Friday 7 June 2002
12.15 - 13.15

lunch debates

Botticelli

RISK ADAPTED:TREATMENT IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
Chair: B. Löwenberg (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
YES
A.K. Burnett (University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom)
NO
T. Büchner (University Clinic Münster, Münster, Germany)

Raffaello

MULTIPLE MYELOMA: IS MORE BETTER?
Chair: R. Powles (Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Surrey, United Kingdom)
YES
G. Juliusson (University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden)
NO
M. Boccadoro (Cattedra Ematologia, Turin, Italy)

Tiziano

PROS AND CONS OF THROMBOPHILIA TESTING
Chair: M. Greaves (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
YES
I. Martinelli (Hospital Maggiore Milan, Milan, Italy)
NO
S. Machin (University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom)

Saturday 8 June 2002
13.00 - 14.00

lunch debates

Caravaggio

HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY IN MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES NOT ELIGIBLE FOR STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
Chair: M. Delforge (University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
YES
T.M. de Witte (University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
NO
E. Hellström Lindberg (Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden)

Botticelli

REDUCED INTENSITY STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES: IS THERE A ROLE TWO YEARS LATER?
Chair: J. Goldman (Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom)
YES
A.M. Carella (Hematology Department/BMT Unit, Genova, Italy)
NO
A. Gratwohl (Kantonsspital Basel, Basel, Switzerland)

Tiziano

SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: THE NEW APPROACH (BIOMED CENTRAL/PUBLIC LIBRARY) VS THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH
Chair: M. Cazzola (IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy)
NEW
Seecharran (Biomed Central Limited, London, United Kingdom)
TRADITIONAL
E.W. Campion (New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America)