IVth Intl Conference on Cancer-Induced Bone Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）：本次会议将是佩吉特基金会和第四届癌症引起的骨病国际会议的联合会议，将于2003年12月7日至9日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。该会议将与一年一度的圣安东尼奥乳腺癌会议（San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference）毗邻举行，后者是乳腺癌研究人员和临床医生最大的年度国际会议。圣安东尼奥乳腺癌大会每年举行一次，已经有25年的历史了。我们的计划是举办一些由高级和初级研究人员参加的科学会议。除全体会议发言外，我们鼓励在这一迅速发展的领域提交摘要用于海报展示。其中一些摘要将被挑选出来作简短的口头陈述。组委会致力于使本次会议对女性和少数民族研究者以及年轻研究者、研究员、学员和学生具有吸引力。会议将涵盖对该领域最重要的领域，包括乳腺癌、前列腺癌和骨髓瘤引起的骨转移的频谱。该计划的部分内容还将致力于这些恶性肿瘤并发症患者的临床管理，并将包括讨论最新的药物和手术治疗。此外，我们还将介绍目前对这些骨骼恶性肿瘤并发症的诊断方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference will be a joint meeting between the Paget Foundation and the IVth International Conference on Cancer-Induced Bone Diseases and will take place December 7-9, 2003, in San Antonio, Texas. The meeting will be held adjacent to the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference, the largest annual international meeting of breast cancer researchers and clinicians. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference has been held annually for 25 years. Our plan is to hold a number of scientific sessions with a mix of both senior and junior investigators. In addition to plenary presentations, we encourage submission of abstracts for poster presentation in this rapidly developing field. A number of these abstracts will be selected for short oral presentation. The organizing committee is dedicated to making this conference attractive to women and minority investigators as well as young investigators, fellows, trainees, and students. The meeting will cover those areas that are most important to this field including the spectrum of bone metastases caused in breast cancer, prostate cancer, and osteolyic lesions due to myeloma. Segments of the program will also be devoted to the clinical management of patients with these complications of malignancy and will include discussions of the latest pharmacologic and surgical treatments. Attention will also be given to current diagnostic methods for patients with these skeletal complications of malignancy.