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Preconference Workshops Offer Diverse Educational Opportunities Across Specialties

Opening day offerings include sessions on everything from compassion fatigue and building resilience to the latest in lung cancer screening and science communication.

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Haleigh Behrman

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Meeting News, WCLC News

The 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) features an extensive lineup of workshops designed to pique the interests of attendees from across all subspecialties within thoracic oncology. The first day of WCLC 2025 includes several exciting sessions that attendees won’t want to miss.

Building on the success of the preconference workshopat WCLC 2024, Humans Helping Humans: Overcoming Compassion Fatigue and Building Resilience in Oncology Care returns to help oncology professionals explore evidence-based strategies for managing stress and cultivating both personal and professional resilience.

Several joint workshops will be held on the first day of WCLC 2025, including the IASLC and International Thoracic Oncology Nursing Forum (ITONF) Nurse & Allied Health Professional (AHP) workshop, the IASLC-CSCO-CAALC workshop, and the IASLC-International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) session.

Plan your first day at WCLC 2025 with this list of workshops scheduled for Saturday, September 6. For the most up-to-date information and the complete conference program, please visit the WCLC 2025 website.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Humans Helping Humans: Overcoming Compassion Fatigue and Building Resilience in Oncology Care
8:15 – 9:45 Central European Summer Time (CEST), Room 10

Personalizing Approaches to SCLC: Translating New Understandings
of SCLC Heterogeneity into Biomarker-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer Therapies

8:15 – 9:45 CEST, Room 09

Early Career Investigator Workshop–Part 1
8:30 – 11:30 CEST, Room 03

Joint IASLC-CSCO-CAALC Session: Global Perspectives in Lung Cancer Treatment:
Tackling Real-World Challenges Together
8:30 – 11:30 CEST, Room 06

IASLC/iMig Workshop
8:30 – 11:30 CEST, Room 07

2025 IASLC CT Screening Symposium (Ticketed Session)
8:30 – 11:30 CEST, Room 08

Implication of the New TNM on the Management of Thymic Malignancies
10:00 – 11:30 CEST, Room 10

Practical Application of Gene-Editing for the Verification of Novel Lung Cancer Biomarkers:
From Gene Discovery to Pre-clinical and Beyond
10:00 – 11:30 CEST, Room 09

Early Career Investigator Workshop – Part 2
13:00 – 14:15 CEST, Room 03

2025 IASLC CT Screening Symposium, continued (Ticketed session)
13:00 – 16:00 CEST, Room 08

IASLC & ITONF: Nurse & AHP Workshop
13:00 – 16:00 CEST, Room 07

Debates, Discussions & Didactics on Science Communications in 2025
13:00 – 14:15 CEST, Room 09

AI Usage for Radiation Oncology: Where Are We and Where Will We Go?
13:00 – 15:00 CEST, Room 10

GGO Management and Treatment – Intraoperative Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy (ENB)
Guided Marking and Minimally Invasive Resection
13:00 – 15:00 CEST, Room 12

Early Career Investigator Workshop – Part 3
14:30 – 16:00 CEST, Room 03

LATAM Workshop
14:30 – 16:00 CEST, Room 06

From Guidelines to Implementation in NSCLC: Pertinent Considerations of Adherence to
Consensus Standards of Care in Clinical Practice
14:30 – 16:00 CEST, Room 09


About the Authors

Haleigh Behrman

Haleigh Behrman

Assistant Editor, ILCN