All presentations in the APGCC x JGCA Joint Session are by invitation only, and abstract submissions are not open to the public.

Note

Abstracts from overseas presenters will be accepted collectively through our co-hosted congress, JGCA2026.
Submitted abstracts will be officially recognized as part of the programs of both APGCC2026 and JGCA2026, and will be counted toward the official participation record of both congresses.

APGCC×JGCA Joint session

Asian Consensus with IGCA
Improving early non-cardia gastric cancer detection in low to moderate prevalence regions

Chair	Fumiaki Ishibashi	(Department of Gastroenterology, International University of Health and Welfare Ichikawa Hospital, Japan)
	Rapat Pittayanon	(Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
	Vo Duy Long	(University Medical Center at Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam)

Special Comment	Han-Kwang Yang	(National Cancer Center, KOREA, Korea)

Panel discussion
To whom, when, and how should gastric cancer screening be offered?

Chair	Chika Kusano	(Department of Gastroenterology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan)
	Joo Ha Hwang	(Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University, United States)

Panel discussion
MIS for advanced gastric cancer

Chair	Souya Nunobe	(Department of Gastric Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japan)
	Hyuk-Joon LEE	(Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Republic of Korea)

Panel discussion
Developing optimal surgical procedure for EGJ cancer

Chair	Satoru Matsuda	(Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
	Simon Law	(Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Panel discussion
Treatment of gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis

Chair	Hiroharu Yamashita	(Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Japan)
	Bok-Yan, Jimmy So	(Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Plenary lecture	Bok-Yan, Jimmy So	(Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Panel discussion
Perioperative chemotherapy strategies for locally advanced, oligo metastastatic, and borderline resectable gastric cancer

Chair	Takahiro Kinoshita	(Department of Gastric Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan)

Panel discussion
Conversion Surgery for metastatic GC

Chair	Takaki Yoshikawa	(Department of Gastric Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan)
	Florian Heinrich Konrad Lordick	(Department of Oncology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Germany)