The 6th Seminar of PRC and EAPC RN was held in Banff, Canada 1-3 December 2016. This was the first time the seminar was arranged outside of Europe.

The GW Hanks lecture was awarded to Professor Robin Fainsinger, who received the honours from local organisers Konrad Fassbender and Vickie Baracos.

Presentations from the seminar:

• Stein Kaasa: Key questions
• Robin Fainsinger – GW Hanks lecture: Adventures in transatlantic palliative care research – using experience to navigate around icebergs
• Stein Kaasa: International multicentre studies – challenges and solutions
• Rebecca Wong: Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Group: Experience and emerging themes
• Per Sjøgren: A fast track transition from oncological treatment to continuing palliative care at home: an RCT (The DOMUS study)
• Jon Håvard Loge: Depression in advanced cancer: pitfalls and possible solutions
• Augusto Caraceni: Early systematic palliative care versus on demand palliative care for advanced pancreatic cancer
• Breffni Hannon: The impact of early palliative care on quality of death and bereavement: an exploratory analysis
• Kirsten Wentlandt: Do physicians anticipate and support non-malignant deaths in hospital?
• Sharon Watanabe: Variation on frequency and timing of palliative care consultation in patients with advanced cancer receiving care at a tertiary cancer centre
• Camilla Zimmermann: Early palliative care trials: from methodology to practice
• Konrad Fassbender: An evidence-based approach to knowledge translation and change management in advance care planning
• Daren Heyland: Clinical research in palliative care in an age of collaboration and innovation: Together we can do bigger and better!
• Augusto Caraceni: Challenges posed by cancer pain clinical trials
• Vickie Baracos: A new era of therapeutics for cancer cachexia
• Mie Nordly: The effect of specialized palliative care in cancer. A systematic review
• Kathi Mooney: Enhancing well-being and improved symptom outcomes during advanced cancer through family caregiver support
• Gordana Popovic: Agreement between physician and patient performance status ratings in an outpatient setting
• Anne Tove Brenne: Use of standardized care pathways in palliative care for cancer patients
• Christine Ritchie: The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group: a flourishing community of research and investigator development
• Stein Kaasa: Closing comments