Under the auspices of Mr Mondher Zenaidi, Minister of Health

          

SCIENTIFIC  PROGRAM

8:30 : Opening of the Course
Pr Stefano Iacobelli
Pr Hamouda Boussen

8:45 – 11:00

Session 1 : Epidemiology and Diagnosis

Chairmen      Pr Farouk Benna                 Pr Slim Ben Ahmed             Pr Gianni Saguatti

8:45                             Epidemiology of breast cancer
Massimo Crespi (Rome, Italy) (in English or French)

9:10                             Screening for breast cancer in Europe and USA
Gianni Saguatti (Bologna, Italy) (in English)

9:35                             Genetics and molecular biology in breast cancer
Ouejdane Mahfoudh, Elham Hassen, Lotif Chouchane(Faculté de Monastir, Tunisia) (In English)

10:00                           Histopathological prognostic factors in breast cancer
A Gamoudi (ISA-Tunis) (In French)

10:25-10:45                Discussion

10:45-11:00                Coffee break

Session 2: Prognosis

Chairmen      Pr Khaled Rahal                  Pr Pier Giorgio Natali                      Pr Giuseppe Petrella

11:00                           User-friendly methods for the assessment of the HER-2 status (short presentation by CD) Marcella Mottolese, Pier Giorgio Natali  (Rome, Italy) (In English)

11:25                          Clinical prognostic factors of breast cancer
Samia Kanoun, Sameh Tebra, Noureddine Bouaouina(Hôpital Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia) (In French)

11:50                          Surgery management of breast cancer (in English)
Giuseppe Petrella (Rome, Italy)

12:15                           Surgery in inflammatory breast cancer
Khaled Rahal (ISA. Tunis)(In French; slides in English)

12:40-13:00                Discussion                 

13:00                          Lunch

Afternoon

14:30-17:00

Session 3 : Medical Treatment

Chairmen      Pr Sami Khatib                     Pr Stefano Iacobelli                         Pr Kamel Bouzid

14:30                          Adjuvant chemotherapy:
Olfa Gharbi, Slim Ben Ahmed (Sousse-Tunisia) (In French)

14:55                          Adjuvant endocrine therapy
Stefano Iacobelli (Chieti-Pescara, Italy) (in French)

15:20                          Experience of trastuzumab in Algeria
Kamel Bouzid (Algiers, Algeria) (In French)

15:45                           Other targeted therapies in breast cancer 
Assia Bensalem (Constantine)  (In French)

16:10-16:30                Discussion

16:30-16:45                Coffee break

Chairman      Pr Noureddine Bouaouina              Pr Yazid Belkacemi              Pr Francesco Cognetti                                
16:45                          Medical therapy: what is new, what is useful
Francesco Cognetti (Rome, Italy) (in English)

17:10                           New modalities of radiotherapy in breast cancer
Yazid Belkacemi (Centre Oscar Lambret. Lille. France) (In French)                     

17:35                          Neoadjuvant therapies in breast cancer
Hamouda Boussen (ISA-Tunis) (In English)

18:00-18:20                Discussion

18:20                           Closing remarks. Conclusion

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Cours ouvert à tous les médecins et paramédicaux intéressés par le sujet
Directeur du Cours : Pr Hamouda Boussen, Institut Salah Azaiz, Tunis, Tunisia, E Mail hamouda.boussen@rns.tn. Téléphone 71577813,             Fax 71574725

Registration is mandatory, FREE OF CHARGE, to estimate the number of participants

Director of the Course : Prof Hamouda Boussen, Institut Salah Azaiz, Tunis, Tunisia, E Mail hamouda.boussen@rns.tn. Téléphone 71577813.  Fax 71574725