ROOM FOR PATHOLOGISTS - PRACTICAL UPDATE ON WORKING IN CASES ELIGIBLE FOR NEOADJUVANT THERAPY – DAIICHI SANKYO
2 pm – 5 pm
Ângela Flavia Logullo Waitzberg (BRA)
Coordinator
Cristiane Nimir (BRA)
Coordinator
PART 1 UPDATE ON THE APPROACH TO CASES UNDERGOING NEOADJUVANT THERAPY FOR PATHOLOGISTS
2 pm – 3:30 pm
Augusto Tufi Hassan (BRA)
Debaters
Allisson Bruno Barcelos Borges (BRA)
Debaters
Amanda Assis Lima Lopes (BRA)
Debaters
2 pm – 2:25 pm Update on the macroscopic approach to the surgical specimen in neoadjuvant therapy: difficulties beyond the guidelines
Ângela Flavia Logullo Waitzberg (BRA)
• Identification and description of the tumor bed
• Organization and registration of the piece
• Adequate representation where “more is always more”
• When to represent more where the limit is?
2:25 pm – 2:30 pm Questions
2:30 pm – 2:55 pm Microscopic evaluation
Karla Kabbach (BRA)
• Je suis@ RCB
• Does the ideal report exist?
• How to report multicentricity and multifocality?
• How to classify DCIS?
• How to classify lymphatic invasion?
• What would the ideal report be like?
2:55 pm – 3 pm Questions
3 pm – 3:20 pm Staging of residual disease in lymph nodes
Gabriela Moura de Paula (BRA)
• When it is exclusive
• When we only have isolated cells and/or lymphatic invasion
• When there is no aggregated lymphoid tissue
• When only fibrosis remains
• The role of immunohistochemistry
3:20 pm – 3:25 Questions
MOVE TO ROOM G.
3:25 pm – 4 pm Coffee Break
PART 2
4 pm – 5 pm Multidisciplinary discussion of 1 clinical case containing the complex characteristics of a neoadjuvant therapy case together with all mastologists and pathologists. MOVE TO ROOM G.
