Session 9: Areas of controversy in surgery of early breast cancer, in special populations

Chairs: Michael Gnant (Austria), Masakazu Toi (Japan)

  • Optimal surgical management for high risk populations (Tari King, USA)
  • Feasibility of sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer after neoadjuvant treatment (Viviana Galimberti, Italy)
  • Surgical management after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Peter Dubsky, Austria)
  • Conservative surgery for multifocal/multicentric disease (Emiel J.T. Rutgers, Netherlands)
  • Breast conservative surgery and local recurrence (Mahdi Rezai, Germany)
  • Discussion