Welcome

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the organizing committee, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to the BreastScreen Australia conference, to be held in Melbourne October 28-30 2011. This conference will celebrate twenty years of the Australian Breast Cancer Screening Program, showcasing learnings & innovative solutions to the challenge of breast screening in Australia and examining opportunities for further developments. The conference program will explore major themes, including breast density, digital imaging, sustainable workforce creation and recruitment of hard to reach women – spanning topics from breast imaging technology to changes in everyday clinical practice.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Stephen Duffy as the keynote speaker for this conference. Professor Duffy is a highly respected expert on cancer screening and epidemiology who is widely published and a renowned public speaker His team have made valuable contributions in assessing the issue of over-diagnosis through mammographic screening. We can look forward to enlightening discussions about over-diagnosis, allowing clinicians, researchers and consumers to respond to this hot topic.

As breast cancer screening in Australia enters its third decade, we look forward to examining our achievements and learning thus far and inviting innovative responses to the challenges of providing high quality services to Australian women across this vast and diverse country.

We invite you to join us and three hundred of your colleagues in Melbourne for an interesting and successful conference. We are confident that whatever your discipline, you will find the experience stimulating and enjoyable.

On behalf of the committee I look forward to welcoming you to Melbourne in October 2011

Regards

Vicki Pridmore
Chair Conference Committee

Who Should Attend:

• Administrators
• Breast Physicians
• Consumer Groups
• Counselors
• GPs
• Health Promotion Workers
• Medical Officers
• Nurses
• Pathologists
• Public Health Physicians
• Public Health Workers
• Radiographers
• Radiologists
• Researchers
• Surgeons