Scientific Programme
19th june 2009
  New perspectives of radiotherapy
Chair: Roberto Orecchia
Rapporteur: Giovanni Ivaldi
08.15 Accelerated courses of external radiotherapy – John Dewar
08.30 Partial breast irradiation - Frank Vicini
08.45 Intraoperative radiotherapy – Roberto Orecchia
09.00 The potential use of proton beam in the treatment of breast cancer - Alphonse G. Taghian
09.15 Discussion
09.25 Spotlight:
St. Gallen 2009: Views and News – Alan S. Coates
  Endocrine treatments & more
Chair: Eric Winer
Rapporteur: Rosalba Torrisi
09.45 Tailoring endocrine therapies for premenopausal women – Ann H. Partridge
10.05 Advances in endocrine therapies for postmenopausal women – Ian E. Smith
10.25 Coffee Break
10.55 The challenge of treating endocrine responsive disease: overcoming resistance and choosing additional targets – Antonio C. Wolff
11.15 Discussion
11.25 Spotlight:
New strategies for better treatment outcome: combining and sequencing old and new therapies - Harold J. Burstein
11.45 The Milan Breast Cancer Observatory: Innovation and care in the next 12 months
Participants: Alan S. Coates - Viviana Galimberti - Aron Goldhirsch - Roberto Orecchia - Virgilio Sacchini - Giuseppe Viale
Chair: Alberto Costa
12.45 Lunch
  Targeted treatments
Chair: Harold Burstein
Rapporteur: Emilia Montagna
13.45 A basket full of new targeted treatments: How useful? – Eric Winer
14.05 Beyond trastuzumab and bevacizumab: other monoclonal antibodies with potential efficacy – Giuseppe Curigliano
14.25 Breast cancer with no apparent targets:“the triple negative” – Angelo Di Leo
14.45 Discussion
15.00 Coffee Break
  Preoperative systemic (cytotoxic and targeted) therapies
Chair: Aron Goldhirsch
Rapporteur: Alessandra Balduzzi
15.30 Is it important to insist on shrinking large operable tumors ? - Günter von Minckwitz
15.50 Preoperative therapies – the opportunity for understanding early effects of
breast cancer treatments – Christos Sotiriou
16.10 Endocrine responsiveness and the choice of neo-adjuvant treatment – Marco Colleoni
16.30 Discussion
16.45 Special Spotlight:
Minimal burden to breast cancers: how to approach? - Massimo Cristofanilli
Discussion: Franco Nolè
17.10 Closing remarks