8h15 - 8h30: Welcome Coffee
8h30 - 8h45: Introduction by UNIGE and HUG
9h00 - 9h20: Introduction to breast cancer translational research
Prof. Pelagia Tsoutsou, Head, Division of radio-oncology HUG, Geneva, Switzerland
9h20 - 10h20: Breast cancer research - Switzerland
- Animal models with a special focus on lobular breast cancer
Dr. Georgios Sflomos, Cancer Researcher, ISREC, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Circulating-tumor cells
Prof. Nicola Aceto, Professor of Molecular Oncology, Institute of Molecular Health, Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
- Interventional techniques for small breast cancers - freeze it, fry it or suck it
Prof. Peter Dubsky, Director, Breast cancer Center, Hirslanden Group, Lucerne, Switzerland
10h20 - 10h40: Coffee break
10h40 - 12h00: Breast cancer research - International
- Genomic signatures and opportunities to personalize locoregional treatment of breast cancer
Prof. Eleftherios Mamounas, Medical Director Breast Cancer Program, AdventHealth Cancer Institute, Florida, USA, Professor of Surgery, University of Central Florida
- ctDNA trials in breast cancer:
Michail Ignatiadis, MD, PhD
Director, Breast Medical Oncology Clinic & Program, Medical Oncology Department, Institut Bordet
Professeur Hospitalier, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Chair, Breast Cancer Group, EORTC
- Research progress in lymphedema and concrete benefits to patients’ lives
Prof. Alphonse Taghian, Director of Breast Radiation Oncology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Innovations in radiation therapy : Towards research adapted to the new standard schedules and means ?
Prof. Yazid Belkacemi, Head of the Radiation Oncology Department and Breast Cancer Center, APHP - University Hospital of Henri Mondor, AROME Honorary President, Paris, France