Barcelona Breast Meeting: redefining breast surgery: sharing experience and building knowledge

-Joint service of plastic surgery of the Hospital de Sant Pau and the Hospital del Mar organized from 13 to 15 March the Breast Meeting Barcelona, encounter where 30 world experts, together with more than 300 professionals, discuss new advances on surgery oncoplastic and Reconstructive and aesthetic breast

-the meeting consist of papersLive surgeries and working sessions where the most current techniques will be presented in breast surgery to optimize results, reduce complications and promote further research and development in this area of plastic surgery

– in addition, addressed the treatment of sequelae of the breast cancer in older women or with a physical Constitution of low body mass

Barcelona, March of 2013.- after more than 10 years organizing international meetings of plastic surgery, the Hospital de Sant Pau is still the real motor of innovation and knowledge in this discipline, not just in southern Europe but also internationally. In this sense, despite the moment of crisis, the meeting gets reunite 30 world experts Рincluding Robert Allen (USA), Andrew Baildam (United Kingdom) and Fr̩d̩ric Kolb (France) Рmore than 300 professionals from 22 countries (Europe, Asia and America). It also has the support of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, has chosen Barcelona to present the latest news in breast cancer surgery.

Two types of innovative surgical interventions that expand the range of surgical resources to deal with breast cancer and the consequences of their treatment is practiced for the first time in Europe. They are the Microsurgical reconstruction with flaps of the armor-piercing of the deep femoral (PAP) and the technique of Breast Sharing, which consists in making a new chest using one of the other healthy.

As a novelty, the Barcelona Breast Meeting implements the latest technology in communications to scientific meetings, through a mobile application that will allow attendees to address real-time coordinators of work tables, getting that dialogue and interaction is much more active.

The service of plastic surgery of the Hospital de Sant Pau and the Hospital del Mar is pioneer in the application of the latest techniques in breast reconstruction, including the reconstruction by own (autologous) tissue of the patient and the surgical treatment of lymphedema.
One in 10 women suffer from breast cancer in the Western world. In Spain, where is the type of tumor that causes more number of deaths in women, each year 20,000 new cases are diagnosed.

Barcelona Breast Meeting has the support of the SECPRE (Spanish society of Plastic Reconstructive and aesthetic surgery), SESPM (Spanish society of Senology and breast Pathology) and (The European Association of Plastic Surgeons) EURAPS.