Breast cancer meeting 2018

This one-day programme provides an update on recent developments in locoregional and systemic therapies for breast cancer. Topics include partial breast, internal mammary chain, and pre-mastectomy irradiation, stereotactic radiotherapy for oligometastatic disease, endocrine therapy duration, systemic therapy & immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer, and finally a debate on the role of protons.

Meeting organisers: Dr Anna Kirby and Professor David Dodwell

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Programme

Tuesday 25 September 2018

Time		Speaker
09:30	Registration
09:50	Welcome and introduction	Dr Anna Kirby, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton
Radiotherapy
10:00	Partial breast radiotherapy: who, when and how?	Dr Charlotte Coles, Cambridge University
10:30	All you need to know about implementing internal mammary chain radiotherapy	Dr Anna Kirby, Royal Marsden and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton
11:00	Radiotherapy and reconstruction: time for RT to go first?	Dr Suzy Cleator, Imperial Healthcare, London
11:30	Coffee
11:50	Stereotactic radiotherapy for oligometastatic disease in breast cancer	Dr Gerry Hanna, Queen’s University Hospital, Belfast
12:15	Improving treatments in early breast cancer: is the era of the randomised controlled trial over?	Professor David Dodwell, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
12:45	Lunch
Systemic therapy
13:30	Endocrine therapy: 5yrs vs10yrs and how to manage the side-effects	Dr Marina Parton, Royal Marsden, London
14:00	Update on systemic therapy for triple-negative breast cancer	Professor Andrew Tutt, Guy’s and St. Thomas’s, London
14:30	Immunotherapy for breast cancer	Professor Peter Schmid, Barts Cancer Institute, London
15:00	Tea
15:20	Debate: This house believes that protons have (almost) no role in breast cancer management For: Professor David Dodwell, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Against: Professor Karol Sikora, Chief Medical Officer, Proton Partners International
16:10	Vote
16:20	Final remarks and meeting close	Professor David Dodwell, Leeds Cancer Centre

Contact us

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Professional Learning and Development
The Royal College of Radiologists
63 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3JW

email: conf@rcr.ac.uk

Tel: 020 7406 5942

Booking

Registration fees:

Consultant member: £204
Consultant non-member: £252
Trainee member: £140
Trainee non-member: £184
Retired member: £140
Allied healthcare professionals and nurses: £140
Lay members, medical students and patients: £140
Industry: £275

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The Royal College of Radiologists

63 Lincoln's Inn Fields

London

WC2A 3JW

United Kingdom

Cancellation

Delegates wishing to cancel or transfer a place on a meeting:

On or before Monday 13 August 2018: Will be entitled to transfer their fee to another meeting within 12 months or a refund minus a £15 administration fee
Between Tuesday 14 August 2018 and Monday 10 September 2018: Will be entitled to transfer their fee to another meeting within 12 months or a refund minus a £25 administration fee
On or after Tuesday 11 September 2018: No transfer or refund permitted

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