Welcome

This two day symposium is designed to highlight the multi-disciplinary management of breast cancer through plenary lectures, core presentations, panel discussions and case-based workshops tailored to the specific requirements of the target audience:

  • Overview of genetic assessment of breast cancer risk and further new understanding of genomics of breast cancer to help personalize treatment approach.
  • Appraise new modalities of breast imaging, biopsy techniques and pathologic assessment.
  • Acquire insight into key updates in the management of breast cancer including updates in radiation therapy, surgery and systemic therapy.
  • Develop understanding of new targets in breast cancer and focus on recent advances in treatment.

This symposium will be of interest to

  • medical, radiation, and surgical oncologists,
  • radiologists,
  • pathologists,
  • family physicians,
  • nurses and pharmacists

Keynote Speakers

Jose Baselga, MD, PhD
Associate Director of the MGH Cancer Center
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dennis R. Holmes, MD, F.A.C.S.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, University Southern
California Keck School of Medicine
Breast Surgeon, USC Kenneth Norris Comprehensive Cancer
Center and Hospital
Chief, Breast and Soft Tissue Tumor Surgery, 
Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center

Clifford A. Hudis, MD
Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

Monica Morrow, MD
Chief, Breast Service
Department of Surgery
Anne Burnett Windfohr Chair of Clinical Oncology
Professor of Surgery, Weill Medical College
of Cornell University
Visiting Speaker of the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,
Region 3 Advisory Committee

Torsten O. Nielsen MD/PhD, FRCPC
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Pathologist, Vancouver Hospital and BC Cancer Agency
Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health
Research

Wendy Woodward, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology,
Division of Radiation Oncology,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX

Giuseppe Viale MD, FRCPath
Professor of Pathology and Chairman,
University of Milan School of Medicine, Director
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
European Institute of Oncology,
Milan, Italy