ASCO invites all professionals interested in the prevention, evaluation, and management of breast cancer to attend this year's Breast Cancer Symposium at National Harbor in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. With presentations from experts in multiple disciplines, the educational sessions will present the latest scientific findings that affect current breast cancer management.

Designed to facilitate interaction among attendees and faculty, the program includes discussion-based educational sessions, case presentations, audience response technology, and lunchtime discussion sessions on selected abstracts. The size of the meeting and the hotel setting foster collegial communication among participants.
Fellows, residents, and junior faculty will have several opportunities to participate in exclusive networking events, including poster walks and a breakfast session focused on career development topics, with discussions led by the symposium faculty and committee members.

Sessions to Present Cutting-edge Research

A new session format will integrate abstract findings and current trends into the topic presentations. Over the 2½-day program, experts from across the country will address the following topics in nine general sessions:

• Prevention and Risk
• Imaging and Screening
• Biology of Metastases
• Integrating Radiation Therapy and Breast Reconstruction
• Controversies in Radiation Therapy
• Survivorship
• Targeted Therapy Advances/New Approaches/New Designs
• Health-care Policy and Reform
• Triple-negative Breast Cancer

Each general session has two to four presenters on focused topics, such as genetics of race and ethnicity, bone marrow progenitors' contribution to breast cancer metastasis, accelerated partial breast irradiation, sexuality and survivorship, and PARP inhibitors.

Nancy E. Davidson, MD, recipient of the 2010 Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award, will deliver the 2010 Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Lecture. Dr. Davidson is Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

The Breast Cancer Symposium will take place in the Gaylord National Hotel, part of a 300-acre development known as National Harbor, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. Built on the shore of the river, National Harbor contains a variety of shops and restaurants, from casual cafes that feature Maryland's famous crabs and oysters, to award-winning restaurants offering fine dining. A cruise on the Potomac is among the evening entertainment options available, and Cirque du Soleil will be performing at National Harbor, October 1-3.

Water taxis run from National Harbor to Old Town Alexandria and Georgetown, and a shuttle service takes passengers to Washington, DC, every 30 minutes. Shuttle service to Reagan National Airport is scheduled every 20 minutes from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

For more information and to register for the 2010 Breast Cancer Symposium, visit www.breastcasymposium.org. The deadline for early discounted registration is August 25. ■

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