Breast Medicine Now Webinar

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.

1. Pandemic-related issues: (a) screening, diagnosis and treatment of primary breast cancer and (b) diagnosis, continuing monitoring and treatment of secondary breast cancer
2. Pre-existing issues: lack of innovative new therapy for secondary breast cancer (still classed as ‘incurable’)

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

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

Topic:
The view from Africa: what’s happened, what needs to happen?

Speaker:
Dr. Mrs Beatrice Wiafe, consultant breast surgeon and advocate, Peace & Love hospitals, Ghana, Africa

Topic:
Where do things stand, what do we need?

Speaker:
Jo Taylor, ABC Diagnosis

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

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

Topic:
New challenges for the voluntary sector – a system fit for purpose

Speaker:
Professor J Michael Dixon, OBE
Professor of Surgery & Consultant Surgeon
Clinical Director, Edinburgh Breast Cancer Now Research Group