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16th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2019Primary Therapy of Women with Early Breast Cancer.   Evidence, Controversies, Consensus

20 – 23 March 2019,  Austria Center, Vienna / Austria

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InvitationThe International Scientific Committee and the  Organising Chairs 2019 invite you again to another (16th) «St. Gallen International Breast Cancer   Conference» in Vienna / Austria. Experts of virtually all major breast cancer cooperative groups and centers world-wide, actively engaged in basic and clinical  research as well as in clinical management of  patients with breast cancer, will again present their latest data, critically reviewed by leading specialists in the field. The conference closes as usual with an update of the widely acknowledged «St. Gallen  International Consensus on the optimal Primary Treatment of Women with Early Breast Cancer».

Organising and Scientific Chairs 2019Hans-Jörg Senn (Switzerland)Beat Thürlimann (Switzerland)Giuseppe Curigliano (Italy)Martine Piccart-Gebhart (Belgium)Meredith Regan (USA)Eric Winer (USA)

Faculty 2019Around 70 invited top breast cancer specialists from major breast cancer study groups and centers world-wide.

ParticipantsAround 3000 breast cancer oriented surgeons, gynaecologists, medical- and radio-oncologists, pathologists, epidemiologists and breast cancer nurses from over 100 countries worldwide.  

VenueAustria Center Vienna (ACV)Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1AT-1220 Vienna / Austria

Important deadlines31 August 2018: Opening poster abstract submission and grant application on www.oncoconferences.ch/BCC15 December 2018: Closing poster abstract submission and grant application20 December 2018: Closing early rate registration, regular fee applies1 March 2019: Closing regular registration, late fee applies

RegistrationRegister on www.oncoconferences.ch/BCC and visit our  website for updated information regarding program,  faculty and venue.

Registration feesRegular 

 participantResidents, 

nurses

Early bird fee from1 June 2018

750.– Euro 450.– Euro

Regular fee from 20 December 2018

900.– Euro 650.– Euro

Late fee from1 March 2019

1050.– Euro 1050.– Euro

Contact for Industrial exhibition, satellite symposia, registration, hotel accommodation, networking programme, abstract submissionMondial Congress & EventsMondial GmbH & Co. KGOperngasse 20b, AT-1040 Vienna, Austriaphone +43 (0) 1 58804 0, fax +43 (0) 1 58804 185bcc19@mondial-congress.com, www.oncoconferences.ch/BCC

Contact forScientific programme, faculty, grantsSt. Gallen Oncology Conferences «SG-BCC 2019»c/o Tumor and Breast Center ZeTuPRorschacherstrasse 150CH-9006 St. Gallen, Switzerlandphone: +41 (0) 71 243 00 32, fax +41 (0) 245 68 05info@oncoconferences.ch, www.oncoconferences.ch/BCC 

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Wednesday, 20 March 2019

10.30 – 14.00 h  Satellite Symposia

14.15 – 15.30 h   Opening Ceremony; Award Ceremonies:

St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Award lecture by Monica Morrow (USA)

ESO Umberto Veronesi Award Lecture by Dame Lesley Fallowfield (UK)

15.30 – 15.45 h  Coffee break

15.45 – 17.15 h   Session 1: News since St. Gallen 2017

Chairs: Fatima Cardoso (Portugal), Beat Thürlimann (Switzerland)

17.15 – 17.45 h  Coffee break

17.45 – 19.15 h   Session 2: Biology of breast cancer I: Risk stratification

Chairs: Suzette Delaloge (France), Peter Dubsky (Austria / Switzerland)

  

Networking opportunity

19.15 – 21.00 h  Welcome Apéro (on the premises of the Austria Center Vienna), free for all registered persons

Thursday, 21 March 2019

08.30 – 10.00 h   Session 3: Biology of breast cancer II: Prediction of response

Chairs: Giuseppe Curigliano (Italy), C. Kent Osborne (USA)

10.00 – 10.30 h  Coffee break, exhibition, posters I

10.30 – 11.45 h   Session 4: Risk stratification and prevention in ductal in situ carcinoma

Chairs: Jens Huober (Germany), Jonas Bergh (Sweden)

11.45 – 12.30 h   Special lecture I and II

Chair: Richard Gelber (USA) 

I: Extrapolating data from clinical trials as we are treating patients in real life (Sharon Giordano, USA) 

II: What is the clinical benefit in the treatment of patients with early breast cancer?  

(Ann H. Partridge, USA)

12.30 – 14.00 h  Lunch break, exhibition, posters I, Satellite Symposium

14.00 – 15.30 h   Session 5: New pathways with potential impact in the treatment of early breast cancer

Chairs: Masazaku Toi (Japan), Jiang Zefei (China)

15.30 – 16.00 h  Coffee break, exhibition, posters I

16.00 – 17.30 h   Session 6: Treatment tailoring according to pathology and biology

Chairs: Hervé Bonnefoi (France), Meredith Regan (USA)

17.45 – 19.15 h  Satellite Symposium

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Friday, 22 March 2019 08.30 – 10.00 h   Session 7: Surgery of early breast cancer

Chairs: Emiel J.T. Rutgers (The Netherlands), Zhiming Shao (China)

10.00 – 10.30 h  Coffee break, posters II, exhibition

10.30 – 12.00 h   Session 8: Radiotherapy of early breast cancer 2019

Chairs: Per Karlsson (Sweden), Felix Sedlmayer (Austria)

12.00 – 12.30 h   Special lecture III

Chair: Martine Piccart-Gebhart (Belgium) 

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy in patients with early breast cancer: Principles and practical consi-

derations (Eric P. Winer, USA)

12.30 – 14.00 h  Lunch break, exhibition, posters II, Satellite Symposium

14.00 – 15.30 h   Session 9: Primary and adjuvant systemic therapy of early breast cancer I

Chairs: Daniel F. Hayes (USA), Karen Gelmon (Canada)

15.30 – 16.00 h  Coffee break, posters II, exhibition

16.00 – 17.30 h  Session 10: Primary and adjuvant systemic therapy of early breast cancer II

Chairs: Olivia Pagani (Switzerland), Sibylle Loibl (Germany)

17.45 – 19.15 h  Satellite Symposium

Saturday, 23 March 20198.30 – 12.30 h   Session 11: St. Gallen International Consensus session on the optimal primary treatment of women

with breast cancer 2019. Seeking consensus on evidence and opinions

Chairs: Giuseppe Curigliano (Italy) and Eric P. Winer (USA) 

Scientific secretaries and consensus co-authors:

Harold J. Burstein (USA) 

Marco Colleoni (Italy) 

Giuseppe Curigliano (Italy) 

Peter Dubsky (Austria / Switzerland) 

Carsten Denkert (Germany) 

Sibylle Loibl (Germany) 

Martine Piccart-Gebhart (Belgium) 

Philip Poortmans (The Netherlands/France) 

Meredith Regan (USA) 

Hans-Jörg Senn (Switzerland) 

Beat Thürlimann (Switzerland) 

Eric P. Winer (USA)

12.30 h   Farewell

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