Breast Cancer Management 2013

Key Topics

• Optimal multidisciplinary approach to allow patients to achieve successful breast conservation
• Prevention, epidemiology and surveillance options
• Optimal breast surveillance screening including MRI and ultrasound, mammography and minimally invasive biopsy methods
• Key factors for accurate pathology interpretation
• Timing of sentinel node biopsy in patient receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• Oncoplastic surgical approaches to allow for successful cancer control while maintaining normal breast appearance including nipple sparing mastectomy
• Recommendations for adjuvant systemic chemotherapy and hormonal therapy
• Approaches for treating triple negative breast cancer
• Rationale of pre-surgical trials to help evaluate promising therapeutic agents
• Indication for neoadjuvant chemotherapy and patient selection
• Radiation therapy approaches for breast conservation and post-mastectomy including the role for partial breast irradiation
• The role of individual tumor assessment using genetic analysis to allow for personalized approach to systemic therapy recommendations
• Psychological approach for optimal patient decision making
• Current surgical and medical management of metastatic breast cancer
• Increasing recruitment of a diverse patient population to clinical trials

Who should Attend

Obstetricians, primary care physicians, internists, gynecologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, gynecological oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, nurses, and any other clinicians involved in the management and treatment of patients with breast cancer.