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Clinical Dilemmas in Breast Cancer: An Interactive Tumor Board Series

Houston Marriott West Loop by The Galleria
Houston, TX
November 21, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

7:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am Welcome, Introductions, and Presession Survey
Frankie Ann Holmes
8:15 am Case 1: A 66-year-old woman with a 1.2-cm grade 2 ER+/PgR+/HER2 infiltrating ductal carcinoma with 0/3 sentinel nodes involved
  Review of Case, Mammograms, and Pathology
Debu Tripathy
  Discussion of Recommendations
Joanne Mortimer
  Discussion of Recommendations
Matthew Ellis
  Audience Discussion and Debate
9:00 am Case 2: A 69-year-old woman with a 2-cm grade 3 ER+/PgR+/HER2+ infiltrating ductal carcinoma with no lymph nodes involved and an LVEF of 52%
  Review of Case, Mammograms, and Pathology
Frankie Ann Holmes
  Discussion of Recommendations
Debu Tripathy
  Discussion of Recommendations
Joanne Mortimer
  Audience Discussion and Debate
9:45 am Case 3: A 37-year-old woman with a clinically staged 6-cm ER–/PgR–/HER2+ left upper outer quadrant infiltrating ductal carcinoma with clinically negative nodes
  Review of Case, Mammograms, and Pathology
Matthew Ellis
  Discussion of Recommendations
Frankie Ann Holmes
  Discussion of Recommendations
Debu Tripathy
  Audience Discussion and Debate
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Case 4: A 55-year-old woman with T1 N1 ER+/PgR+/HER2+ breast cancer diagnosed 2 years ago treated with AC/paclitaxel plus HER2-targeted therapy followed by an aromatase inhibitor relapses in lung and liver 1 year after completing HER2-targeted therapy
  Review of Case, Mammograms, and Pathology
Joanne Mortimer
  Discussion of Recommendations
Matthew Ellis
  Discussion of Recommendations
Frankie Ann Holmes
  Audience Discussion and Debate
11:30 am Case 5: A 61-year-old woman presenting with a 2-cm left breast mass, axillary adenopathy, and left hip pain is found to have a high-grade ER/PgR/HER2 infiltrating ductal carcinoma with bone and lung metastases and an ECOG PS of 0
  Review of Case, Mammograms, and Pathology
Debu Tripathy
  Discussion of Recommendations
Matthew Ellis
  Discussion of Recommendations
Joanne Mortimer
  Audience Discussion and Debate
12:15 pm Postsession Survey and Closing Comments
Frankie Ann Holmes
12:30 pm Adjourn

Educational Grants

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  1. Genentech BioOncology