4th symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: putting personalized care into practice (held: 3 March 2017)

Cheung, Kwok-Leung; Morgan, David; Brain, Etienne; Poortmans, Philip; Parks, Ruth; Korc-Grodzicki, Beatriz; Ugolini, Fiammetta; Shakir, Taner; Tsang, Janice; Stone, Heather; Kenis, Cindy; Perks, Graeme; Wijayatunga, Roshaine

Abstract

Following the inception in 2010, the University of Nottingham hosted the 4th Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women, under the auspices of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology, in March 2017, at East Midlands Conference Centre. This is the only meeting of its kind in the UK, now held biennially, aiming at a multidisciplinary audience, including patients, their carers and advocates. With a theme on ’Putting personalising care into practice’, this Symposium included sessions on ’local and systemic therapies’, ’new ideas’, ’patients and carers’, and ’challenging areas’, covered by an international and local faculty, interviewing patients and carers, and abstract presentations. Topics covered were practical and wide-ranging, including selecting for chemotherapy, radiotherapy and breast reconstruction, treating HER2-positive disease, and the roles of the geriatrician and geriatric oncology nurse.

Citation

Cheung, K.-L., Morgan, D., Brain, E., Poortmans, P., Parks, R., Korc-Grodzicki, B., Ugolini, F., Shakir, T., Tsang, J., Stone, H., Kenis, C., Perks, G., & Wijayatunga, R. (in press). 4th symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: putting personalized care into practice (held: 3 March 2017). Breast Cancer Management, https://doi.org/10.2217/bmt-2017-0016

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 17, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Dec 13, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jan 5, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 14, 2018
• Journal: Breast Cancer Management
• Print ISSN: 1758-1923
• Electronic ISSN: 1758-1931
• Publisher: Future Medicine
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2217/bmt-2017-0016
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/899887
• Publisher URL: https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/bmt-2017-0016
• Contract Date: Jan 5, 2018