Preliminary Program

GENERAL TOPICS

  • That population based breast cancer screening needs reform
  • Advanced breast cancer in 2015: Can it be cured? Are traditional approaches outdated? 
  • Breast cancer ‘2020’: New developments that will change breast cancer management

SYSTEMIC THERAPY TOPICS

  • Multigene assays for early breast cancer: Necessary or is traditional pathology adequate?
  • Current controversies in neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy
  • Controversies in adjuvant endocrine therapy 
  • Management of endocrine resistance
  • Controversies in patients with brain metastases
  • Controversies in the management of Her2 positive disease

LOCOREGIONAL THERAPY TOPICS

  • DCIS: Overdiagnosed and overtreated, or the key to reduction in breast cancer morbidity and mortality?
  • Optimising breast conservation: Better surgery, better RT, oncoplastic approaches?
  • The axilla in 2015 - Z11, AMAROS, MA20 - how do they all fit?
  • Reconstruction when post-mastectomy radiotherapy is required

SUPPORTIVE CARE TOPICS

  • Are breast care nurses patient navigators or agents of lifestyle change?
  • Status of survivorship/shared care planning