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27 September 2018

ESCP 2018 got off to a fantastic start with the most delegates we’ve ever had welcomed to our Annual and Scientific meeting - over 1,700. Again we are proving that there is demand for a quality programme packed with world-class keynote speakers, inspiring symposia, in-depth educational and top class research sessions.

27 September 2018

This hugely inspirational session focussed on how the exponential development of technology currently being seen has the potential to revolutionise how we work in the colorectal speciality - from collaboration across borders sharing best practice and extending research, to engaging with patients and harnessing cutting-edge techniques to improve procedures.

27 September 2018

The first ever joint session between the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and ESCP focussed, perhaps unsurprisingly, on hereditary colorectal cancer and featured global experts in the field, John Burn, Matthias Kloor and Toni Seppälä.

27 September 2018

ESCP's 13th Meeting kicked off with the symposium: Tips, Tricks and Error Traps chaired by Beatriz Martin-Perez from Spain and Des Winter from Ireland. The session featured three world-renowned speakers - Steven Wexner from USA, speaking on benign disease; Bill Heald from UK, focussing on primary rectal cancer; and Michael Solomon from Australia, looking at recurrent rectal cancer.

26 September 2018

A surgeon at Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey has become one of the most qualified colorectal surgeons in the world after scoring the highest marks in Europe in an advanced specialist exam.