Sessions and international faculty from the GEST 2010 Plenary Session on HCC held Saturday 8 May include:

• Review of vascular anatomy collateral and variants and micro-circulation, Osamu Matsui, JP
• New imaging technology in HCC: fusion imaging, flat panel CT, Daniel Sze, US
• When do we need biopsy? Evidence and guidelines, Matthew Johnson, US
• Hypovascular tumor: how to find your way? Shiro Miyayama, JP
• HCC supplied by extrahepatic collaterals: how to treat, Jin Wook Chung, KS
• Arterio portal shunting: how to treat, Kyoichiro Yamakado, JP
• Technical differences and endpoints between TACE and DE beads, Thierry De Baere, FR
• Synergies between loco-regional and systemic treatments in HCC , Riccardo Lencioni, IT
• Loco-regional therapy of liver tumors: Rf, Microwave, etc., Riccardo Lencioni, IT

Sessions and international faculty from the GEST 2010 Plenary Session on Liver Tumor held Saturday 8 May include:

• Imaging for assessment of tumor viability after therapy, Riad Salem, US
• Is there a role for percutaneous hepatic perfusion? Frederick Moeslein, US
• State of evidence: TACE, Daniel Sze, US
• State of evidence: drug eluting beads, Jeff F Geschwind, US
• State of evidence: bland embolization, Franco Orsi, IT
• State of evidence: combined therapy Kyoichiro Yamakado, JP
• Portal vein embolization: basic review of procedural steps, Dong Il Gwon, KS
• Portal vein embolization: material selection and results, Masahide Takahashi, JP
• Neuroendocrine tumors: bland embolization, TACE or radioembolization, Thierry de Baere, FR

Sessions and international faculty from the GEST 2010 Plenary Session on Radioembolization held Friday 7 May include:

• Start-up essentials: finding partners, assembling a team, Riad Salem, US
• Becoming an authorized user, where and how it is possible, Matthew Johnson, US
• Radioembolization: practice building, cost and reimbursement issues, Daniel Brown, US
• Patient selection work-up and dose calculation, Daniel Brown, US
• Radioembolization: review of dangerous arterial anatomy, Thomas Kroencke, DE
• Radioembolization: state of the evidence in hepatic metastases, William Rilling, US
• Radioembolization: state of the evidence in HCC and cholangiocarcinoma, John Kaufman, US
• Radioembolization: complications, Riad Salem, US
• Radioembolization in neuroendocrine tumors, William Rilling, US