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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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