Advanced International Breast Cancer Course

Padua

Dal 11.11.2013 al 13.11.2013

Presentation

Breast cancer is the first lethal, common, and chronic disease where treatment can significantly reduce mortality. This success is the result of impressive advances in the knowledge of breast cancer biology, molecular characterization of the disease, screening programs, advanced imaging, multimodal local therapies and molecularly targeted drugs. Nowadays, breast cancer represents the frontrunner in the path from comparative effectiveness, where new therapeutic interventions are implemented on the basis of “average” benefit, to personalized cancer medicine where the right treatment is provided to the right patient at the right moment. An updated, multifaceted approach to our patients is now becoming more and more demanding and with these goals in mind, the Programme of this international Conference includes lectures on the molecular characterization of primary and metastatic tumors, update management of early and advanced disease, strategies to overcome resistance to available therapies, innovative therapies, and multimodal treatments for advanced disease. Clinical case discussions and debates are also planned to discuss topics which require a multifaceted approach or are matter of controversy.
This 9th Breast Cancer Conference includes a highly qualified international faculty, but will mantain its characteristics of a friendly forum where opinion leaders and attendees will exchange experiences and share the most exciting advances. In order to reward scientific excellence and to foster international cooperation, the International Scientific Committee of the 9th AIBCC will award the University of Padua Award for Advances in Breast Cancer 2013 to a scientist who has published a breakthrough paper in the previous year and the Monica Boscolo Research Grant to an Italian scientist for a research project to be conducted in cooperation with a foreign institution.
We welcome medical oncologists, pathologists, breast surgeons, radiation oncologists and basic scientists to listen to breast cancer leaders and to exchange experiences in a friendly atmosphere.

Lunedì 11 novembre alle ore 18.30 a Palazzo del Bo ci sarà la seguente Cerimonia di presentazione:
“Award for Advances Breast Cancer 2013 and the Monica Boscolo Research Grant”.