ITMIG2025
Scientific and Educational Program
DAY 2: Friday, October 3, 2025
08:00 - 08:45 Updates on Myasthenia Gravis and Thymic Diseases
Chairs:
Perioperative management in patients with myasthenia gravis
Neurological outcome of thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis
The current and future treatment landscape for myasthenia gravis
Q&A, Discussion
08:45 - 09:45 Oral Abstract Session 2
Chairs:
6 ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
09:45 - 10:45 Surgery session: Facing Aggressive and Large Thymomas
Chairs:
Minimally invasive and hybrid approaches for large tumors
Open surgery: sternotomy, thoracotomy and clamshell incision
The approach to phrenic nerve involvement in patients with and without myasthenia gravis
Q&A, Discussion
10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Poster presentations
11:30 - 13:00 ITMIG – SICT Joint Session: What Surgeons Should Know and Non-Surgeons Want to Understand?
(Plenary Room SICT meeting, Underground Floor 1)
Chairs:
Is it time to complete transition from Masaoka Koga to TNM? (PRO/CON)
Robotic surgery: where are we now and how much further can we go?
Treatment of Stage III TETs with vascular invasion: upfront or post-induction surgery?
The role of hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) in multimodal treatment of de novo stage IVA TETs
Surgical treatment of recurrent pleural disease: focal pleurectomy, pleurectomy/decortication + or – HITHOC or Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP)?
Q&A, Discussion
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:15 ITMIG Committees and Working Groups Updates
Chairs:
Membership Committee Paolo Mendogni (Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy)
Thymic Carcinoma and Mediastinal Working Groups Anja Roden (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA)
Education Committee Vincent Fang (Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China)
Mediastinum Collaboration Working Group Vincent Fang (Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China)
Retrospective/Prospective Database Committee Nicolas Girard (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Biology Working Group Thierry Molina (Université Paris Cité , AP-HP, Paris, France)
Artificial Intelligence Working Group Jan von der Thüsen (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Communication Committee Chul Kim (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)
15:15 - 16:15 Multidisciplinary Considerations in Radiotherapy Management and Advances in Radiation Oncology for Thymic Malignancies
Chairs:
Surgery Considerations for or Against Postoperative Radiation Therapy
Pathology Considerations for or Against Postoperative Radiation Therapy
Radiation Therapy: Decision Making, Outcomes, and Modalities
Radiation Therapy: Post-treatment Care and Management
Q&A, Discussion
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break
Poster presentations
16:45 - 18:15 TUMOR BOARD
Chairs:
Case 1: (Myasthenia gravis and advanced disease)
Presenter:
Expert Panel:
Radiology:
Pathology:
Thoracic Surgery:
Radiation Oncology:
Medical Oncology:
Case 2: (Management issues in a frail patient)
Presenter:
Expert Panel:
Radiology:
Pathology:
Thoracic Surgery:
Radiation Oncology:
Medical Oncology:
Case 3: (Advanced pleural disease)
Presenter:
Expert Panel:
Radiology:
Pathology:
Thoracic Surgery:
Radiation Oncology:
Medical Oncology:
CALL for TUMOR BOARD CASE
for ITMIG2025
Do you have an interesting thymic tumor case and would like to present it during ITMIG2025?
Or do you need a multidisciplinary consultation and advice on your patient? CONTACT US and briefly present your case.
PLEASE NOTE that for presentation during ITMIG2025 you will need full radiological documentation (CT/MRI/PET-CT images in the form of DICOM files) and scanned (digital/virtual) representative microscopic (histopathological) slides.
18:15 - 18:30 ANNOUNCEMENTS, AWARDS, CLOSING CEREMONY
20:15 - 22:30 ITMIG GALA DINNER
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