EpSSG Paris Winter MEETING 2024

06 December 2024

Paris, December 4-6, 2024

veronique
monika
paris
The EpSSG Winter meeting was held in Paris (France) December 4th-6th.The local organizers were Lucy Metayer, Florent Guerin, Daniel Orbach, and Veronique Minard-Colin.
The discipline panel groups met at Gustave Roussy hospital on Wednesday 4th prior to the main Winter meeting. The main meeting took place at the Campus Les Cordeliers with 149 international delegates.
The Campus des Cordeliers is a historic site located in the heart of Paris, in the 6th arrondissement, between Rue de l'École de Médecine and Boulevard Saint-Germain. Les Cordeliers is one of the emblematic places where the French Revolution was prepared.
There were very productive sessions on brachytherapy treatment, other local treatment and synovial Sarcoma. Prof. Hervé Fridman, professor Emeritus of Immunology at the University of Paris, gave an outstanding keynote lecture on Immunology.
Since October 2024, the EpSSG board officially invited CWS to become part of EpSSG. All CWS countries agreed to this important step.Therefore in Paris, EpSSG members officially elected Monika Sparber-Sauer and Martin Ebinger as full members of the EpSSG board. From that moment on, a united EpSSG exists in Europe — including the Countries of the CWS (Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden...) all united to optimising the treatment and prognosis of all our patients with soft tissue sarcomas.
At the Gala Dinner, held in Hotel Poulpry a special place to gather and chill after a full day of science. Lucy Metayer with Daniel Orbach have organized some quiz to continue the magic of the Olympic Games in Paris.