The American Society of Breast Surgeons 9th Annual Meeting
April 30-May 4, 2008

The PDFs for available presentations are below.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Coding and Reimbursement

Coding and Reimbursement Symposium 2008 - Mark Gittleman, MD
Modifiers - Richard Fine, MD
Coding for Sentinel Lymph Node Procedures - Eric Whitacre, MD

Friday, May 2, 2008

Image-Guided Breast Procedures: Who Should Do Them? - Jay Harness, MD

Surgical Perspective - Arthur Lerner, MD
Radiologic Perspective - Julie Mitnick, MD
American College of Radiology (ACR) Perspective - Arl Van Moore, MD
American College of Surgery (ACS) Perspective - Thomas Russell, MD
National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Perspective - David Winchester, MD
Regulatory/Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Perspective Daniel Schultz, MD

Breast Imaging: Indications, Limitations, and Caveats

Mammography - Emily Conant, MD
Ultrasound - Michael Linver, MD
MRI - Barbara Monsees, MD
Future Directions - D. David Dershaw, MD(unavailable)

Scientific Poster Forum

Presidential Address

Breast Surgeons as Leaders of Change - Jay Harness, MD

Best Papers of 2007 - Helen Pass, MD

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Community Tumor Board

Radiotherapy

Historic Background - Jay Harris, MD
Partial Breast Irradiation: Intraoperative - Virgilio Sacchini, MD(unavailable)
Partial Breast Irradiation: Balloon Catheter - Peter Beitsch, MD
Partial Breast Irradiation: 3-D Conformal - Frank Vicini, MD (unavailable)
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and RT - Thomas Buchholz, MD (unavailable)
Breast Reconstruction and RT Peter Cordeiro, MD (unavailable)

Basic and Translational Science

Stem Cells - Max Wicha, MD
Gene Expression Profiling - Emiel Rutgers, MD, PhD, FRCS
Hereditary Breast Cancer - Mark Robson, MD (unavailable)

Keynote Address

How the Evolution of Breast Cancer Surgery Has Anticipated Recent Advances in Molecular Oncology - Larry Norton, MD (unavailable)

Systemic Therapy

Anti-Estrogens - Paul Goss, MD, PhD
Anti-HER2 - Harld Burstein, MD PhD (unavailable)
Anti-Angiogenics and Small Molecules - Clifford Hudis, MD
Managing Infertility in the Breast Cancer Patient - Nicole Noyes, MD

Pathology

Margins: Do We Really Do What We Say We Do? - Melvin Silverstein, MD (unavailable at this time)
Molecular Characterization of Breast Cancer in the Path Lab: How It’s Done and What It Means - Kenneth Bloom, MD
The Indeterminate or Discordant Core Biopsy: Pathology Perspective - Ira Bleiweiss, MD
The Indeterminate or Discordant Core Biopsy: Radiology Perspective - Laura Liberman, MD (unavailable)
RT-PCR for Intraoperative Assessment of Sentinel Nodes - Robert Mansel, CBE, MS, FRCS

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Systemic Therapy

Congenital Diseases - J. Michael Dixon (unavailable at this time - check back)
Cyclic and Noncyclic Mastalgia - Robert Mansel, CBE, MS, FRCS
Nipple Discharge and Subareolar Abscess, Pathological Nipple Discharge, Chronic Subareolar Abscess and Fistula - Howard Snider, MD
ADH, ALH, and LCIS -Michelle Specht, MD (unavailable)
Phyllodes Tumors - Andrea Barrio, MD

Systemic Therapy

ACOSOG Z0010-11 Update - Peter Beitsch, MD
ALMANAC Trial Update - Robert Mansel, CBE, MS, FRCS)
NSABP B-32 Trial Update - Thomas Julian, MD
AMAROS Trial Update - Emiel Rutgers, MD, PhD, FRCS
Nomograms: What They Can, and Cannot, Do - Kimberly Van Zee, MD (unavailable)
SLN Biopsy for DCIS: Routine, Sometimes, or Never? - Charles Cox, MD
SLN Biopsy With Neoadjuvant Chemo: Before or After? - Lisa Newman, MD