International Breast Cancer Conference Research Articles

Update Breast Cancer 2023 Part 3 - Expert Opinions of Early Stage Breast Cancer Therapies.

The St.Gallen (SG) International Breast Cancer Conference is held every two years, previously in St.Gallen and now in Vienna. This year (2023) marks the eighteenth edition of this conference, which focuses on the treatment of patients with early-stage breast carcinoma. A panel discussion will be held at the end of this four-day event, during which a panel of experts will give their opinions on current controversial issues relating to the treatment of early-stage breast cancer patients. To this end, questions are generally formulated in such a way that clinically realistic cases are presented - often including poignant hypothetical modifications. This review reports on the outcome of these discussions and summarises the data associated with individual questions raised.

Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer: Evidence, Controversies, Consensus: Spectrum of Opinion of German Specialists on the 16th St.Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference (Vienna 2019).

The results of the international St. Gallen Consensus Conference for the treatment of patients with primary breast cancer were discussed this year by a working group of leading breast cancer experts in view of the therapy recommendations for everyday clinical practice in Germany. Three of the breast cancer experts are also members of this yearʼs St. Gallen panel. The comparison of the St. Gallen recommendations with the annually updated treatment recommendations of the AGO 2019 as well as the S3 guideline is useful, since the recommendations of the St. Gallen panel represent the opinions of experts from various countries and disciplines. The recommendations of the S3 guideline and AGO are based on evidence-based research of the literature. This yearʼs 16th St. Gallen conference featured the motto “Magnitude of clinical benefit”. In addition to the evidence-based data, each therapeutic decision must also undergo a benefit/risk assessment of the patientʼs individual situation and be discussed with the patient.