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Webcasts on clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer

The Steering Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer (part of Health Canada's Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative) is updating their 1998 guidelines and preparing new ones. The Committee has modified some of its earlier recommendations in light of new research findings and will discuss the most significant changes in these Webcasts.

A bilingual Webcast will be conducted for physicians on Tuesday November 13 at 6 pm Eastern time; French and English Webcasts for breast cancer patients and the general public will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 6:00 pm Eastern and 8:00 pm Eastern, respectively. Each Webcast will last 1 hour and will consist of presentations by Steering Committee members followed by a question and answer session.

The Webcasts will be broadcast from www.breastcancerguide.ca.

Webcast for physicians

Tuesday November 13 at 6 pm Eastern time

Topics:

  1. Management of ductal carcinoma in situ (the updated guideline will be published in the Oct. 2, 2001, issue of CMAJ and posted on eCMAJ at 6 pm on Oct. 1)

    Panelists: Dr. Ivo Olivotto, Vancouver Island Cancer Centre and University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC; Dr. Jacques Cantin, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Que.; Dr. Hugh Scarth, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB

  2. Adjuvant systemic therapy for node-positive breast cancer (../cmaj/vol-164/issue-5/breastcpg/guideline8rev.htm)

    Panelists: Dr. Mark Levine, Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Dr. Ivo Olivotto, Vancouver Island Cancer Centre and University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC; Dr. Leonard Reyno, Nova Scotia Cancer Centre, Halifax, NS; Ms. Chris Emery, BC Cancer Agency, Delta, BC

Webcast for breast cancer patients and the general public

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 (in French)
6:00 pm Eastern

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 (in English)
8:00 pm Eastern

See the French version of this page for the presenters of the French Webcast.

Topics:

  1. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (../cmaj/vol-165/issue-2/0166.asp)

    Panelists: Dr. Hugh Scarth, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB; Dr. Maria Hugi, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC

  2. Adjuvant systemic therapy for node-negative breast cancer (www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-164/issue-2/breastcpg/guideline7rev.htm)

    Panelists: Dr. Timothy Whelan, Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Ms. Chris Emery, BC Cancer Agency, Delta, BC; Dr. Mark Levine, Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.

This series will be conducted in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and CMAJ, with the assistance of an unrestricted grant from Pharmacia Oncology.

 

 

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