Nottingham 2027 - Virtual National Breast Pathology Update Course
Friday 16 April 2027 – 09.30 to 16.30 UK Time
2027
Virtual National Breast Pathology Update Course
Slide Seminar
2026 Slide Seminar Cases
Access the 2026 Slide Seminar Cases by simply clicking on the slide thumbnail images – access as ‘GUEST‘. Once you have viewed all the slides relating to each case please enter your Diagnosis via the linked Mentimeter Form below.
Areeg Abbas
Case 1
27 year old female with cosmetic breast implants. Biopsy left breast upper inner quadrant U3.
Negative: P63, CK5/6, CK14, MNF116, AE1/3, CAM5.2, CK7, Beta catenin.
1 slide core biopsy
1 slide diagnostic excision
Case 2
41 year old female, enlarged lymph nodes ?breast ?other
Core biopsy H&E, Ecad, ER
Shauna Casey
Case 3
Breast excision 76 year old male
H&E, AE1/3, B catenin, CD34, Desmin, SACT
Case 4
Breast excision – 35 year old female
H&E, AE1/3, CD34, Desmin
Yasmeen Mir
Case 5
Breast core biopsy – 35 year old female – lump in axillary tail ?lymph node ?other – H&E, AE1/3, B catenin, Desmin, MNF116, S100, SMA and excision H&E
Case 6
Breast core biopsy – 47 year old female – Right breast upper outer ?100mm hypoechoic area ?infection U2 – H&E
Sue Pritchard
Case 7
70 year old female – Excision breast H&E
Case 8
82 year old female – core biopsy breast H&E
Preethi Gopinath
Case 9
70 year old female – Right breast P2 12 o’clock lump U2 10mm linear benign lesion. Screening mammogram October 2024 NAD. Biopsy and excision.
Scientific Programme
Scientific Programme
Session 1 - EQA/ Screening Session - Chair: Dr Elena Provenzano
09.30 Dr Elena Provenzano - Welcome & introduction
09.35 Professor Emad Rakha - EQA outlier cases - what pathologists find difficult
09.50 Professor Ian Ellis – EQA: digital versus glass – insights from Breast EQA
10.05 Dr Rahul Deb – NHS BSP Pathology review data
10.20 Professor Cecily Quinn – ICCR datasets; what’s new
10.35 Dr Silvana DiPalma – Prosigna testing; what has changed since Optima
10.50 Questions and Discussion
11.00 TEA BREAK
Session 2 - TNBC Session - Chair: Professor Ian Ellis
11.00 Professor Sarah Pinder - Special types of TNBC
11.40 Dr Elena Provenzano -TNBC biomarkers and neoadjuvant response
12.10 Jean Abraham (to be confirmed) - Update on oncological management of TNBC including immunotherapy and BRCA
12.40 Questions and Discussion
12.55 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3 - Slide Seminar 1 - Fibroepithelial Lesions - Chair: Professor Cecily Quinn
13.30 Puay Hoon Tan, Rebecca Millican-Slater, Cecily Quinn, Philip Schouten - 5 cases
14.30 Speaker to be confirmed - Update on surgical management of Phyllodes tumours
14.50 TEA BREAK
Session 4 - Slide Seminar 2 - Papillary Lesions and Mimics - Chair: Professor Abeer Shaaban
15.00 Abeer Shaaban, Mieke von Bockstal, Preethi Gopinath, Shauna Casey, Sue Pritchard - 6 cases
16.10 General Questions and Discussion
16.20 Ask the experts
16.30 Meeting Close
NOTE: All times are UK
CPD Approval
The Course has been approved for CPD points for the course from the Royal College of Pathologists. ALL registered attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation as a PDF within a week of the course.
Course - 5 CPD Points
Slide Case Submission - 2 CPD Points
