NEWS IN BRIEF The Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC19) The APCCC took place on 29 – 31 August 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. The Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) was initiated to provide a forum to discuss and debate current questions on the clinical management of men with advanced prostate cancer, with a special focus on these unclear situations. Two days of the conference are dedicated to high-level presentations, discussions, and debates to summarize and conceptualize the available literature and evidence.
A number of ANZUP members including ANZUP Chair Ian Davis, Bertrand Tombal, Chris Sweeney, Michael Hofman, Declan Murphy and Mark Frydenberg were involved in the scientific program and join the discussion with fellow prostate cancer experts from around the world. You can learn more about the program online: https://www.apccc.org/apccc2019.html.
The conference concludes with voting by an interdisciplinary expert panel on pre-defined consensus questions targeting areas of clinical relevance. Following the conference, a manuscript with these expert recommendations is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
APCCC focusses on idealised situations, but in the end provides useful expert consensus recommendations particularly for areas where no clear evidence exists to guide practice. Ian Davis ANZUP Chair
ANZUP & PCFA Partnership Grant With the renewal of our Memorandum of Understanding for our PCFA ANZUP Partnership Grant for a further three years, ANZUP called to our membership for prostate cancer concepts. An array of ideas and concepts were submitted and in order to reach the shortlist we received feedback from a multidisciplinary panel with the end goal aim of becoming an ANZUP sponsored Protocol. The shortlisted applicants presented their concepts on Tuesday 26 November 2019 in Melbourne, and it was great to see so many enthusiastic members and creative and interesting concepts. Congratulations to the shortlist: David Wetherell, Kate Mahon, Anthony Joshua, Shahneen Sandhu, Craig Gedye, and Louise Emmett with Matthew Roberts.
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