Scientific Programme
23rd june 2006
RADIATION THERAPY: WHEN, HOW FOR WHOM
Chair: R. Orecchia
Rapporteur: G. Gatti
8.15 Innovations in Intraoperative Electron beams radiotherapy
R. Orecchia
8.30 Candidates for Intraoperative Photons radiotherapy
J.S. Vaidya
8.45 Brachytherapy: the new parameters
C. Polgar
9.00 IART: a perspective new development
G. Paganelli
9.15 Discussion
ENDOCRINE ADJUVANT THERAPIES: ONGOING RESEARCH. DO WE HAVE NEW STANDARDS?
Chair: E. Bajetta
Rapporteur: E. Munzone
9.30 Aromatase inhibitors for whom, when and how long?
E. Winer
9.45 How to treat young women with operated breast cancer?
N. Davidson
10.00 Economical implications
B. Hillner
10.15 Discussion
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 SPOTLIGHT
HER2/NEU: TAILORING TARGETED TREATMENTS
A. Goldhirsch
11.20 The Milan Breast Cancer Observatory:
Innovation and care in the next 12 months
 
Participants:
 F. Cardoso - A. Coates - N. Davidson - V. Galimberti
A. Goldhirsch - K. Sandelin - D. Slamon - E. Winer

Chair: A. Costa
12.20 Lunch
13.30 SPOTLIGHT:
Innovations in bone management for women
with breast cancer
R. E. Coleman
PREOPERATIVE SYSTEMIC THERAPIES: TAILORED APPROACH
Chair: A. Coates
Rapporteur: R. Torrisi
13.50 Criteria for selecting preoperative systemic therapies for women with operable breast cancer
L. Gianni
14.05 Tailored preoperative systemic therapies: what and for how long?
M. Colleoni
14.20 Discussion
ADJUVANT TREATMENT FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Chair: F. Boccardo
Rapporteur: F. Peccatori
14.35 Women with autoimmune disease
S. Bernatsky
14.50 Women with cognitive disorders
A. Coates
15.05 Breast cancer in lymphoma survivors
S. Cinieri
15.20 Discussion
15.35 Coffee Break
APPROACHING COMPLICATIONS OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER AND PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES. WHAT’S NEW?
Chair: N. Davidson
Rapporteur: G. Sanna
16.05 Surgery in bone metastases: something new?
A.P. Daolio
16.20 CNS metastatic involvement
E. Winer
16.35 Paraneoplastic syndromes
G. Curigliano
16.50 Discussion
Symposium
THE OLDER WOMAN WITH BREAST CANCER
Chair: A. Surbone
Rapporteur: S. Dellapasqua
17.05 Clinical challenges in treating elderly breast cancer patients: myth or reality?
N. Davidson
17.20 Overview of ongoing trials in elderly breast cancer patients: US and European perspectives
M. Extermann
17.35 Discussion and Closing remarks