E. T. Bell Symposium and MSP Seminar

The University of Minnesota, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Minnesota Society of Pathologists are pleased to announce the following program…

36th E.T. Bell Fall Pathology Symposium
Update on Breast Cancer and Common Pediatric Tumors
Friday, October 14, 2011
8:00 am- 5:20 pm

and

Minnesota Society of Pathologists’
Annual Fall Seminar
Breast Pathology
Saturday, October 15, 2011
8:00 am- 5:00 pm
Mayo Auditorium, University of Minnesota

Questions, contact: Rosemary Lobeck at rlobeck@mnsocietypath.org or (952) 929-9398 or visit: www.mnsocietypath.org.

Maps to University of Minnesota, Mayo Building: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/Mayo

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:

1. Identify high risk factors for breast cancer.
2. Understand the evaluation and treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ.
3. Understand how to process pediatric tumor tissue in the gross room to optmize diagnosis, guide therapy and promote clinical research.
4. Understand the principles of HER2 testing in breast cancer and their inter-pretation and clinical implications of HER2 results.
5. Identify those lesions that need surgical excision following core needle bi-opsy (ADH, FEA, Fibroepitelial lesions, mucoele-like lesions etc).
6. Understand scientific basis of screening mammography and its controversies.
7. Describe the different entities of spindle cell lesions of the breast (benign and malignant) including fibromatosis, metaplastic breast carcinoma, phyl-lodes tumor, myofibroblastoma, etc.
8. Outline how important scientific developments were discovered and then integrated into the care of breast cancer patients.
9. Summarize recent developments in pathologic evaluation and classification of breast biopsies.

Audience

This conference would be ideal for practicing pathologists, oncologists, hematologists, radiation therapists and trainees in these specialties.

Registration

To register by phone, call: (952) 929-9398

Alternatively, you can download the registration form from the "Downloads" section of this page and fax it to (952) 929-4363, or mail it to:

Minnesota Society of Pathologists
P.O. Box 24475
Minneapolis, MN 55424

For questions, please contact Rosemary Lobeck at the number above, or by e-mail at rlobeck@mnsocietypath.org.