13:30 Welcome and Introduction (R. Stahel, Zurich)
Keynote Lectures
13:40 Breast cancer – a health economics overview (T. Szücs, Basel)
14:15 Gestagens and RANKL – neglected opportunities? (C. Brisken, Lausanne)
Elderly patients
14:45 Breast surgery: conservative vs. mastectomy vs. none at all (F. Chiesa, St. Gallen)
15:10 Radiation therapy: when and who, and when to omit? (D. Zwahlen, Chur)
15:35 Chemo- and endocrine therapy (T. Ruhstaller, St. Gallen)
16:00 Coffee break
Early breast cancer
16:30 Does staging benefit patients? The role of preoperative MRI and CT-PET (D. Matt, St. Gallen)
16:50 The sentinel node revisited – micromets, completion axillary surgery (S. Bucher, Luzern)
17:10 Adjuvant hormonal therapy for premenopausal patients (O. Pagani, Bellinzona)
17:30 Adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in 2014 (A. Bodmer, Genève)
17:50 Discussion
18:00 Adjourn
Saturday 4th October 2014
Brain metastases
08:30 Why do some breast cancers metastasize to the brain? (F. Winkler, Heidelberg)
09:00 Recent advances in radiation therapy of brain metastases (S. Rogers, Aarau)
09:25 Medical therapy of brain and leptomeningeal metastases (S. Hofer, Luzern)
09:50 Discussion
10:15 Coffee break
Genetics/Early detection
10:45 „Hereditary breast cancer – who to refer to a cancer genetics clinic and how to counsel patients with positive and negative results (B. Bolliger, St. Gallen)
11:05 Screening Mammography - A View from the Swiss Medical Board (P. Jüni, Bern)