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St. Gallen/Vienna 2025 Summary of Key Messages on Therapy in Early Breast Cancer from the 2025 St. Gallen
Nina Ditsch1,2, Michael Gnant3,4, Christoph Thomssen5
1Gynecology, Obstetrics and Senology, Breast Center, CCC Augsburg, University Hospital Augsburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
Background:
In 2025, the St. Gallen Conference was held from March 12th-15th, with the largest attendance since the pandemic and more than 3,000 participants from over 100 countries.
Summary:
The conference chairs professionally guided through the program on Early Breast Cancer, featuring abstracts submitted from all over the world. In addition, Prof. Dr. Herold J. Burstein (USA) led the panel through the difficult topics of local and systemic treatment modalities in an excellent, clearly structured and engaging way. Almost 80 experts from all continents and more than 30 nations formed the panel and summarized the current literature in excellent presentations and discussions.
Key Messages:
Final voting covered the topics of genetic testing, DCIS, breast and axillary surgery, radiation therapy, systemic treatment based on subtypes, treatment of the elderly, therapy of local-regional recurrence and oligometastatic breast cancer.
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