Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Ouissam Al Jarroudi, MD, is a medical oncologist in the medical oncology department at Mohammed VI University Hospital, Oujda. She earned her medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco. She has done fellowships at Department of Medical Oncology, Paul Brousse Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris, France. Her research interest is mainly prognostic and predictive biomarkers in breast cancer.  She is member of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Khalid El Bairi is the founder of The Cancer Biomarkers Working Group, and he is pursuing clinical and translational research in medical oncology. He has published many peer-reviewed articles in the field of predictive and prognostic cancer biomarkers to improve survival outcomes in several WoS and Medline-indexed journals. His research focuses particularly on biomarkers for digestive and gynecological cancers such as ovarian and colorectal malignancies. He is a member of the board of various international scientific societies such as the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO), and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). He is an editor and reviewer for more than 40 journals including BMC Cancer, PLoS ONE and Frontiers in Oncology and a guest editor for several special issues on gynecological cancers including Seminars in Cancer Biology and Current Drug Targets. ​Giuseppe Curigliano, MD PhD, is Associate Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milano and the Head of the Division of Early Drug Development at the European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Italy. He is a clinician and researcher specialising in early drug development for patients with solid tumours with a special commitment to breast cancer. He has been a member of the Italian National Health Council since 2018 and, in 2019, he served as Chair of the Scientific Committee of The Lega Nazionale Lotta ai Tumori. He has served as a Member of the ESMO Breast Cancer Faculty since 2001 and he is currently the Faculty Coordinator. He has also served on the Scientific Committee for the St Gallen Conference since 2011, and was the Scientific Co-Chair in St Gallen 2017 and 2019. He has been an Editorial Board Member for Annals of Oncology since 2014, and serves as Co-Editor in Chief of The Breast, Co-Editor in Chief of Cancer Treatment Reviews, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Cancer, Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. He also serves on the European School of Oncology (ESO) faculty committee.  

Antibody-drug conjugates.- Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes as a Surrogate Biomarker for PD-L1.- Immune checkpoint inhibitors.- Screening programs for breast cancer.- Transversal perspectives of integrative oncology care.- Assessment and response to neoadjuvant treatments.- Precision surgery for the treatment of breast cancer.- A precise approach for radiation therapy of breast cancer.- Fast mimicking diets and other innovative nutritional interventions to treat patients with breast cancer.- Endocrine resistance of breast cancer.- Innovative therapeutic approaches for patients with HER2- positive breast cancer.- Management of patients with breast cancer and brain metastasis.- New concepts in cardio-oncology.- Clinical utility, cost-effectiveness, and budgetary impact of next-generation sequencing in metastatic breast cancer.- ONCOLLEGE-001: The global landscape on the access to cancer medicines for breast cancer.