This year, the UK Pelvic Exenteration Network (UKPEN) Annual Meeting in Swansea will focus on survivorship in pelvic exenteration, addressing outcomes beyond oncological clearance
The programme explores young patient care, fertility and sexual function, reconstruction, complications, CNS-led practice, training, GIRFT, and future directions including advanced imaging and 3D modelling, delivered through multidisciplinary case discussions, expert panels, and focused debates.
An abstract presentation session will take place on day two.
Please submit abstracts via the link below by the deadline of 23 March:
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The meeting runs from 10:00 on Thursday 7 May to 13:30 on Friday 8 May.
Attendance is free, but places are limited.
Refreshments and the conference dinner are generously supported by our partner, Medtronic.
Day1: Thursday 7th May
10 – 10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30 – 10:40 Welcome - Martyn Evans
10:40 – 11:00 GIRFT and Pelvic exenteration- Alex Mirnezami
11:00–12:40 ‘’Care of the Young Exenterative Patient’’
11:00–11:25 Genomic considerations in young rectal cancer patients- Frank McDermott
11:25–11:50 Fertility Considerations in Young Cancer Patients- Ephia Yasmin
11:50–12:15 Post op Erectile Dysfunction Clinic and ‘penile rehabilitation’- Yusuf Ahammed
12:15–12:40 Patient Experience of Exenteration surgery at a young age- Anna/Matt + Dean Harris/Martyn Evans / Kelly Jones
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 15:20 ‘’Mind the Gap’’
13:40 -13:50 Setting the scene –
13:50 - 14.00 Delivering the reconstruction service/Swansea experience- Martyn Evans / Peter Drew
14.00 -14.15 Sheath preserving VRAM - Peter Drew
14.15 - 14:30 Gracilis Flap reconstruction - Richard Haywood
14.30 - 14.45 IGAP Flap reconstruction - Paul Roblin
14:45 – 15:00 Panel discussion
15.00 - 15.15 The reconstruction Lexicon – Zoe Li
15:20 – 15:50 Debate One:
‘’Radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: Work of the devil or work of an angel’’
Moderator- Dean Harris
‘’Work of an angel’’: Craig Barrington
‘’Work of the devil’’: Martyn Evans
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break
16.20 – 17.20 ‘’Come to the confessional’’
Chair: Martyn Evans
Panel: Nicholas Gill, Richard Haywood, Ian Jenkins and Alex Mirnezami
16.20 – 16:40 Confession from Leicester- Kirsten Boyle
16.40 – 17:00 Confessions from Leeds- Jim Tiernan
17:00 – 17:20 Confessions from Manchester- Paul Sutton
17.20 – 17:50: ‘What I wish I had known at the start – 30 years on the coalface of exenterative surgery’’- Peter Sagar
17:50 Closing remarks
Day 2: Friday 8th May
9.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30 – 11.00
- Main Hall: Abstracts presentations
- Breakout Room: Pelvic exenteration Specialist Nurses session
11:00 – 11:50 Coffee break and snacks
11:50 - 12:50 Future directions in Pelvic Exenteration
11-50 – 12: 20 Setting up robotic exenteration service- Satish Warrier12:20 – 12:50 3D Pelvic Reconstruction in pelvic exenteration, Experience with Synapse 3D- Ramy Shaalan
12:50 – 13: 20 Debate two:
‘’ Drawing the line in anterior disease, All out or just enough’’
Moderator – Elaine burns
‘’All out’’: Dean Harris
‘’Just enough’’: Iain Jenkins
13:20 – 13:30 Closing remarks- Martyn Evans / Dean Harris