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Impact

Making a Difference 

The Toronto Breast Surgery Collaborative and its associated members meet regularly, participate in city-wide journal clubs and a variety of educational, research and outreach activities.

See below for past meetings, events and activities. 

Meetings

The Future Looks Bright

Interdisciplinary Journal Club

Change for the Better

Outreach

Making Change Possible

2025

  • September 18, 2025 - Clinical Practice Implications of the NRG Oncology B51-RTOG 1304 Phase III Trial Evaluating Omission of Regional Nodal Irradiation in Axillary Node Positive Breast Cancer Down-staged to Node Negative by Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (Dr. Julia White)

  • June 18, 2025 - Updates from ASBrS

  • February 13, 2025 - A discussion on onco-fertility (Dr. Jennia Michaeli)

2024

  • October 30, 2024 - Bilateral mastectomy and breast cancer mortality (Drs. David Lim, Steven Narod, and Vasily Giannakeas)

  • May 29, 2024 - Updates from ASBrS 2024

  • March 29, 2024 - Interdisciplinary journal club: Current management of the axilla - how much is enough?  (Guest speaker: Dr. Jana De Boniface) 

  • Feb 21, 2024 - Updates from SABCS 2023 

 

2023

  • November 15, 2023 – Hybrid meeting. Management of stage IV breast cancer

  • November 7, 2023 – Interdisciplinary journal club: ctDNA (Dr. David Cescon)

  • May 17, 2023 - Interdisciplinary journal club: Keynote-522 trial - Implications of using Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer

  • February 15, 2023 – Interdisciplinary journal club: PET ABC (Dr. Ur Metser, Dr. Andrea Eisen)

2022

  • November 10, 2022 - Surgical Management of Lymphedema (Guest Speakers: Beth Hoag, Dr. Siba Haykal,  Dr. Moein Momtazi)

  • October 19, 2022 – Interdisciplinary journal club: Oligometastatic Disease (Dr. Aisling Barry, Steven Chumra)

  • June 1, 2022 – Updates from ASBrS

  • March 24, 2022 – Cochrane Family sponsored Talk: Chronic Pain after Breast Surgery: How frequent? Can we prevent it? Management (Guest speakers/Panel : Dr. Amit Gulati, Dr. Jennifer Jones and Dr. James Khan)

2021

  • October 2021 - Interdisciplinary journal club: Breast Cancer Treatment in Older Women (Review of CCO guidelines on management of axilla)

  • October 6, 2021 – TBSC Members update

  • July 22, 2021 - Preserving and restoring sensation after mastectomy with Dr. Anne Peled

  • May 26, 2021 – Interdisciplinary journal club: BIA-ALCL (Dr. Toni Zhong and Dr.  Alex Viezel)

  • April 14, 2021 - Patient Engagement via Social Media with Dr. Deanna Attai

  • January 20, 2021 – Interdisciplinary journal club: RxPonder Results

 

2020

  • November 25, 2020 - Interdisciplinary journal club: TARGIT-A trial (intraoperative radiation therapy)

  • September 30, 2020 - Interdisciplinary journal club: KEYNOTE-522

  • August 20, 2020 – TBSC Member Meeting: Oncoplastic Billing

  • July 9, 2020 – Interdisciplinary journal club: ECOG 2108

  • May 27, 2020 – TBSC Member Meeting: Update on COVID-19 Guidelines

  • March 25, 2020 – TBSC Member Meeting: Summary of COVID -19 guidelines

2015

  • December 2, 2015 - Oncotype DX for DCIS with Dr. Eileen Rakovitch

  • August 11, 2015 - TBSC Member meeting: introduction of new fellows, research project updates and current practice discussion regarding barriers to oncoplastic breast surgery 

2014

*Approved for 1 CME credit for 1 hour in Category 1*

  • October 29, 2014 - Joint meeting with Radiation Oncology (Dr. Eileen Rakovitch and Dr. Peter Chung); research project discussion and current practice discussion ("How often do you excise intraductal papillomas without atypia?")

  • July 10, 2014 - TBSC Member meeting: introduction of new fellows, research project discussion, and current practice discussion ("Do you perform routine SLNB with CPM?")

  • March 30, 2014 - Inaugural meeting: Discussion of Vision, fellow research projects and discussion of new consensus guidelines on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery with Whole Breast Irradiation (M. Moran et al, Ann Surg Oncol Feb 2014)

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