Grant: Dissemination Events - Priority Announcement: Cancer Research

Bone remains the most of the common place that cancers spread to. Bone metastases are incurable, difficult to treat, and are often associated with pain, reduced quality of life and skeletal events such as fractures. The care of these patients is complex, involving many clinical disciplines including; nursing, palliative care, physiotherapy, orthopaedic surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, and palliative care to name a few. Trans-disciplinary information is required if we are to ultimately deliver optimal and consistent care for Canadian patients. In order to facilitate cross-disciplinary information exchange and initiate new collaborations, we have hosted the annual BONUS (Bone and Oncology New Updates) meeting for the past 8 years. This proposal is requesting funds to support the next conference which will again consist of keynote lectures from National and International speakers covering a range of bone issues pertinent to oncology health care professionals and the research community. The BONUS 9 Symposium will be April 24-25, 2014 in Ottawa, Ontario. The topics will cover normal skeletal function, as well as the effects of cancer and cancer therapies on normal and metastatic bone. As in previous years we will divide the meeting sessions into CIHR research priority themes. Each session will contain a mixture of basic, clinical and translational research work, and will be pertinent to all tumour types that commonly spread to bone. Through a series of presentations and interactive sessions (including a new dedicated session on knowledge translation) we will exchange unpublished new research findings and generate multi-disciplinary collaborations thus initiating exciting Canadian research endeavours that will shape future basic and clinical research.