Scientific Programme
18th june 2009
08.15 Welcome and Opening
  Cancer Stem Cells
Chair: Pier Giuseppe Pelicci
Rapporteur: Giuseppina Bonizzi
08.30 Mammary stem and progenitor cells:
understanding the cellular context of breast tumours – John Stingl
08.45 Relevance of the molecular identity of human normal breast stem cells to
the heterogeneity of breast cancers – Salvatore Pece
09.00 Stem and progenitor cells as signposts for therapeutic targets in breast cancer - Geoff Lindeman
09.15 Discussion
 

New molecules for chemoprevention
Chair: Bernardo Bonanni
Rapporteur: Aliana Guerrieri Gonzaga

09.25 Can you teach an old dog new tricks?:
Vitamin D and breast cancer prevention – Pamela Goodwin
09.40 Endocrine therapies for prevention – Andrea Decensi
09.55 Evaluating new targets for novel approaches in prevention – Nicole Karen Johnson
10.10 Discussion
10.20 Coffee Break
10.50 Spotlight:
Diet: is it important for breast cancer prevention? Peter Boyle
  New imaging for screening
Chair: Enrico Cassano
Rapporteur: Francesca Abbate
11.10 Relying on ultrasound – Giorgio Rizzatto
11.25 Improved breast imaging with MRI: is it ready for screening? – Elizabeth A. Morris
11.40 Long term results of women submitted to intensive yearly control – Patrick Maisonneuve
11.55 Discussion
12.05 Live Surgery with commentary
Speaker: Mattia Intra
13.00 Lunch
  Breast surgery: innovations
Chair: Umberto Veronesi
Rapporteur: Oreste Gentilini
14.00 Optimizing surgical approaches for multifocal and multicentric cancers:
the nipple sparing mastectomy – Umberto Veronesi
14.15 Radioguided surgical treatment of non palpable tumours – Alberto Luini
14.30 Outcome of treatment of very early carcinomas – Stefano Zurrida
14.45 Discussion
14.55 Spotlight:
Is breast cancer surgery becoming more conservative or more radical? – Hiram S. Cody III
  Pathology
Chair: Giuseppe Viale
Rapporteur: Mauro Mastropasqua
15.15 DIN 1, 2, 3 – Farid Moinfar
15.30 Triple negative & basal like - Ian Ellis
15.45 Lymphoma of the breast – Giancarlo Pruneri
16.00 Salivary type & other rare types – Vincenzo Eusebi
16.15 Discussion
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Special Spotlight:
“Is adjuvant chemotherapy needed and for whom? – Stefan Aebi
“How to approach data from past trials for the best adjuvant treatment choice in the present? – Richard D. Gelber
Closing remarks: Eric Winer
17.40 Satellite Symposia