Scientific Programme
17th june 2010
08:15 Welcome and Opening
  Genetics today
Chair: Andrea Decensi
Rapporteur: Monica Barile
08:30 High-risk genes for breast cancer: the genetic “Foucault pendulum” – Judy Garber
08:45 High risk clinic: follow-up of healthy individuals with genetic predisposition to breast cancer – Bernardo Bonanni
09:00 Potentially useful treatment proposals for predisposition gene carriers - Rowan T. Chlebowski
09:15 Discussion
 

Prevention
Chair: Bernardo Bonanni
Rapporteur: Aliana Guerrieri-Gonzaga

09:30 The impact of lifestyle - Pamela J. Goodwin
09:45 New endocrine agents for prevention of breast cancer – Jack Cuzick
10:00 Metabolic syndrome and breast cancer prevention – Andrea Decensi
10:15 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Spotlight:
Androgen receptors: prognostic and therapeutic relevance
Antonio C. Wolff
  Progress in imaging
Chair: Pietro Panizza
Rapporteur: Maria Pizzamiglio
11:20 MRI and ultrasound dynamic coregistrationGiorgio Rizzatto
11:35 Breast imaging with MRI: how to use? – Pietro Panizza
11:50 PET scans in staging and treatment – Norbert Avril
12:05 Carcinomas discovered only by images: total curability? – Laszlo Tabar
12:20 Discussion
12:35 Lunch
13:35 Live Surgery with commentary
Speaker: Mattia Intra
  New avenues in local treatment
Chair: Virgilio Sacchini
Rapporteur: Paolo Arnone
14:35 Oncoplastic approaches: progress? – Krishna Clough
14:50 New policy for sentinel node biopsy – Paolo Veronesi
15:05 Breast conservation after local recurrence – Oreste Gentilini
15:20 Radiation therapy after breast reconstruction - Lori J. Pierce
15:35 Breast surgery in metastatic disease – Emil J. Th. Rutgers
15:50 Discussion
16:05 Coffee break
16:30 Spotlight:
Circulating stem cells
Richard J. Cote
  Pathology
Chair: Richard J. Cote
Rapporteur: Giancarlo Pruneri
16:50 A, B, C of breast pathology – Frédérique Penault-Llorca
17:05 Triple negative & basal like – Barry A. Gusterson
17:20 The new TNM classification – Stefano Zurrida
17:35 Discussion
17:50 Spotlight:
Genetic profiling: clinically useful or expensive and superfluous
Giuseppe Viale
18:10 Satellite Symposia