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A calendar of events for the medical community is presented including the 6th Annual Royal Marsden Breast Cancer Meeting, in London, England on September 13, 2013, the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme Conference in London, England from October 9-10, 2013, and the 6th Annual Pain and Opioid Conference in London, England on November 1, 2013.

The article offers information on medical conferences including the 6th Annual Royal Marsden Breast Cancer Meeting: Hot Topics in Breast Cancer in London, England on September 13, 2013, the 18th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI) in Vienna, Austria from October 24-27, 2013, and the 6th Annual Pain and Opioid Conference in London, England on November 1, 2013.

The article offers information on several events in 2011 including the 12th Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference in St. Gallen Switzerland on March 16-19, the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2011) at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on July 3-7, and the Erasmus Summer Programme 2011 at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands on August 15 to September 2.

A calendar of events related to health and medicine to be held from March to August 2011 is presented which includes the 12th St Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference in Switzerland, 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the course called "Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children at St Catherine's College in Oxford, England.

Comments on a consensus conference in Paris on breast cancer and the Scotland/France Rugby union match. European Society of Mastology; Issuing of a bland statement on breast cancer screening; Mammography; Ductal carcinoma in situ; More.

Focuses on the 1st European Breast Cancer Conference held in Florence, Italy in autumn 1998. Treatment consensus; Statement by Richard Peto, University of Oxford, England, on overview of the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group; Comment about subgroup analysis. INSET: Extracts from the Florence Statement.

Reports on the March 1998 meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Investigation in Atlanta, Georgia, which discussed genetic causes of and gene therapies for breast and ovarian cancer. Report by D.G. Kieback of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, on the PROGINs allele of the human progesterone receptor; Report by O. Dorigo of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, on immunotherapy.

Reports that the United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research (UKCCCR) brought together breast-cancer trialists in London, England on December 5, 1996. Tony Howell, the chair of the UKCCCR, and his call for better education of patients and better information for doctors about different studies; A listing of different studies, including treatment, screening, and prevention trials.