Lectures and seminars Faculty event: Jana de Boniface

Title

Right-sizing breast cancer treatment - a difficult balance

Abstract 

The latest years have seen an accelerating approval of new breast cancer drugs, improving oncological outcomes for patients but also adding an increased treatment burden and challenging complexities to a multidisciplinary patient-centered approach. Surgery is one of the areas which has responded to this development with multiple de-escalation trials, which create a new dilemma by reducing staging information to individualise drug treatment. This talk will give a short overview of some key de-escalation efforts and parallel (pharmaceutical) escalation efforts, trying to understand how to navigate wisely in an era of significant change without loosing sight of what matters most to each individual patient.

About the speaker

Jana de Boniface is a breast surgeon with a focus on oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery, proudly working at S:t Göran's Hospital with a great team of colleagues two days per week. The remaining time is filled with too many new trials and projects, conference talks and surgical education projects, trying to gauge harm and benefit in surgical approaches to breast cancer in a rapidly changing landscape. Jana moved to MEB from MMK in 2024 and holds a post as adjunct professor surrounded by a wonderful bunch of PhD students, a smart fellow and indispensable project manager.

Faculty lunch

Join the faculty event in Wargentin! After the seminar, the faculty lunch will be served in Ljusgården. The faculty lunches are intended for employees at MEB, and a monthly net salary deduction of 260 SEK will be made for those who work here 20% or more. If you have any questions about the lunch or specific dietary needs due to allergies, etc, please contact internservice@meb.ki.se. If you won’t be participating in the lunches for all or part of the spring term, our new routine is that you need to contact hr-support@meb.ki.se at the start of a new term, to be removed from the list. Retroactive adjustments will not be possible.  

Please, check the labelling on the salads not to take special diet foods that were pre-ordered by your colleagues.