BREAST MEDICINE NOW: Policy Priorities

Arrangement

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How can policy evolve to tackle problems faced? How can international cooperation be increased?

Program

10:00 – WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Gerard Dugdill, publishing director, Pink Ribbon; hand over to chair, Dr Kath Thompson, pharmaceutical physician and author, From Both Ends of the Stethoscope.

10:10 – SESSION 1. SCREENING: ACTION NOW

Looking at:

• Delays in screening.
• Waiting lists
• Policies to address the above

11:10 – SESSION 2. HOSPITAL & SURGERY: GET BACK ON TRACK

• Difficulties with face to face appointments and staffing
• Delays in surgery, imaging and reporting
• “Quality of life” procedures delayed

12:10 – BREAK FOR LUNCH AND NETWORKING

AFTERNOON

13:00 – SESSION 3. TRIALS: A MORE ROBUST SYSTEM

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

Drug markers and trials – what support do we need?

Dr Aleksandra Filopovic

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College, London

Q&A

14:00 – SESSION 4. WIDER DEBATE: NEW COLLABORATIONS

Theme: a question of language: new terminologies for chemotherapy

Alfred Neugut

Myron M Studner professor of cancer research (in medicine) and professor epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center

New challenges for the voluntary sector

Professor J Michael Dixon, OBE

Professor of Surgery & Consultant Surgeon
Clinical Director, Edinburgh Breast Cancer Now Research Group

15:00 CLOSE