12th St.Gallen Breast Cancer Conference Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer
St.Gallen Oncology Conferences (SONK)
Judith Eberhardt
c/o Tumor and Breast Center ZeTuP
Rorschacherstr. 150
Phone +41 71 243 0023
Fax +41 71 245 6805
info@oncoconferences.ch
Scope of conference/participants
Participants will again be clinical oncologists from surgical, medical and radio-oncology background as well as
gynaecologists, pathologists, epidemiologists, breast care nurses, basic scientists, interested in breast cancer
development, diagnostics and early curative treatment.
Program/exhibition
There will mainly be invited lectures by top international experts and some selected proffered papers, as well
as lively discussions after each session. Extensive poster exhibition, up-to-date company-sponsored satellite
symposia and a large commercial exhibition.
Consensus panel 2011
Following a long standing tradition, the 2011 St.Gallen Breast Cancer Conference will end with an update of the
internationally unique interdisciplinary expert consensus panel on the optimal primary treatment of early breast
cancer – the longest-lasting and probably most important breast cancer consensus meeting world-wide.
Our Sessions 2011:
Biology of breast cancerI: Clinical relevance of biological findings/Genetics and prevention/Stroma and angiogenesis/Stem cells, mRNA, immunity
Diagnosis, screening and pathological assessment
Surgery for breast cancer: Focus on controversies
Local treatments, including radiation: Further evolution
Adjuvant systemic treatmentfor individual patients
Special Session: St.Gallen breast cancer experts’ panel: Seeking consensus on evidence and opinions about optimal treatment of early breast cancer
