Over the past four years, our education group has hosted independent satellite symposia in association with the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium to shed light on current controversies in the management of early and advanced breast cancer and to provide oncologists with practical management strategies that they can employ in their clinical practices. For this year’s meeting, we have assembled a superb faculty panel and have developed a truly innovative and dynamic format to help us once again achieve these important goals.

This meeting will be centered on eight actual but deidentified case presentations from the practices of community-based medical oncologists from across the US. We recently videotaped these clinicians describing their patients’ clinical situations, the management approaches suggested and the treatment decisions that were ultimately made.

At the meeting, we will use these videos to set the stage and will begin each discussion by playing a segment from one of the recorded case descriptions taking us up to the point of clinical decision-making. After each of these excerpts, I will ask the faculty panel to comment on the case as if the patient had come to them seeking a second opinion. For each case, one of the faculty members will be called upon to briefly review the published research data and ongoing trials addressing optimal treatment in that clinical situation. After each of these brief presentations, we will use the video to reveal the patient’s actual clinical course.

Our group is extremely excited about this event and believes the lively discussion and fascinating perspectives that will emerge will provide relevant, practical and important educational information on the roles of chemotherapeutic, biologic and hormonal agents in the management of breast cancer. To that end, we will record the entire program and distribute the proceedings nationally to US-based clinicians as an enduring audio program.

I hope you will join us for what should be an interesting and exciting event, and I look forward to seeing you in San Antonio.

Neil Love, MD
Editor, Breast Cancer Update Audio Series
Miami, Florida
NLove@ResearchToPractice.com