San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
December 2007

Report by Libby Burgess (pdf)
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Libby attended this important annual symposium in December 2007 and found the experience extremely worthwhile and fascinating. The conference was attended by around 9,000 oncologists, researchers and advocates from around the world.

“I was impressed by the huge amount of knowledge being generated by researchers intent on understanding and curing the various sub-types of breast cancer.  This is leading to the development of treatments that are more specifically targeted to each patient’s needs, more effective and generally less toxic than the older “one size fits all” approach.  SABCS offered a great learning opportunity for advocates,” said Libby.

Advocates (pictured) attended nightly mentor sessions at which prominent cancer specialists summarised the day’s presentations of new data.  Libby was assigned a Hot Topic report, ‘The use of genomics in breast cancer sub-type identification, prognostic prediction and treatment optimisation’, required as a condition of her Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation scholarship. She has written a report about her experiences at the SABCS and summarised some of the key results announced at the conference. Read Libby's report here.

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