Lung Cancer symposium

Congratulations to the Malaysian Thoracic Society on a very successful fully virtual Annual Congress on 10 to 13 December 2020, which I was privileged to participate in.

Well done to Dr Rozanah Abd Rahman, Organising Chairperson, Dr Lalitha Pereirasamy, (Chairperson Adult Scientific Programme for my session) and the other MTS Congress 2020 Organisers (2020.mts.org.my/committee) for their excellent work:

Assoc Prof Dr Pang Yong Kek Dr Asiah Kassim Dr N Fafwati Faridatul Akmar Mohammad Dr Eg Kah Peng Dr Helmy Haja Mydin Dr Zamzurina Abu Bakar Dr Syazatul Syakirin Sirol Aflah Dr Fauzi Mohd Anshar Dr Jiunn Liang Tan Assoc Prof Dr Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail Dr Narasimman Sathiamurthy Dr Rashidah Yasin Dr Hooi Lai Ngoh Dr Su Siew Choo Dr Jessie De Bruyne Dr Jessie Anne de Bruyne Dr Nurhayati Mohd Marzuki Dr Su Siew Choo

Dr Lim Wei Juan Dr Bazli Bahar Dr Noor Aliza Md Tarekh Dr Razman Shamsudin Dr Ng Yong Siang Dr Kuan Yeh Chunn Dr Nur Laily Md Yatim Dr Izyan Saleha Ibrahim Dr Tee Koh Soon Dr Ashwin Ramachandran Ms Che Juliana Che Ab Aziz Mrs Widyawati Kasban Mrs Siti Faiza Dehan Mr Samad Alias Mr Mohd Saiful Farid Mohd Jumain Mr Nor Aizie Muhamad Ms Nazuha Radzi & Ms Saidatul Nursyida Mat Rahim of the MTS Secretariat

I was not able to attend all the wonderful sessions but the oral presentations I was privileged to hear were very high quality and to me reflects a vibrant scientific and research community, undertaking world class research to help us all achieve lung health, in keeping with the APSR vision and mission. It was a therefore a wonderful collaboration for the first ever joint MTS-APSR joint Congress Symposium and hopefully many more to follow.

And congrats to all the presenters who worked so hard (your turn will come) and to the ones who this year were selected for awards; mts.org.my/HOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS/MTS-Congress-2020-Awards. My allocated session was incredibly informative thanks to the very high quality presentations which I enjoyed with co-judges; Professor Dr Mohammed Fauzi bin Abdul Rani and Dr Renato Cutrera.

Terima Kasih MTS for the honour of participating and learning from your first ever virtual Congress which went very well and smoothly with great preparation and rehearsal, another great success for the MTS.

It was unusual time with COVID-19 pandemic that we attended the Malaysian Thoracic Society Annual Congress 11 December 2020 with virtual presentation and sharing on the MTS-APSR Joint Symposium on Lung Cancer.

Dr Fong presented updates on the management of lung nodules, Dr Lam presented management of pulmonary toxicity from immunotherapy in lung cancer and Dr Sihoe presented updates on the management of ground-glass opacity.

We were all delighted to enjoy the smooth running of the programme and we would like to thank Dr Liam Chong Kin and Dr Soon Hin How for chairing the sessions for us.

It had not been an easy job for the Organizing Committee for running this successful virtual congress in the unusual time of COVID-19 pandemic.

We would like to thank the Malaysian Thoacic Society, the President Dr Y K Pang and the Organizing Committee for allowing us to join this MTS Congress 2020 and we look forward to seeing colleagues again on more joint activities between MTS and APSR.