Lunch debates Saturday June 17

LUNCH DEBATE

12.00 - 13.00 hours, Auditorium

AUTOLOGOUS TRANSPLANTATION SHOULD BE PERFORMED IN FIRST-LINE TREATMENT OF FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA
Chair: A. Lister (St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom)

YES
Ch. Gisselbrecht (Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France)
NO
M.H.J. van Oers (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

LUNCH DEBATE

12.00 - 13.00 hours, Forum

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING WILL REPLACE CYTOGENETIC/MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS IN ACUTE LEUKEMIA
Chair: B. Löwenberg (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

YES
T. Haferlach (MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany)
NO
D. Grimwade (King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom)

LUNCH DEBATE

12.00 - 13.00 hours, Room X

PROPHYLACTIC LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN IN PREGNANT WOMEN
Chair: J. Conard (University Hospital Hotel-Dieu, Paris, France)

YES
S.M. Bates (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
NO
B. Brenner (Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)