The 7th Aarhus Workshop in Breast Surgery will be organized 16-17 May 2018. The workshop is an annual event directed to important issues in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, and at the same time there is focus on nursing care aspects, thereby to contribute to a continued positive development in both medical treatment and nursing.
By inviting leading international experts and Danish specialists as lecturers and teaching staff, we provide the insight on selected topics; the doctors’ programme is in English, while the nursing session is held in Danish.
The Workshop addresses all members of the multi-disciplinary breast team: breast- and plastic surgeons, breast radiologists, breast pathologists, breast oncologists, geneticists, breast nurses and physiotherapists.
Main themes for the 7th workshop
Doctors’ session
- Organization of a modern breast unit
- Molecular subtypes in breast cancer
- Oncoplastic surgical techniques with focus on therapeutic mammoplasty and local flaps
Nurses’ session
- Physical and psychological effects including late effects of the cancer diagnosis and treatment
- Cancer rehabilitation
- The patients’ perspectives on breast reconstruction
- Shared decision making
- Teen-agers as relatives to breast cancer patients
