Online
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Engage virtually with other NHS breast care professionals from across the country and develop your knowledge for improving the treatment and follow up of breast cancer patients. Delve into the latest in drug development and clinical trials plus learn how others are enhancing their management of early breast cancer.
3 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Do you work in breast care and are you looking to develop your knowledge and confidence to better support your patients through diagnosis, treatment and follow up? If yes, this online 3-hour forum is a must attend. This dedicated event will focus on:
- Latest trials and treatments and what you need to know for your patients
- Approved and pending trials for actionable mutations and treatments
- Effective management of early breast cancer
- Practicalities of breast cancer treatment in older people
Charity showcase: resources and training for patients and healthcare professionals
With thanks to Breast Cancer Now for taking part.
Attend this online NHS event from the comfort of your own home
Packed with examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice, plus benefit from:
- Meeting each other – turning on your videos and microphones in the breakout rooms
- Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A – in the main conference room with a chair
- Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions – enabled by moderators in the breakout rooms
- Feeding back and engaging – using the chat box and moderators sharing content in the main conference room
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Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms
Who are you, where are you from and what would you like to take away from the day?
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| 9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Caroline Tweedie, Specialist Breast Care Nurse, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
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| Latest trials and treatments | |
| 9:40 |
Current updates on oncology drug and clinical trial developments for early breast cancer
Dr Alicia Okines, Consultant Medical Oncologist in Breast and Acute Oncology, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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| Managing genetic mutations | |
| 10:05 |
Actionable mutations and treatments: exploring currently approved and pending trials
Dr Vishakha Tripathi, Consultant Genetic Counsellor in Cancer Genetics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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| 10:30 |
Sponsored presentation opportunity
Please do contact sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk for further information - tel 01732 897788
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| 10:40 |
Your questions and answers with the speakers
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| 10:50 |
Interactive discussion: Enhancing your management of early breast cancer
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| 11:10 |
Screen break
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| 11:20 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Enhancing your management of early breast cancer
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| 11:30 |
Breast Cancer Now resources and training for patients and healthcare professionals
Jane Murphy, Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, Breast Cancer Now
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| Effective treatment of breast cancer in older patient | |
| 11:55 |
Practicalities of treating older patients with breast cancer
Dr Nicolo Battisti, Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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| 12:20 |
Your questions and answers with the speakers
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| 12:30 |
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day
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Speaker line-up:
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Caroline Tweedie
Caroline Tweedie
Specialist Breast Care Nurse
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Alicia Okines
Dr Alicia Okines
Consultant Medical Oncologist in Breast and Acute Oncology
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Vishakha Tripathi
Dr Vishakha Tripathi
Consultant Genetic Counsellor in Cancer Genetics
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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Jane Murphy
Jane Murphy
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist
Breast Cancer Now
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Dr Nicolo Battisti
Dr Nicolo Battisti
Consultant Medical Oncologist
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Past attendee feedback
This free to attend, online, morning networking forum follows a series of oncology focused successful, educational events – but don’t take our word for it! Take a look at how previous attendees have described our courses.
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“Very informative, makes you more aware of how other trusts work, well delivered, certainly gives confidence to explore your triage assessments and how to gain more knowledge and different ideas for triage”
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, April 2023
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“Very well organised and much more interactive than I thought it would be”
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your MUO/CUP Pathways, March 2023
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“Excellent to network with so many people with an interest in MUO/CUP and have this amount of experience in one forum. Very valuable to have such updates and work with others with the same interest to improve pathways together”
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your MUO/CUP Pathways, March 2023
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“Very informative and at a good level to understand”
- Midland Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Immuno-Oncology Adverse Effects, December 2022
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“The presentations are so helpful and will help manage patients in clinical practice”
- Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust, Immuno-Oncology Adverse Effects, December 2022
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“Valuable. Interesting. Educational”
- Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Immuno-Oncology Adverse Effects, December 2022