Scientific Programme
20th june 2008
Radiation therapy: re-designing extent and duration
Chair: D. Wazer
Rapporteur: B. Jereczek-Fossa
8.15 Partial Breast Irradiation: gaining evidence for proper use
D. Wazer
8.30 Intraoperative Electron beams radiotherapy (ELIOT)
R. Orecchia
8.45 IART as a boost for accelerated breast irradiation
G. Paganelli
9.00 Radiotherapy  in postmenopausal women after breast conserving surgery
C. Tinterri
9.15 Discussion
9.25 Spotlight:
Extending breast conservation: oncoplastic surgery techniques and indications.
K. Clough
  Adjuvant systemic therapies: tailored therapies for improved use
Chair: R. Gelber
Rapporteur: V. Bagnardi - L. Orlando
9.45 Adjuvant therapies and expectations from gene profiling
F. Cardoso
10.00 Tailoring adjuvant therapies for tumours with at least some endocrine responsiveness: tumour and host characteristics & quality of life considerations
A. S. Coates
10.15 Chemotherapies for endocrine non responsive disease
A. Di Leo
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Endocrine therapies for women with endocrine responsive disease
R. Torrisi
11.15 Is preoperative adjuvant treatment for operable disease useful?
H. Burstein
11.30 Discussion
11.40 Spotlight:
Breast cancer cells and their growth factors: lessons on networking.
Y. Yarden
12.00 The Milan Breast Cancer Observatory:
Innovation and care in the next 12 months

Participants: F. Cardoso, K. Clough, A. Coates, A. Di Leo, A. Goldhirsch, E. Winer
Chair:A. Goldhirsch
12.50 Lunch
  Targeted treatments: facts and promises
Chair: E. Winer
Rapporteur: E. Munzone
13.45 HER2 targeted therapy: current status
E. Perez
14.00 Aiming at breast cancer cells: new targets and new agents
E. Winer
14.15 Angiogenesis as target for therapy for advanced and operable breast cancer
F. Bertolini
14.30 Using metronomic therapies to target cancer continuously: challenging the concept of low dose = induction of resistance
M. Colleoni
14.45 Discussion
  How to follow breast cancer survivors?
Chair: A. S. Coates
Rapporteur: R. Torrisi
15.00 Follow up with clinical, laboratory and imaging means: the necessary, the reasonable and the useful
S. Ciatto
15.15 Issues of life style and psychological support for breast cancer survivors (by age group)
H. Burstein
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Coffee Break
  The very young woman with breast cancer
Chair: A. Partridge
Rapporteur: M. Locatelli
16.15 Local control of disease
O. Gentilini
16.30 Fertility issues and treatments for breast cancer
A. Partridge
16.45 Pregnancy and breast cancer
F. Peccatori
17.00 Discussion and closing remarks