurePath®)
Nick Dudding, Leeds
 
10:00 – 10:30 Proffered Papers (Non-Gynae)
Chair: Barbara Loftus, Dublin, Adelaide And Meath Hospital, Dublin

O-9
TO THY OR NOT TO THY? THAT IS THE QUESTION.
AN AUDIT OF THYROID FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY REPORTING
Ciara Barrett2 and Michael Jeffers1
2Department of Histopathology, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

O-10
DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF BRONCHIAL BRUSH TIP CYTOLOGY
Stephen Crowther and Niall Swan
The Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating The National Children's Hospital (AMNCH), Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland
Main Auditorium
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break Design Studio
11:00 – 12:30 BSCC AGM - Members only Main Auditorium
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition, Slide and Poster Viewing Design Studio
13:30 – 15:00 Symposium – Biomarkers in Cervical Neoplasia
Chair: Mina Desai, Manchester Cytology Centre, Manchester

P16 and Replisome Associated Proteins in Cervical Pre-Cancer and Cancer
John O’Leary, Coombe Women's Hospital, Dublin

Integration of Biomarkers in Cervical Cytology
Bjorn Hagmar, Rikshospitalet, Oslo
Main Auditorium
15.00 – 15.30 Refreshment Break Design Studio
15:30 – 16:10 Demystifying Molecular Cytopathology
Chair: Martin Young, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London

Speaker: Fernando Schmitt, Medical Faculty of Porto University, Lisbon

Main Auditorium
16.10 – 16.30 Histological outcomes from one year of reporting urine cytology by the ThinPrep method
Andrew Evered, Welsh Cytology Training School, Cardiff
Main Auditorium
16.30 – 16.50 Urological Cytology – It’s Not All About TCC!
Hywel Thomas, Singleton Hospital, Swansea
Main Auditorium
18:30  Buses Leave from Griffith College to Trinity College  
19:00 – 23:30 BSCC Annual Dinner & Dance
(tickets to be purchased in advance - £55)

Supported by Irish Cancer Society
Trinity College
WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
08:00 – 12:30 Registration Conference
Centre Foyer
08.30 – 10:30 Exhibition/Poster Viewing Design Studio
08:30 – 09:15 Slide Seminar
Julie McCarthy, St Mary's NHS Trust, London
Glen Dixon, St Mary's NHS Trust, London
Main Auditorium
09:15 – 09:30 Forthcoming Meetings Main Auditorium
09:30 – 10.00 BSCCP President’s Address
Walter Prendiville, Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin
Main Auditorium
10:00 – 10:30 Refreshment Break Design Studio
10:30 – 11:10 Guest Lecture

Treatment of CIN –Predicting morbidity and failure

Walter Prendiville, Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin
Main Auditorium
11:10 – 12:30 Symposium - New Initiatives in the NHSCSP 
Chair: Karin Denton, South Mead Hospital, Bristol

Implementation of HPV testing in Primary Screening and as a Test of Cure
Henry Kitchener, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester

Implementation of Vaccination against HPV Infection
David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation, Department of Health
Main
Auditorium
12:30 – 12:40 Closing Remarks and Prizes
Alison Malkin, Dublin Institute Of Technology, Dublin
David Gibbons, St Luke's Hospital, Dublin
Main Auditorium
12:40 – 13:00 Lunch Optional – Sandwich Lunch pre-booked only Restaurant
13:30 – 15:00 Workshops Session 3
(choose one)

1. Thyroid – Mairead Griffin, St James' Hospital, Dublin
2. Serous Fluids – Alison Marker, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge
3. Gynae 1 Glandular Lesions on SP & TP – Chris Waddell, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham
4. Gynae 2 Practical HPV Testing for the Cytologist – Katherine Hunt, Bristol Andrew Bailey and Alex Sargent, Manchester

Workshop 4 supported by Qiagen
Syndicate Rooms


AF101
Off Site (DTI)
AF102

AF103
15:00 – 15:30 Refreshment Break  
15:30 – 17:00 Workshops Session 4
(choose one)

1. Thyroid – Mairead Griffin, St James's Hospital, Dublin
2. Serous Fluids – Alison Marker, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge
3. Gynae 1 Glandular Lesions on SP & TP – Chris Waddell, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham
4. Gynae 2 Practical HPV Testing for the Cytologist – Katherine Hunt, Bristol Andrew Bailey and Alex Sargent, Manchester

Workshop 4 supported by Qiagen
Syndicate Rooms


AF101
Off Site (DTI)
AF102

AF103

Conference Organisers

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