NCoBC 2025 Abstract Submission Deadline Date January 31, 2025

You and your breast center are invited to

showcase your research at NCoBC 2025.

The Goal of the NCBC Poster and Abstract program is to

• Facilitate communication between breast care centers
• Disseminate knowledge that may be useful to our members and their patients
• Give recognition to outstanding submissions.

Category I - Breast Center Operations, Administration and Programs

A. Breast Center Office Operations

• 1. Coordinating Clinical Programs
• 2. Multidisciplinary Breast Conference: Development and Management
• 3. Office Procedures: Scheduling, Registration, Billing & Coding
• 4. Efficiency, Productivity & Profitability

B. Administration

• 1. Staffing/Human Resources: Recruitment, Selection, Advancement, Problem-solving
• 2. Financial Resources
• 3. Accounting and Reporting
• 4. Fund Raising

C. Programs

• 1. Psychosocial: Counseling, Support Groups, Peer Volunteers, etc.
• 2. Education & Outreach
• 3. High Risk Program
• 4. Novel Patient Flow Algorithms

Category II – Patient Care and Support

A. Nursing

• 1. Nursing Care of Breast Cancer Patients
• 2. Innovative Nursing Roles

B. Breast Cancer Navigation

• 1. Roles of Nurse and Lay Navigators
• 2. Innovative Navigator Roles

C. Integrative, Supportive and Palliative Care

• 1. Nutrition
• 2. Exercise
• 3. Sexual Health and Sexuality
• 4. Other Integrative/Supportive Care Issues
• 5. Palliative Care

D. Breast Cancer Genetics/Screening

E. Complementary and Alternative Care

F. Survivorship Care

G. Lymphedema

Category III – Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Management

A. Diagnostic Imaging

• 1. Screening and Diagnostic Mammography
• 2. Ultrasound
• 3. MRI
• 4. Novel Imaging or Positioning Techniques

B. Pathologic Evaluation and Biomarkers

C. Breast Surgery

• 1. Surgical Techniques
• 2. New Surgical Approaches, including Oncoplastic Surgery
• 3. Nodal Evaluation
• 4. Plastic Surgery/Breast Reconstruction

D. Medical Oncology – Early Stage and Advanced Disease

• 1. Chemotherapy
• 2. Hormonal Therapy
• 3. Targeted and Biologic Therapies
• 4. Medical Oncology Decision Making

E. Radiation Oncology

• 1. Traditional vs. Partial Breast Radiation
• 2. New Radiation Technologies
• 3. Radiation Oncology Decision Making

Submission Deadline Date January 31, 2025

Submit your Abstracts to NCoBC 2025 with an opportunity to publish your work in the European Journal of Breast Health

NCoBC 2025 Reviewers will submit the top 10-15 abstracts to be published.

The European Journal of Breast Health is an international, scientific, open access periodical published by independent, unbiased, and double-blinded peer-review principled journal.

NCBC Special Recognition

2024 Poster/Abstract Award Winners

Category 1

Title: Demographic Impact and Clinical Insights: A Comprehensive Analysis of Glycogen-Rich Carcinoma of the Breast Using National Cancer Database Data (2004-2020)

Authors: Michael Richard Demangone, Karam Abi Karam, Amaan Zafar, Daniel Lee, Suraj Puvvadi, Noureen Nakshbandi, Beau Hsia, Nicholas Heng, Patrick Sam, Will Heise, Peter Silberstein 

Category 2

Title: Cancer Risk Assessment and Hereditary Cancer Genetic Testing in a Community OBGYN Setting

Authors: Edith Smith, Logan Schneider, Lauren Lenz, Amanda Steele, Katherine Johansen Taber, Royce T. Adkins

Category 3

Title: Performance Metrics of Screening Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Based on Age

Authors: Manisha Bahl

Fellow Winner

Title: Axillary Ultrasound of Patients With and Without Breast Cancer: Sonographic Predictors of Malignancy  

Authors: J. Gu, E. H. Dibble, G. L. Baird, S. Ram

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