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The 18th Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course

7 November 2025

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Welcome To Our Virtual Course

Friday, November 7th, 2025

Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course 2025

I would like to invite you to our 2025 annual multi-disciplinary breast course in partnership with University of Birmingham. The course will be delivered virtually for the sixth time!

This is an exciting opportunity to learn from the experts in an interactive and interesting way. The course will provide an update on challenging breast lesions, latest guidelines, educational MDT scenarios, Questions and Answers and slide seminar.

Confirmed speakers: Professors Sarah Pinder (London), Emad Rakha (Nottingham), Cecily Quinn (Dublin), Abeer Shaaban (Birmingham), and Daniel Rea (Birmingham), Dr Clinton Boyd (Belfast), Dr Elena Provenzano (Cambridge) and Ms Salena Bains (Birmingham), Mr Naren Basu (Birmingham), Dr Nisha Sharma (Leeds), Miss Raghavan Vidya (Wolverhampton), Dr Bruce Tanchel (Birmingham) and Dr Soha El Sheikh (UCL London).

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Delegates Feedback

"Just great, keep going! I find these types of courses very refreshing! Thank you for answering to all my questions!"

Saudi Arabia, Pathologist

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"Excellent mix of topics and speakers"

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"Excellent course as always. I attend every year"

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"Very well organise, I attend every year through my latter years of training (now ST5 and will specialise in breast)"

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Who should attend

• Practising pathologists
• Pathology Fellows and Trainees
• Biomedical Scientists

Welcome To Our Faculty

Professor Sarah Pinder

Professor of breast pathology and honorary consultant breast pathologist
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Emad Rakha

Professor and Consultant Pathologist
Nottingham Breast Pathology Research Group

Professor Abeer Shaaban

Consultant Pathologist
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Ms Salena Bains

Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
Birmingham

Mr Naren Basu

Lead Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Solihull Hospital in Birmingham

Dr Elena Provenzano

Chief Pathologist
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Cecily Quinn

Consultant Histopathologist
St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH), Dublin, Ireland

Professor Daniel Rea

Professor of Medical Oncology
University of Birmingham

Dr Nisha Sharma

Breast Radiologist
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Miss Raghavan Vidya

Consultant General Surgeon
Royal Wolverhampton Hospital

2025 Programme

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The sponsors of this course are supporting the provision of the virtual platform for this meeting and have had no input to the content or agenda.

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Friday, November 7th, 2025
9.15am to 5.00pm

The Course is livestreamed via Zoom Webinar, Q&A will be curated by the Session Moderators with questions being submitted via the Live Q&A.

7 CPD Credits are available to Participants of the Course (Pending Approval)

If you have any queries, feel free to email us at any time using geoffcross@birminghambreastpathology.org

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09.15–09.30 – Welcome and introduction

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09.30 – Session 1: Moderator: Sarah Pinder

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09.30-09.55 – Novel therapies for ER positive breast cancer, Oral SERDS and ESR1, AKT/PTEN testing – Prof Dan Rea

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09.55-10.15 – HER2 low scoring – manually versus AI algorithms – Mr Andy Dodson

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10.15-10.35 – What is new in the UK core biopsy/non-operative reporting guidelines – Dr Clinton Boyd

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10.35-11.05 – Epithelial atypia in fibroepithelial lesions, incidence, diagnosis and management – Prof Abeer Shaaban

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11.05-11.20 – Break

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11.20 – Session 2: Moderator: Dr Elena Provenzano

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11.20- 11.50 – Intraductal epithelial proliferation including apocrine proliferations – Prof Sarah Pinder

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11.50-12.20 – Classification, diagnosis and management of papillary lesions of the breast – Prof Emad Rakha

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12.20-12.50 – Making sense of breast metastases -–Dr Elena Provenzano

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12.50-13.20 – My approach to inflammatory lesions of the breast – Prof Cecily Quinn

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13.20-14.00 – Lunch Break

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14.00 - Session 3: Moderator: Prof Emad Rakha

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14.00 – 14:30 – Practical approach to breast lesions with heterologous component – Prof Abeer Shaaban

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14.30-15.00 – New guidance on radiological axillary node assessment – what pathologists need to know – Dr Nisha Sharma

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15.00 - MDT Scenarios to learn from, Q&A –
Moderator: Prof Sarah Pinder

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15.00 -16.00 – Panel:
Pathology: Profs: Sarah Pinder, Cecily Quinn, Emad Rakha, Abeer Shaaban, Dr Elena Provenzano
Surgery: Mr Naren Basu, Miss Salena Bains, Miss Raghavan Vidya
Oncology: Prof Dan Rea
Imaging: Dr Nisha Sharma

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16.00-17.00 - Slide Seminar, Questions and Answers

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17.00 - Course Closes

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Register for the 2023 Virtual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course - EARLY BIRD PRICING until 30 September

Register for 16th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course – 7 CPD Credits have been applied for and are available to Participants of the Course
NOTE: you are purchasing a single registration for the Virtual Course. The Course will be livestreamed in HD on the day with HD Screencasts being available until the end of January 2024.

REGISTRATION

Please register here for your attendance at the 2025 Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course to be held Friday, 7th November, 2025.

Early Bird fee – £80 registration on or before 31st August 2025
Course fee – £100 registration on or after 1st September 2025

Access credentials will be distributed in the week prior to the Course. Virtual Cases to be discussed in the Slide Seminar are available via menu at top of web page.

Following the course, all delegates will be invited to provide feedback. CPD certificates will be circulated as PDFs. Access to individual presentation recordings as HD Screencases will be provided at same time as CPD certificates with access being until end of January 2026.

BBPUC2025-Full

£100.00

Register for the 18th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course as a Full Delegate.

NOTE: you are purchasing a single registration for the Virtual Course. The Course will be livestreamed in HD on the day with HD Screencasts being available until end of January 2026.

BBPUC2025-Trainee

£60.00

Register for the 18th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course as a Trainee.

NOTE: you are purchasing a single registration for the Virtual Course. The Course will be livestreamed in HD on the day with HD Screencasts being available until end of January 2026.

BBPUC2025-LDC

£50.00

Register for the 18th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course as a resident of one of the United Nations ‘Least Developed Countries‘ or Egypt.

NOTE: you are purchasing a single registration for the Virtual Course. The Course will be livestreamed in HD on the day with HD Screencasts being available until end of January 2026.

PAST COURSES - RECORDINGS

Purchase access to recordings of Past Courses. Access HD Screencasts until end of December 2025.

BBPUC2023-Recordings

£50.00

Purchase access to 16th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course as a Recordings Only Delegate.

NOTE: you are purchasing access to the HD Screencasts being available until end of December 2025. Upon registration you will be emailed access details.

BBPUC2024-Recordings

£50.00

Purchase access to 17th Annual Birmingham Breast Pathology Update Course as a Recordings Only Delegate.

NOTE: you are purchasing access to the HD Screencasts being available until end of December 2025. Upon registration you will be emailed access details.

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If you have any queries, feel free to email us at any time using geoffcross@birminghambreastpathology.org