An international conference on breast cancer care is to begin at NUI Galway tomorrow. The second International Breast Cancer Conference will run from Thursday 18 to Friday 19 June and will be of interest to all professionals involved in breast cancer management including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and breast care nurses.

Professor John Crown, Consultant Medical Oncologist at St Vincent's University Hospital and St Luke's Hospital, Dublin will deliver a keynote lecture entitled 'Future in Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment' tomorrow at 5pm.

Several of the speakers are well known internationally and include a 'who's who’ of leading experts from America, the UK and Ireland.

Local Galway contributors, apart from Professor Kerin, include Dr Maccon Keane, Professor Frank Sullivan, Mr Ray McLaughlin, Mr Karl Sweeney and Professor Grace Callagy.

The conference is being held in conjunction with the Nottingham series of meetings, which take place on alternate years. For 20 years, the Nottingham meeting has been the best attended and most influential breast cancer meting on these islands and the Galway meeting aims to ensure that these meetings are now annual events.

The two-day conference takes place in the Arts Millennium Building on the NUI Galway campus. For further information, contact Grace Clarke at 091-524390 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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