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BIG Meetings

BIG & TRANSBIG Meetings
23 - 24 March 2010
To coincide with: EBCC-7, 24 – 27 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain

BIG General Assembly
6 June 2010
To coincide with: ASCO 2010 Annual Meeting, 4 - 8 June 2010, Chicago (IL), USA

TRANSBIG Patients' Workshop

Breast cancer: whom to treat and how to treat?
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 19.30 - 21.30
Barcelona,Spain

As part of its educational activities, TRANSBIG is organising a free workshop for the general public in Barcelona on the occasion of the European Breast Cancer Conference EBCC-7. The workshop, held in Spanish, will focus on the individualisation of decisions for treating breast cancer patients and present the latest in breast cancer surgery, adjuvant therapy and radiotherapy. A Q&A session is foreseen at the end of the workshop, to allow the public to ask questions to experts from different fields directly.

Workshop programme

Presentations
- What’s new in chemo-, endocrine and biological therapies?
   Serena Di Cosimo
- What’s new in breast cancer surgery?
   Isabel Rubio
- What’s new in radiotherapy?
   Blanca Farrús
- How to individualise decisions for breast cancer patients? The example of the MINDACT trial
   Isabel Rúbio

Ask the experts: questions & answers session
- Medical oncology: Serena Di Cosimo (Vall d’Hebron) and Miguel Gil (Hospital ICO)
- Surgery: Isabel Rubio
- Plastic surgery: Jaume Masià (Hospital Sant Pau)
- Radiotherapy: Blanca Farrús (Hospital Clínic)
- Genetics: Elena Aguirre (Hospital Arnau y Vilanova)
- Cancer advocate: Montserrat Domènech i Maria (President Grup Agata)
- TRANSBIG scientist, MINDACT principal investigator: Fatima Cardoso (Institut Jules Bordet)

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