11-12 December. 2025,
Venue: Visitor Information Center Bansko BULGARIA
Accommodation: in Hotel “PIRIN **** Bansko
Program
11 December. 2025 Thursday,
15:00 – 18:00 – Registration Desk Opens in Hotel – “Four Points by Sheraton”- Bansko
18:30 – 18:40 – Anelia Dragneva- Thyroid Cancer, Social Media, and Medicine
18:40- 18:50 – Get together – Skiing & walking in the mountains and Thyroid disorders.
Julen support
12 December. 2025 FRIDAY,
07:00 – 08:30 – Breakfast
09:00- 09:30 – OPENNING CEREMONY
Prof. Dr. Rumen PANDEV- Local Organizer, Bulgaria
Mr. Stojcho Banenski – (Mayor of Bansko )
Prof.Dr. Nikola Vladov – (President of Bulgarian Surgical Society)
09:30- 10:10 – CONFERENCE “Diagnostic & Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma”
Chairs: Atakan Sezer, Edirne, Turkey & Ljube Ivkovski, Skopie, N. Macedonia
Lecturer #1– Highlights WCTC (Boston) 2025 – High Quality Thyroid Cancer Care- Challenges & Solutions – Kyriakos Vamvakidis, Athens, Greece (10 min)
Lecturer #2 – Highlights ESES Conference (Izmir) 2025 – Challenges in Endocrine Surgery – Ozer MAKAY, Izmir, Turkey (10 min)
Lecturer #3 – 2025 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer, Tatjana HAGIEVA , Sofia, Bulgaria (20 min)
10:10- 10:50 – CONFERENCE “Rare Thyroid Tumors”
Chairs: Ali Ilker FILIZ, Istanbul, Turkey & Angeliki Chorti, Thessaloniki, Greece
Lecturer #1– Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma- pitfalls in diagnosis & treatment – Theodosius Papavramidis, Thessaloniki, Greece (10 min)
Lecturer #2 – How to Improve Our Success in treatment of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma – Ioannis Koutelidakis, Thessaloniki, Greece (10 min)
Lecturer #3 – How to Improve Our Success in TOETVA treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma, Murat Özdemir, Izmir, Turkey (10 min)
Q & A / Discussion (10 min)
10:50- 11:20 – Coffee Break
11:20- 11:50 – CONFERENCE
Chairs: Rosen Dimov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria & Konstantinos Chaidas, Alexandroupoli, Greece
Lecturer #1– Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and malignancy. – Levan Ramishvili, Tbilisi, Georgia (10 min)
Lecturer #2 – Pediatric Thyroid Cancer – Sergii Cherenko, Kyiv, Ukraine (10 min)
Q & A / Discussion (10 min)
11:50-13:00 SPONSORED MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM- MERCK
Round Table Discussion “Dıagnostıc and Treatment of Thyroid Tumors”
Chairs: Ivica Smokoski, Stip, N. Macedonia & Radina Ivanova, Sofia, Bulgaria
Panelist: Rumen Pandev, Bojan Nonchev, Javor Asjov, Pavel Bochev
- Why Less is more – AS in low risk PTC- do we need thyroid hormone supplementation? R. Pandev (10 min)
- Substitution and Suppression therapy after RIA of TC ? P. Bochev (10 min)
- Post OP suppression Therapy after Hemi-Tx for low risk TC? B. Nonchev (10 min)
- “Case report”- Which Levothyroxine- tablets or solution – J. Asjov (10 min)
- Q&A / Discussion (15 min)
13:00- 14:00 – Lunch and Coffee Break
14:00- 14:40 – FORUM Multi-Disciplinary Tumor Board
Chairs: Zoran Dakic, Banja Luka, BOS. & HERZEGOVINA & Marchela Koleva, Sofia, Bulgaria
Lecturer #1– Hurthle Cell (Oncocytic) Thyroid Carcinoma – Nada Santrac, Belgrade, Serbia (10 min)
Lecturer #2 – Advanced Thyroid Cancer – treatment options – Nikolaos Roukounakis, Athens, Greece (10 min)
Lecturer #3 – Thyroid Ablation – RFA, Laser, Microwave – what we should know, Kostas Nastos, Athens, Greece (10 min)
Q & A / Discussion (10 min)
14:40- 16:00 – CONFERENCE “Thyroid Cancer Management”
Chairs: Anislav Gabarski, Pleven, Bulgaria & Yiğit Türk, Istanbul, Turkey
Lecturer #1– Thyroid Cancer Management- Merck presentation – Alexander Shinkov, Sofia, Bulgaria (30 min)
Lecturer #2 – Genetic Testing of Endocrine Tumors- Diagnostic and Prognostic Applications – Tihomir Todorov, Sofia, Bulgaria (30 min)
Q & A / Discussion (10 min)
16:00- 16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30- 17:00 – Coffee BSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH/COLLABORATION PROPOSALS SESSION by BBSreak
Nikolaos Voulkodakis, Thessaloniki, Greece (15 min)
Atakan Sezer, Edirne, Turkey (15 min)
19:00 – Gala Dinner Mehana “Makednoska Krachma” Dobrinishte
Transfer 18:30- Hotel “Four Points by Sheraton”- Bansko
BALKAN & BLACK SEA THYROID CANCER WORKING GROUP 