 Welcome to the 9th European International Kidney Cancer Symposium and welcome to Dublin. My name is James Larkin. I'm a medical oncologist from the Royal Marsden in London and it is a great pleasure to welcome you here on behalf of the faculty and also the planning committee. Menodol ni'n meddwl, mynd fod yn cael ei wneud y trafnod o'r cyfnod hynny, stryd draw і rwy'n meddwl ychydig os ysgolwch i gyd-fyniad amgyrchol sydd eich eu cefnod i chi i siaradu eu chymell, pan lle wnaethon ni'n dechreu eu gwneud y trofnod i ffiyth i ni, i chi ei ffordd iawn iddynt yn eu gwirio, fe wnaethwch i ei gwbl yn ysgolwch ar gweithwyr. Mae'r cwmhwys i'r cydnod yma ar y ddechrau. Rwy'n fawr i'n gweithio'r cwmhwys i'r cydnod yma ar y dyfodol yma. Mae'r cwmhwys i'r cydnod yma ar y dyfodol, yn drug oeddoedd, yn gyfatholigio, yn y llwyddoedd. Mae'n gweithio'r ffaith i'r cydnod yma, ond mae'n gwybod ei wneud yn ei ddweud yn y cwmhwys. As you can see from the programme this afternoon, we are very fortunate to have a named lecture by Bernard Ascudia from IGR in Paris. We also have a named lecture tomorrow from Martin Gawr from the Master in London to people who made an enormous contribution over the last 10 or 20 years to improving outcomes in this disease. We also have a scientific symposium. We have a surgical session later on today. nyaud sat dancerle Christian fruit in this afternoon and and also there's a session devoted to the nursing care of patients with kidney cancer. And then leading into tomorrow we have sessions on systemic kidney cancer treatment on pathology and prognosis. R tastes a whole session on some of the open questions in this disease where we don't really know the answers. Before we finish just after lunch tomorrow where we're talking about challenges from the disease and from treatment. ac yn ymdweud. Felly, dyna'n gwneud ymddiwch yn ymddangos ac yn ymddiwch yn ei wneud. Yn ymddech chi'n gydweithio ymddiwch, Rhae Macdormart, ymddiwch yn ymddiwch yn ymddiwch yn ymddiwch, yn ymddiwch yn ymddiwch yn ymddiwch, i gydweithio'r cyfnod. A'r hynny, ymddiwch yn ymddiwch, a'r hynny'n gwybod, ac mae'n gwybod Canofski yn ymddiwch yn ymddiwch AWS on behalf of the Chidney Cancer Association and then Jean-Jacques Pâtard is here as well and he will be introduces Bern Arda Scudier lecture. So I think the only thing that I would finally like to do is to thank the team of the KCA and Jeanne Brau and everyone else in the office for organizing all of this. a lot of work goes on behind the scenes over months and months and months yn rhoi'r Minister ac yn ddigonol i'r holl gwybod am ychydigol iawn. Yn rhaid i'n ddweud, Ray. Rhaid i'n rhaid i'n gwneud i'n ddweud i ddweud i'r newid ar y gwael sy'n gweithio ar y gwasg o fewn i'r llei sy'n cymdeithasol. Ray. Ddweud i'r holl James, a ddweud i'n ddweud i'r holl gwneud i'r holl gweithio ar gyfer y cydnodig pan oedd yn Arland. Yn rhaid i'n ddweud i'n ddweud i'n ddweud i'r holl gweithio ar Arland. instrument mae cyfaint i gyd cael hyn fwy Adolf. Byddwn ni i fi'r cyswm hwnnw, cyfaint cyfaint cyfaint Cymru. Cyfaint cyswm hwnnw, mae'r cyfrannu gyda gynhyrch? Cyfaint cyswm hwnnw. Cynhyrchu eich cyfrannu. Cyfaint eich cyfrannu gydagol? Cyfaint cyswm. Ond yna'r cyfrannu cyfaint. Mae'r cyfrannu cyfrannu gy hillaniad gyfaint gyda'r cyfrannu. Do I need to do something here or does it come up automatically, figure. I'm not going forward for me. Unfortunately we seem to have a technological problem. It's not going forward. I don't know how do we get to the response page. It's not my first visit to Ireland obviously. Do we have someone from the... Just while we're waiting, I can tell you that this convention, sorry. Okay, so we'll move on. I was going to tell you an interesting story with this building, but I think of the interest of time with move on. Okay, well thank you so much James for allowing me to co-host us and I'm delighted that the event is on here in Ireland. And without further ado I'll ask Cary Konoski on the behalf of the Kidney Cancer Association to... Hi, good afternoon everyone. My name is Cary Konoski and I'm the Vice President of Development and Public Affairs for the Kidney Cancer Association. First I just want to say thank you to our sponsors and to the planning committee for the hard work that you've done this year to grant another wonderful meeting for us. For those of you not familiar with the organization, we were founded in 1990 by Eugene Schoenfeld who was a kidney cancer patient. As many of you know back in 1990 there wasn't much that could be done for patients diagnosed with the disease. And to Gene who was an academic to him that he couldn't understand that and didn't think that that was an answer he was willing to accept. So challenged by his physician he and a few other patients sat around his kitchen table and decided to form the Kidney Cancer Association. And what started in Chicago, Illinois in the United States with Gene and his doctor and a few patients is now the organization that you see today. This is our ninth European meeting and as you will hear from this weekend from Dr Lauren, Dr Skudie, we're both instrumental in getting our organization to really move to the next level and bring the work that we were doing in the US here into Europe. We're grateful for all of your hard work for this. I just wanted to mention again if you haven't had an opportunity to look, we have our website kidneycancer.org and kidneycancer.com which is more physician geared. So you'll find videos of past meetings if you haven't been able to attend and a variety of resources that we encourage you to pass along to your patients, to your nurses and others that you work with. Our primary publication is entitled We Have Kidney Cancer. That was put together by our nurse advisory board and is updated annually to incorporate new treatments, new surgeries that are being done for patients. And it's translated into 13 different languages. So if there is a language that we don't have and you think might be a value to your patients, please contact us and we'd be happy to work with you on getting that translated. And with that, again I would just like to thank you all again for being here. And now I will be introducing Jean-Jacques Patard, who will be presenting the Ph.M. de Malder Award this afternoon.