Scientific Programme
22nd june 2007
FUTURE OF SURGERY AND CLASSIFICATION
Chair: Stefano Zurrida
Rapporteur: Oreste Gentilini
8.15 Extended indications for sentinel node biopsy procedures and internal mammary node assessment
Paolo Veronesi
8.35 What is the best treatment for lobular invasive carcinoma?
Viviana Galimberti
8.50 Preservation of breast image:
a new avenue in breast surgery
Jean Yves Petit
9.05 Future evolution of the TNM: concrete approaches
Umberto Veronesi
9.20 Discussion
RADIATION THERAPY:
WHEN, HOW, FOR WHOM

Chair: Patrizia Olmi
Rapporteur: Maria Cristina Leonardi
9.35 The rationale for Partial Breast Irradiation:
the Intraoperative Electron beams radiotherapy (ELIOT)
Roberto Orecchia
9.50 ELIOT plus accelerated external radiotherapy
Giovanni Ivaldi
10.05 The use of proton beams in the treatment of breast cancer
Alphonse Taghian
10.20 Discussion
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 SPOTLIGHT
Assessing margins of excision: what is it all about?
Umberto Veronesi
11.20 The Milan Breast Cancer Observatory:
Innovation and care in the next 12 months
 
Participants:
Leslie Ford
Aron Goldhirsch
Paul Goss
Virgilio Sacchini
Alphonse Taghian

Chair: Alberto Costa
12.20 Lunch
13.30 SPOTLIGHT:
The breast cancer survivors
Antonella Surbone
13.40 SPOTLIGHT:
Cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survival
Thomas Suter
ENDOCRINE ADJUVANT THERAPIES:
NEW STANDARDS AND NEW AVENUES

Chair: Paul Goss
Rapporteur: Silvia Dellapasqua
14.00 The evolving chapter of adjuvant aromatase inhibitors
Paul Goss
14.15 Ovarian function ablation and being a woman:
how to reconcile?
Antonio C. Wolff
14.30 What would I want to know more about duration of adjuvant endocrine therapies
James Ingle
14.45 Discussion
CHEMOTHERAPY, HER2/NEU AND OTHER TARGETED THERAPIES
Chair: Antonella Surbone
Rapporteur: Rosalba Torrisi
15.00 Adjuvant trastuzumab and beyond
Stefan Glück
15.15 New information on HER2/neu and new targeted therapies
Rosalba Torrisi
15.30 Taxing the taxanes in adjuvant setting
Angelo Di Leo
15.45 Discussion
16.00 Coffee Break
SYSTEMIC THERAPIES: SPECIAL ISSUES
Chair: Antonio C. Wolff
Rapporteur: Laura Orlando
16.30 Tailored preoperative systemic therapy:
new aspects for targeting treatments
Marco Colleoni
16.45 The axillary lymph node metastases with no primary breast cancer: what to do?
Virgilio Sacchini
17.00 Discussion and Closing remarks