ANNOUNCEMENT

© 2000 Blackwell Science Inc., 1075-122X/00/$15.00/0The Breast Journal, Volume 6, Number 5, 2000 359–360

XIth International Congress of

Senology Meeting Summary

The new Board of Directors of the Senologic Interna-tional Society (S.I.S) elected during the XIth Interna-tional Congress of Senology in Cancun, May 13–18,2000 is as follows:

President

Carlos Sanchez Basurto (Mexico)

President Elect

Ruben Orda (Israel)

Past President

Jose Cardoso da Silva (Portugal)

Vice Presidents

Africa, Australia, Asia

Jack Jellins (Australia)

Europe

Bruno Salvadori (Italy)

North America

Terry Mamounas (USA)

South America

Henrique Moraes Salvador (Brazil)

Secretary General

Jorge Novelli (Argentina)

Treasurer

Miguel Mate Bun (Uruguay)

Chairman of the Standing Committee

Vitor Veloso (Portugal)

Deputy Secretary

Ernesto Sanchez Forgach (Mexico)

Auditors

Mark Gittleman (USA) and Ezio Novais Dias (Brazil)

Also, several new societies have been accepted to be-come part of the S.I.S:

American Society of Breast Surgeons

Breast Cancer Society of TaiwanChinese Senologic SocietyHong Kong Senologic SocietyKasakhstan Senologic SocietyKenyan Senologic SocietyNigeria Senologic SocietyRussian Senologic SocietyTanzania Senologic Society

Cancun 2000 was a complete success. The XIth Inter-national Congress of Senology of the Senologic Interna-tional Society (S.I.S.), the XIth Latin American Congressof Mastology of the Latin American Federation of Mas-tology (F.L.A.M.), and the 2nd National Congress ofMastology of the Mexican Association of Mastology(A.M.M.) took place in the midst of beautiful Cancun’sFiesta Americana Coral Beach Hotel, with the presenceof around 1,000 delegates (of whom close to 300 partic-ipated in the program) who came from 45 differentcountries. The scientific program was the most out-standing of its kind with world renowned professors ofthe highest scientific level who joined to share the latestfindings in the fields of research protocols, new drugs,monoclonal antibodies, novel surgical and radiologicaltechniques, significance of prognostic factors, psycho-oncological support, genetics, plastic reconstruction, andradiotherapy. Special recongnitions were awarded foroutstanding career achievements and support to the SISto Professor Eliezer Robinson (Israel), Chairman ofthe Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC); Pro-fessor Umberto Veronessi (Italy), Italy’s Minister ofHealth and former Chairman of the UICC; and Dr. An-tonio Figueira Fo, former President of the SIS and alsoformer President of the Standing Committee, who re-ceived the Ch. M. Gros award. The National SurgicalAdjuvant Breast Project (NSAPB) award was be-stowed upon Harry Bear, David Krag, Terry Mamou-

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nas, Lawrence Wickerham, and its Chairman, NormanWolmark.

The scientific progam presented the following twelvemaster lectures:

1) CHEMOPREVENTION IN THE MANAGEMENTOF THE HIGH RISK PATIENT: Michael Osborne(USA)

2) SENOLOGY AS A SPECIALTY: PAST, PRESENT,AND FUTURE: Antonio Figueira Fo (Brazil)

3) USE OF THE ANTIHER2-NEU ANTIBODY HER-CEPTIN IN THE TREATMENT OF HUMANBREAST CANCER: Dennis Slamon (USA)

4) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HEREDITARYBREAST CANCER: Henry T. Lynch (USA)

5) CLINICAL TRIALS AND THE EVOLUTION OFBREAST CANCER THERAPY: Norman Wolmark(USA)

6) BIOLOGY OF DCIS AS REVEALED IN OUT-COME STUDIES OF BREAST CONSERVATIVESURGERY: Michael Lagios (USA)

7) DCIS: THE PROBLEMS AS WE ENTER THENEW MILLENIUM: Melvin Silverstein (USA)

8) PREVENTION VS. SUPPRESSION IN HUMANBREAST CANCER: Jose Russo (USA)

9) RECENT ADVANCES IN CANCER IMMUNO-THERAPY: Gideon Berke (Israel)

10) SECOND PRIMARY TUMOR IN PATIENTSWITH BRCA1 AND BRCA2 POSITIVE BREASTCANCER: Eliezer Robinson (Israel)

11) BONE MARROW MICROMETASTASES: APROGNOSTIC FACTOR IN BREAST CANCER?Michael Osborne (USA)

12) THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SENOLOGY:Miguel Prats Esteve (Spain)

In addition, seventy lectures were presented by thefollowing outstanding invited speakers: Estuardo Agui-lar Cordova (USA), Roberto Angioli (USA), EdwardAzavedo (Sweden), Alfredo Barros (Brazil), Harry Bear(USA), Gideon Berke (Israel), Edgardo Bernardello (Ar-

gentina), Cari Borras (Spain), Amman Buzdar (USA),Eduardo Cazap (Argentina), Guadalupe Cervantes (Mex-ico), Gary Clark (USA), David Dershaw (USA), MichaelDrever (Canada), Sandra Dunn (USA), Enzo Durante(Italy), Stephen A. Feig, Alfonso Fernandez Cid (Spain),Bruno D. Fornage (USA), Dido Franceschi (USA), MarkGittleman (USA), Antonio Gomez (Spain), Ivan Gonza-lez (Venezuela), Ferran Guedea (Spain), Harold Harvey(USA), Gerardo Hernandez Muñoz (Venezuela), Anto-nio Herrero Jimenez (Spain), Bruce Hillner (USA), Clif-ford Hudis (USA), W.A. Kaiser (Germany), David Krag(USA), Ernst Kubista (Austria), Michael Lagios (USA),Victor Lira Puerto (Mexico), Ana Lluch (Spain), CarlosLopes (Portugal), Marvin J. Lopez (USA), Susan Love(USA), Henry T. Lynch (USA), Fernando MagallanesNegrete (Mexico), Terri Mamounas (USA), Juan Mar-gossian (Argentina), Larry Marks (USA), Hugo Mar-siglia (Italy), Shahla Masood (USA), Jean Jacques Maze-ron, Gilberto Morgan Villeda (Mexico), Jean MarcNabholz, Omgo Nieweg (the Netherlands), Ruben Orda(Israel), Roberto Orecchia (Italy), Gregorio Perez Pala-cios (Mexico), Susan O’Reilly (Canada), Michael Os-borne (USA), Giovanni Paganelli (Italy), Lori Pierce(USA), Jose Pinotti (Brazil), Jeanne Petrek (USA),Gabriel Pulido Cejudo (Canada), Luisa Rafailivici(Argentina), Guillermo Ramirez (Colombia), CarolynSartor (USA), Bruno Salvadori (Italy), Joao Carlos Sam-paio Goes (Brazil), Mark Schusterman (USA), EdwardA. Sickles (USA), Rache Simmons (USA), Dennis Slamon(USA), Aaron Sulkes (Israel), William Svensson (GreatBritain), Vicente Valero (USA), C.J.H. van de Velde (theNetherlands), Hernan Vargas (USA), Gonzalo VargasChacon (Costa Rica), Carlos Vazquez Albaladejo (Spain),Vitor Velosa (Portugal), Lawrence Wickerham (USA),Norman Wollmark (USA), and Fernando Gerardo Zor-noza (Spain).

Sixteen Symposia were conducted and presented byseveral of our invited speakers. There were also ten Con-troversies and eighteen Roundtables. Finally, a very suc-cessful novel format was proposed and carried out bythe Cancun 2000 Organizing Committee of thirty sixDiscussion Tables–informal conversation between ex-perts in which all participants exchange their experi-ences with the public surrounding them to be able to askall questions directly; this awoke enormous interest.