Falenty 2015

Between the 16th and 18th of April 2015, in Józefów (a town near Warsaw), a National Conference for Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer was held, entitled "Falenty 2015". The meeting was concerned with all of the challenges which doctors are currently facing in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, ethical issues of contemporary oncology, surgical treatment problems, radiotherapy and systemic therapy. The discussion was supplemented by workshops organized in cooperation with the Polish Ultrasound Society and the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS), concerning breast imaging and biopsy of suspicious lesions under image control. The conference was attended by (among others) Prof. Fatima Cardoso (Lisbon), Prof. Christoph Zielinski (Vienna), Prof. Krzysztof Maruszewski (Italy), Prof. Ruben Orda (Tel Aviv) and DCh Paul McGale (Oxford). DCh Artur Sliwinski held a lecture: "Light and Dark Sides of a Deferred Breast Reconstruction."