Diagnosis and Management of Breast Disease: A Practical and Multidisciplinary Approach

November 1-3, 2011

The Eldorado Hotel and Spa

Santa Fe, New Mexico

The faculty will examine diagnostic criteria for common yet challenging breast lesions and provide you with invaluable guidance for dealing with problematic diagnoses, understanding the management implications of recent approaches to the evaluation and diagnosis of breast lesions, keeping pace with new developments, including molecular subclassification of invasive breast cancer, and more.

Following this course, you will be able to:

• Evaluate and articulate the responsibility of the pathologist in a multidisciplinary setting that includes radiologists, surgical oncologists and, radiation oncologists.
• Identify common entities and design an approach to the differential diagnosis of common and uncommon lesions initially evaluated on core biopsy.
• Discuss the emerging importance of prognostic and predictive factors in the classification of breast cancer and assess their impact on clinical management of patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery.

Who should attend?

Pathologists, Pathology Residents, and Pathologists' Assistants.

For more information visit :

http://www.pulmonarypath.org/pps_webpage_documents/pps_endorsed_courses/...

You can also contact us on: info@ascp.org