Annual Cancer Symposium - Award Winners - 2010

Resident Essay Winners

• Best Clinical Research Paper: Surgical Management of Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastatsis (38), Skye Mayo, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

• Best Poster: Adjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: A Simple Prediction Rule (P113), Jillian Smith, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

(Winners receive $600 cash and reimbursement of round-trip coach airfare to attend the meeting)

Poster Contest Winners

• Best Basic & Translational Research Poster: Poster 97, Low-Dose Metronomic Gemcitabine has High Antimetastatic Efficacy in an Orthotopic Mouse Model of Pancreatic Cancer. Author: Dr. H.S. Tran Cao, UC San Diego.

• Best Clinical Research Poster: Poster 232, Role of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Anorectal Melanoma, P.F. McAuliffe, MD, from MD Anderson Cancer Center.

(Winners receive a check for $500)

James Ewing Layman's Award

• Layman of the Year: Sanford L. Weill