Breast Medicine Now - Webinar
SESSION ONE: Where are we now?
00:00 Welcome and introduction. Gerard Dugdill, publishing director, Pink Ribbon;
hand over to chair: Dr Kathleen Thompson, pharmaceutical physician and author, From Both Ends of the Stethoscope – Getting Through Breast Cancer By A Doctor Who Knows.
11:20 Topic:
Experiences from the Royal Liverpool: screening levels, delays and the “worried well”: some practical advice.
Speaker:
Geraldine Mitchell, consultant breast surgeon; with perspectives from Cancer Alliance
SESSION TWO: Further international perspectives
33:12 Topic:
Where is the policy headed – EU perspective? Perspectives from a European clinic. Intro to clinic and proton therapy, referrals, current status of treatments in EU, collaboration.
Speaker:
Vladimír Vondráček, Vlastimil Roun & colleagues, Proton Therapy Clinic, Prague, Czech Republic
1:00:30 Topic:
The view from Africa: what’s happened, what needs to happen?
Speaker:
Dr. Mrs Beatrice Wiafe, MD, PhD, President and Founder, Breast Care International; CEO, Peace and Love Hospitals. Ghana, Africa
SESSION THREE: Towards future therapies
01:40:40 Topic:
Where do things stand, what do we need?
Speaker:
Jo Taylor, ABC Diagnosis
01:49:05 Topic:
Drug markers and trials: towards a more robust system
Speaker:
Dr Aleksandra Filipovic, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College, London
SESSION FOUR: New challenges
02:19:22 Mini-panel:
What does “palliative chemotherapy” mean in the modern era, a trans-Atlantic perspective?
Speaker:
Alfred Neugut, Myron M Studner professor of cancer research (in medicine) and professor epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center
with
Dr Chris Twelves, Professor of Clinical Cancer Pharmacology and Oncology, Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds Hon Consultant Medical Oncologist and Clinical Director, Leeds NIHR Clinical Research Facility, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
02:35:59 Topic:
The last word – post covid issues in breast cancer moving forward…
Speaker:
Professor J Michael Dixon, OBE, Professor of Surgery & Consultant Surgeon; Clinical Director, Edinburgh Breast Cancer Now Research Group
