The Seventh International Prostate Cancer Congress to be held at The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, FL from July 27-29 will include presentations on prostate cancer immunotherapy and vaccines by urologist Paul Schellhammer, Professor of Urology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and consultant to Dendreon, Corp., and oncologist Susan Slovin, a Memorial Sloan- Kettering immunologist who is working on bivalent and multivalent vaccines targeted at different arms of the immune system. Program details:

State-of-the-Art Lecture
Moderator: Oliver Sartor

• Surgical Approaches: Is New Better? James Eastham
• Radiation Therapy: Where Do We Go From Here? TBA
• New Developments in Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer Daniel Petrylak
• Pathology of Prostate Cancer: New Concepts David Bostwick
• Progress in Basic Prostate Cancer Research Edward Gelmann

Emerging Concepts in Immunology
Moderator: David McLeod

• Sargramostim and Anti–CTLA-4 Antibodies Charles Ryan
• An Update and Overview of Active Cellular Immunotherapies Paul Schellhammer
• New Trials and Concepts for Prostate Cancer Vaccines Susan Slovin

Bone Health
Moderator: Daniel Petrylak

• Treatment-Related Osteoporosis Matthew Smith
• Stromal-Based Bone-Targeted Therapies: Radioisotopes Oliver Sartor
• Osteoclast-Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Matthew Smith
• New Data on Chemotherapy/Radioisotopic Combinations Michael Morris

Complete time table and details at CancerConferences