This sections aims to keep you up-to-date with CML news from international CML meetings. You can read summaries of important scientific meetings, watch interviews with leadings CML experts during these conferences and can follow sessions from important CML Patient Conferences.
From 6-8 May 2016, the CML Advocates Network welcomed 118 patient advocates to its annual conference CML Horizons in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Delegates from 65 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America came to learn from medical experts, share best practice in patient advocacy and grow their organization’s capacity. You can watch presentations and web streams from the following advocacy and medical sessions:
The CML Patient Day, supported by the CML Support Group UK, is an annual conference that gives attendees the opportunity to listen to talks from national and international medical experts in CML. The next Conference will take place in Manchester on the 24th of September 2016. The day will cover topics ranging from the basis, ‘What is CML?’, side effects of treatment through to discussions on second-line treatment and beyond. A link to the webcasts will become available on the day of the event.
Several patient organizations provide summaries of CML related topics discussed by leading experts in the field at international scientific meetings that we like to link to.
The CML Support Group UK provides a link to abstracts and notes from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology 2015. Read Prof. Steve O' Brians summary of ASH 2015.
Also Patient Power was on-site at the 2015 American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in Orlando to bring you the latest blood cancer-related treatment and research news. You can watch an expert review on CML by Professor Michael Mauro here. Fresh from the 2015 American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference, Dr. Michael Mauro of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center delves deeply into the world of CML, covering improved treatments and outcomes