St. Gallen Consensus 2013: Optimizing and Personalizing Primary Curative Therapy of Breast Cancer Worldwide

[摘要] Every two years, in March of odd years, the professional elite of the clinical and research-oriented ‘breast cancer world’ from Europe, Asia, North- and South-America as well as Australia is called to the meanwhile traditional St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conferences in Eastern Switzerland. In mid-March 2013 again, some 3,500 breast cancer specialists – surgeons, radio- and medical oncologists, gynaecologists, pathologists and basic researchers – assembled in St. Gallen, united by one single goal and perspective: to critically review the present state of the art in optimising and personalising primary curative therapy of early operable breast cancer, and to consequently re-analyse and update the recommendations of the St. Gallen 2013 International Treatment Consensus accordingly. Once more, a multi-disciplinary, highly competitive panel of 48 experts in the field from 22 countries and more than 15 leading breast cancer cooperative groups were ready to meet this difficult, but important challenge. It should be emphasized that the members of this distinguished international consensus panel were confronted with the more than 100 delicate, and partially controversial diagnostic and therapeutic questions, long before the terminal, open consensus session, which traditionally closes each St. Gallen Breast Cancer Conference since the third such international event in 1988. It is also important to state that from the beginning, the organizers of the St. Gallen Breast Cancer Conferences and the final consensus sessions have been paying special attention to the scientific independence and integrity of the invited moderators, speakers and panellists. All of them have to openly declare their possible institutional and financial relationships with industry and other institutions that could potentially influence their presentations and especially their voting interests during the consensus session.

[学科分类] 泌尿医学