Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer
Cairo • Egypt
11-14 February 2012
Extended early rate deadline:
21 December 2011
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Course Director
Philip Poortmans, Radiation Oncologist, Dr B Verbeeten Instituut, Tilburg (NL)
Teachers
Marianne Aznar, Physicist, The Finsen Center – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen (DK)
Liesbeth Boersma, Radiation Oncologist, MAASTRO Clinic, Maastricht (NL)
Sarah Darby, Epidemiologist, CTSU, Oxford (GB)
Youlia Kirova, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Curie, Paris (FR)
Thorsten Kühn, Gynaecologist, Breast Center, Klinikum Esslingen (DE)
Birgitte Offersen, Radiation Oncologist, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus (DK)
Georges Vlastos, Surgeon, Geneva University Hositals (CH)
Birgit Vriens, Medical Oncologist, University Hospital, Maastricht (NL)
Guest lecturers
Nadia Mokhtar, Pathologist, National Cancer Institute, Cairo (EG)
Dorria Salem, radiologist, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University (EG)
Contouring administrator
Sandra Hol, Radiation Technologist, Institute Verbeeten, Tilburg (NL)
Local organiser
Mohamed S. Zaghloul, Radiation Oncologist, Children's Cancer Hospital and National Cancer Institute - Cairo University (EG)
Course aims
This multidisciplinary course aims at promoting an integrated approach to the management of breast cancer. The goal is to individualise the treatment based on the clinical presentation, prognostic (tumour) factors and patient-related issues. Breast cancer is a very common cancer and its’ treatment involves several different health care professionals. In the last decades, we have seen first a change in the attitude towards the treatment as data on the effectiveness of systemic treatment came out, followed by a new shift towards optimising the use of loco-regional treatments in view of the long-term follow-up data of the EBCTCG. The challenge to integrate all treatments for every single patient appeals for an optimal cooperation between all specialities involved in the care of breast cancer. Against this background, radiation oncologists are currently fine-tuning the technical aspects of the delivery of radiotherapy, starting from optimal target volume definition. This urges for a refined collaboration with surgeons and pathologists.
The course will be very interactive through the integration of lectures, volume delineation workshops and patient management workshops and definitely multidisciplinary with a programme outlining the different treatments for breast cancer from evidence based medicine to ongoing research. The faculty includes a broad sample of the specialities involved in the management of breast cancer.
Target group
The course is primarily intended for specialists and trainees in the field of radiation oncology that are interested in extending their knowledge of the management of breast cancer. Other specialists active in the field of breast cancer and interested in an updated view of the possibilities of modern radiation oncology are very much invited to participate as well.
Educational programme
• Epidemiology: lessons from the past
• The role of imaging in diagnosis and treatment
• The role of pathology in diagnosis and treatment
• The clinically relevant aspects of the biology of breast cancer
• Primary surgery: choices and techniques (including oncoplastic)
• Axillary surgery including limitations of the SN concept
• Radiotherapy techniques
• Fractionation schedules
• Systemic treatment: interactions with RT; primary vs adjuvant
• Treatment of DCIS
• Treatment possibilities for locally advanced disease
• Accelerated partial breast irradiation
• Role of advanced treatment techniques including IMRT and breathing control
• Lessons from meta-analyses of clinical trials
• Cosmetic outcome after BCT
• Long-term effects
• Reconstructive surgery
• How to use Adjuvantonline, IBTR and IBR?
• Current clinical trials
• Target volume delineation including workshops
• Patient management workshops