London Breast Meeting 2016

Thursday, 8th September 2016

07.00 - 09.00 Registration and refreshments

08.45 - 09.00 Welcome and introduction

09.00 - 10.00 Risk reducing surgery

• The Angelina Jolie effect
• Treatment strategies in BRCA patients after previous breast cancer
• Contralateral mastectomy in non-BRCA patients: justified or overkill?

10.00 – 10.45 Breast cancer surgery

• Indications and contraindications of skin/nipple sparing mastectomy
• What to do with the internal mammary lymph nodes
• Male breast cancer

10.45 – 11.15 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.15 – 12.15 Breast conservation surgery

• Breast conservation failure: when to do completion mastectomy
• The breast conservation surgery journey: where do you draw the line
• Indications and controversies in partial and complete lipofilling for breast reconstruction

12.15 – 13.00 Keynote lecture: David Jay and the SCAR project

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and exhibition viewing

14.00 – 15.00 Adjuvant oncological therapy and reconstruction

• Radiation therapy and immediate breast reconstruction: novel approaches and update
• The interaction of chemotherapy on autologous and implant based breast reconstruction
  

15.00 - 15.45 Breast reconstruction

• Immediate implant and autologous reconstruction: when and why we should say no
  

15.45 – 16.15 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.15 – 17.30 Implant reconstruction

• Indications and controversies for implant-only based breast reconstruction
• Indications and controversies for implant based breast reconstruction utilising biological meshes and non-biological meshes/matrices
• The evidence of antibiotic usage in implants

17.30 Networking reception and close of day one

Friday, 9th September 2016

06.30 – 08.30 Registration and refreshments

07.00 – 08.30 Challenge the Masters at breakfast

08.30 – 10.00 Autologous breast reconstruction: part I

• What is the limit for abdominally based autologous reconstruction: BMI - Age - previous abdominal surgery - type of pannus

10.00 – 10.30 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

10.30 – 11.30 Autologous breast reconstruction: part II

• Non-abdominal based autologous breast reconstruction
  - Indications as primary reconstruction
  - Indications as salvage reconstruction

11.30 – 12.15 What have I changed in my practice in the last year?

12.15 – 13.00 Keynote lecture: What is changing in breast reconstruction?

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and exhibition viewing

14.00 – 15.30 Tips and tricks session: part I

• How to get an abdominoplasty look following a DIEP flap
• How to choose the best site for LVA in the upper limb
• How to do bipedicled DIEP flaps
• How to shape the delayed autologous breast
• How to avoid the empty upper pole in the long term
• What happens behind the curtain: the anaesthetic cocktail

15.30 – 16.00 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.00 – 17.00 Tips and tricks session: part II

• How to insert the ADM in nipple sparing mastectomy
• Implant selection in direct to implant reconstruction
• Management of the exposed implant
• Management of the red breast
• Epipectoral breast reconstruction

17.00 – 18.00 Best Case, Best Save

18.00 Social function and close of day two

Saturday, 10th September 2016

08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast symposium

09.00 – 10.00 The ptotic breast

• Reshaping the ptotic breast: five experts, five approaches

10.00 – 10.45 Aesthetic breast surgery in transsexual patients

• Male to female
• Female to male

10.45 – 11.15 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.15 – 12.15 Massive weight loss patients

• How to reshape the male chest
• How to reshape the female chest
• Mummy makeover: combined breast and tummy

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch and exhibition viewing

13.00 – 14.30 Tips and tricks: part III

• Tuberous breast
• Mastopexy augmentation
• Recurrent ptosis
• Choice of implant: microtexture vs macrotexture vs polyurethane
• Fat grafting in breast augmentation
• Management of the infected breast augmentation
• How should the aesthetic breast augmentation patient be consented?

14.30 – 15.00 What have I changed in my practice in the last year?

15.00 Final comments, evaluations and close of conference

London Breast Meeting Live Broadcast

If you are unable to attend the London Breast Meeting, you can register for our live broadcast which will ensure that you don't miss a thing!

All of the presentations will be streamed directly to your PC or Mac as they occur at the meeting, and you will also be able to access the videos on-demand after the meeting so that you can watch them in your own time.

The Live Broadcast is CPD registered and you will be able to download your CPD certificate at the end of the meeting.