The second symposium took place from 10 to 12 October 2018 at the montpellier City Hall, it was organised in collaboration with the Cancéropôle Grand-Sud-Ouest.
This event gathered 120 participants, 29 speakers from 12 countries: Australia, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Singapore, Sweden, USA, allowing to address different themes. Professor Jacques Rouëssé, member of the French National Academy of Medicine, was the Honorary President of the 2018 symposium.
The main themes addressed
- Communicating with people with intellectual disabilities
- Treatment and care of people with intellectual disabilities who have cancer
- Carers and institutions
- Epidemiology of cancer in people with intellectual disabilities
- Cancer prevention and screening in people with intellectual disabilities
- Genetic links between cancer and intellectual disabilities
- Biology of cancer in the context of intellectual disabilities
- Childhood cancers
- Supportive care
- Distribution of cancers in people with intellectual disabilities
- Parallel session: Difficulty in cancer care – Download programme
The symposium are also an opportunity to meet for convivial moments of exchange.
A booklet summarising the entire symposium 2018 is available as well as the reportage made on the occasion.