Under the auspices of Mr Mondher Zenaidi, Minister of Health

the Mediterranean School of Oncology (MSO)

and the Mediterranean Task force for Cancer Control (MTCC)

organise a joint Postgraduate Course

in collaboration with

the Tunisian National College of Oncology

Association Tunisienne d’Assistance aux Malades du Cancer du Sein (ATAMCS)

Association de Radiothérapie Oncologie de la Méditerranée (AROME)

“Breast Cancer: From Epidemiology to Treatment”

Tunis, November 14th, 2008

Hotel El Mechtel.

Tunis. Tunisia

Local Scientific Board

Hamouda Boussen MD

Khaled Rahal MD

Farouk Benna MD

Amor Gamoudi MD

Slim Ben Ahmed MD

Noureddine Bouaouina MD

Lotfi Chouchane PhD

MSO International Scientific Committee

Stefano Iacobelli MD, Italy

Valeri Tzekov MD, Bulgaria

Hussein Abdel-Hamid MD, Egypt

David Khayat MD, France

Massimo Crespi MD, Italy

Mahmoud Sarhan MD, Jordan

Brahim Khalil El Gueddari MD, Morocco

Luis Antonio Costa MD, Portugal

Josep M Borras MD, Spain

Ayse Nurdan Tozun MD, Turkey

MSO Secretariat

Mediterranean School of Oncology

Valeria Cannavicci Mrs

Marco De Biagi Mr

Giovanna Di Credico Mrs

Anna Scattone Mrs

CINBO - MSO

Cattedra di Oncologia Medica, University “G. D’Annunzio”

Via dei Vestini, 5 – 66100 Chieti – Italy

E Mail :

Local Organizing Secretariat

Mme Meriem Mili-Michelucci

E Mail :

Message from the Directors

Dear Colleagues,

It’s a great pleasure to welcome you in Tunis to the first Post-Graduate Course co-organised by Mediterranean School of Oncology(MSO) and the Mediterranean Task Force for Cancer Control (MTCC) on“Breast Cancer: From Epidemiology to Treatment” that will take place in Tunis in November 14th, 2008 at the Hotel El Mechtel.

This Course, under the auspices of Mr Mondher Zenaidi, Minister of Health, is co-organised by MSO and MTCC in collaboration with the Tunisian National college of Oncology, the Association Tunisienne d’Assistance aux Malades du Cancer du Sein (ATAMCS), the Association de Radiothérapie Oncologie de la Méditerranée (AROME) and the Institut Salah Azaiz of Tunis.

The selected topics are intended to give a comprehensive approach to an important health problem in our Mediterranean countries due to persistent delayed diagnosis and the poor impact on prognosis. This important event will take place in a country interested in its long history by many historical moves between the two sides of our mother water. It gathers experts from southern and northern parts of the Mediterranean Basin, united and concerned by the problem of breast cancer.

It’s oriented to young specialists in oncology, but also first line physicians from North Africa that need to be involved in an important multidisciplinary effort to improve the prognosis of breast cancer by earlier diagnoses and adequate therapeutic management protocols according to international guidelines and internationally recognised good clinical practices.

We address our thanks to the diligence and efforts done by our Italian MTCC-MSO friends and colleagues Massimo and Stefano and to the local scientific and organizing committee. Our thanks to the you and all for the interest and the acceptance to participate to this event.

Hamouda Boussen MD

Stefano Iacobelli MD

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, InstitutSalah Azaiz, Tunis, Tunisia, E Mail . Téléphone 71577813, Fax 71574725

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

Director of the Course: Prof Hamouda Boussen, InstitutSalah Azaiz, Tunis, Tunisia, E Mail . Téléphone 71577813. Fax 71574725