ECTS Newsletter | April 2019
Your monthly news & updates
ECTS Announcements and Events
  • Do not miss the ECTS exciting activities and events. Renew your 2019 ECTS membership  here
  • ECTS 2019 pre-congress and congress register with regular fee deadline 19 April 2019. See scientific programme here. Register here.
  • 9th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) - late breaking abstracts submission deadline 22 April 2019. Meeting website
  • ECTS Webinar: Clinical guidelines on diagnosis and management of Paget's disease of bone by Stuart Ralston, April 25th 2019 4 pm CEST -  Register here
  • Bisphosphonates' 50th anniversary meeting, Sheffield, UK 15-17 July 2019 - More information
  • ECTS PhD Training Course 2019, 8-10 September 2019, Bologna, Italy -   More information
  • ECTS-Mellanby-SVGO Training Course on Diagnostic Tests for Osteoporosis "Bone Turnover Markers", 12 September 2019, Basel, Switzerland - More information
The ECTS 2019 Educational Programme: Everything you always wanted to know about bone
By Bo Abrahamsen & Laurence Legeai-Mallet


The ECTS 2019 congress will offer delegates a number of educational activities, fulfilling the ECTS mission to disseminate scientific excellence and education. The Budapest meeting offers an excellent one-stop opportunity for learning from and interacting with top scientists and clinicians. This applies not only to those who are new to the field or want to expand their skills to other areas of calcified tissue research, but also to those who simply want to ensure that they have not missed any key developments or new techniques

Read more
Enhance your career with a mentor
by Hermann Agis

It is difficult for young investigators to find coaching and mentoring outside of their institutions. However, if you want to succeed in your career you need in addition to high quality research and persistence also high quality mentoring. The ECTS Academy Mentoring program represents a unique opportunity for young investigators to be matched with an experienced professional and mentor for career coaching, support and guidance. This program is based on one-to-one communication to boost the skills, knowledge and performance of the mentee.
Read more
ECTS on Vitamin D recommendations
by Paul Lips

The ECTS Working Group on Vitamin D has published a Position Paper entitled "Current vitamin D status in European and Middle East cou ntries and strategies to prevent vitamin D deficiency". In this paper, causes, consequences and prevention of v itamin D deficiency in Europe and the Middle East are discussed.  Vitamin D deficiency is common, more in Southern Europe and the Middle East than in Northern Europe. 
Read more

Denosumab in breast cancer.
By Cristiana Cipriani
 
The use of antiresorptive agents for treating bone loss associated with hormone deprivation therapy in patients with breast cancer is an established therapy, particularly in women on aromatase inhibitors. Bisphosphonates and denosumab are successfully adopted in these contexts. 

An increasing attention has been paid in the last years on the cancer-specific effect of antiresorptive drugs, with positive evidence from studies on bisphosphonates on breast cancer recurrence, survival and cancer-related skeletal events. In this month newsletter we highlight new encouraging evidence in such field associated with the use of denosumab in postmenopausal women with non-metastatic breast adenocarcinoma and positive estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors or both treated with aromatase inhibitors. The disease-free survival was assessed as a secondary endpoint and resulted significantly higher in the denosumab group compared to placebo. In particular, distant metastases and occurrence of new primary cancer were significantly lower in women treated with denosumab.

Data from this study needs further validation on many aspects of such a relevant topic that will help to make important progresses and eventually influence clinical practice.

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
ECTS Announcements and Events
  • Do not miss the ECTS exciting activities and events. Renew your 2019 ECTS membership  here
  • ECTS 2019 pre-congress and congress register with regular fee deadline 19 April 2019. See scientific programme here. Register here.
  • 9th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) - late breaking abstracts submission deadline 22 April 2019. Meeting website
  • ECTS Webinar: Clinical guidelines on diagnosis and management of Paget's disease of bone by Stuart Ralston, April 25th 2019 4 pm CEST -  Register here
  • Bisphosphonates' 50th anniversary meeting, Sheffield, UK 15-17 July 2019 - More information
  • ECTS PhD Training Course 2019, 8-10 September 2019, Bologna, Italy -   More information
  • ECTS-Mellanby-SVGO Training Course on Diagnostic Tests for Osteoporosis "Bone Turnover Markers", 12 September 2019, Basel, Switzerland - More information
Quick Links
ECTS is thankful to its Corporate Members and other companies that have supported ECTS activities through unrestricted educational grants. These sponsors have in no way contributed to or influenced the content.
STAY CONNECTED:
Editor in chief: Teun De Vries (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Co-editors: Carmen Huesa (Edinburgh, UK), Cristiana Cipriani (Rome, Italy)
Marco Ponzetti (L'Aquila, Italy)