Expert/Patient Roundtables

In close collaboration with experts, patients and the SPAGN board, SPAGN identifies specific topics and brings the key players together to discuss and form a common statement or publication to address the topic and spread knowledge.

Recent roundtables were:

  • "Genetic Predispositions in Sarcomas" Roundtable
    November 11, 2025, Boca Raton, USA

Ahead of CTOS 2025, over 70 experts and patient advocates gathered to discuss inherited factors linked to sarcoma and key clinical guidance needs. Outcomes will contribute to a global consensus paper planned for 2026.

  • LMS Roundtable
    Held from October 16 - 17 in Berlin/Germany (Hotel Pullmann Berlin Schweizerhof - Room Davos 2, Budapester Str. 25, 10787)

  • TGCT Consensus Initiative
    June 21, 2022, Frankfurt. Global consensus paper has been submitted.

  • Leiomyosarcoma Research Roundtable
    Held for the first time September 14, 2019 in Miami, USA; October 3, 2020, virtually; last meeting October 21&22, 2022 as a hybrid meeting

  • Roundtable on Desmoids – outcome: Update of Desmoid Consensus Paper – published in "Annals of Oncology"
    February 23, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany

  • Roundtable/Exchange in Generic Imatinib with CML Community and PD Dr. Peter Reichardt
    July 15, 2015 in Munich, Germany
  • Roundtable on Desmoids – outcome: Desmoid Consensus Paper – published by the European Journal of Cancer
    May 8, 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Roundtable on Pediatric and Wild-Type GIST
    October 22, 2013 in London, UK