EUBREAST 04 (R) MELODY – MEthods for LOcalization of Different types of breast lesions

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A prospective non-interventional multicenter cohort study to evaluate different imagingguided methods for localization of malignant breast lesions

The MELODY Team 

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. med. Maggie Banys-Paluchowski

  • Vice-Chair of EUBREAST e.V.
  • Head of Breast Cancer Center
  • Head of Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer
  • University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck

Deputy Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Kühn

  • Chairman of EUBREAST
  • Head of Breast Cancer Center
  • Die Filderklinik Filderstadt, Germany

International Steering Board

Prof. Dr. Jana de Boniface

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Department of Surgery, Breast Centre
  • Capio St. Göran’s Hospital Stockholm, Sweden 

Rajiv Dave, BSc, MBChB, MRCSEd, MD, FRCSEd

  • Consultant Oncoplastic Breast and Endocrine Surgeon
  • Nightingale & Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre
  • Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
  • Honorary Senior Lecturer
  • Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK

Dr. Oreste Gentilini

  • Chair of EUBREAST
  • Head of Department of Breast Surgery
  • Ospedale San Raffaele Milan, Italy

Prof. Bahadır M. Güllüoglu, MD, FACS, FEBS (Hon)

  • President of SENATURK
  • Department of Surgery, Breast Surgery Unit
  • Marmara University School of Medicine and SENATURK Turkish Academy of Senology Istanbul, Turkey

Prof. Dr. med. Markus Hahn

  • President of German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
  • Head of Experimental Senology
  • Department of Women’s Health University Hospital Tübingen Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

James Harvey, MBBS.FRCS Ed. PHd

  • Nightingale & Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre
  • University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust Manchester, United Kingdom

ProfDrGüldeniz Karadeniz Çakmak

  • Professor of Surgery
  • Director of Breast and Endocrine Unit
  • Zonguldak BEUN The School of Medicine Kozlu/Zonguldak, Turkey

Dr. Andreas Karakatsanis, M.D., Ph.D., FEBS-Breast

  • Senior Consultant, Oncoplastic Breast and General Surgeon
  • Clinical Lead, Section for Breast Surgery
  • Department of Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Upsala, Sweden

Dr. Ash Kothari

  • Oncoplastic & Reconstructive Breast Surgeon
  • Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
  • Senior Lecturer, Kings College, London, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. med. Michael Lux, MBA

  • Head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Frauenklinik St. Louise
  • Frauen- und Kinderklinik St. Louise
  • St. Vincenz Krankenhaus GmbH
  • Paderborn, Germany 

Shelley Potter, BSc (Hons), M.B.Ch.B.(Hons), PhD, FHEA, FRCS

  • Chair of the Executive Group of iBRA-NET
  • Ass. Professor of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
  • Bristol Medical School (THS)
  • Bristol Population Health Science Institute, Bristol, United Kingdom

Dr. Isabel Rubio

  • President of EUSOMA
  • President-Elect of European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO)
  • Head of Breast Surgical Oncology
  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain

Prof. Marjolein Smidt

  • Department of Surgical Oncology
  • Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Walter Weber

  • Founder of the Oncoplastic Breast Consortium (OPBC)
  • Chief of Division of Breast Surgery
  • Department of Surgery
  • Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Heads of National Steering Committees

Argentina- Verónica Fabiano,MD

  • Breast Cancer Surgeon
  • Instituto Alexander Fleming, Buenos Aires, Argentina

AustriaDr Florentia Peintinger

  • Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

DenmarkDr. med. ph.d Tove Filtenborg Tvedskov

  • Consultant, Associated professor
  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Dept of Breast Surgery
  • Herlev & Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

DenmarkDr. Lina Pankratjevaite, MD (Member of the Steering Committee)

  • Consultant breast surgeon
  • Department of Breast Surgery
  • Herlev & Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

EgyptKhaled Abdelwahab, MD

  • Assistant professor of Surgical Oncology 
  • Mansoura Oncology Center- Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

FranceDr Séverine Alran

  • Head of Breast & Gynecologic Surgery Service
  • Groupe hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph

GermanyProf. Dr. med. Nina Ditsch

  • Head of Breast Cancer Center
  • University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

GreeceProf. Dr. Michalis Kontos

  • 1st Department of Surgery
  • University of Athens
  • Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece

IndiaProf. S.V.S. Deo

  • President of the Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI)
  • President Elect of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
  • President of the NCR Oncology Forum; Head of Delhi Cancer Registry
  • Head of the Department of Surgical Oncology
  • BRA-IRCH & National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India

IrelandProf. Aoife Lowery, MB BCh BAO, MMedSci, FRCS, PhD

  • Consultant Breast Surgeon & Professor in Surgery
  • University of Galway, Ireland

ItalyDr. Rosa Di Micco

  • San Raffaele University and Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

KoreaDr. Jai Min Ryu, MD, PhD

  • Breast Surgeon
  • Division of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery
  • Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Korea

NorwayDr Ellen Schlichting, MD, PhD

  • Senior Consultant
  • Dept. of Surgical Oncology
  • Oslo University Hospital, Norway

PakistanProf. Mah Muneer Khan

  • Breast Care Service, Department of Surgery
  • Khyber Medical College & Khyber Teaching Hospital
  • Peshawar, Pakistan

PeruLía Pamela Rebaza, M.D.

  • Breast Surgeon
  • Clinica Oncosalud Auna, Lima, Peru

PolandProf. Dr n. med. Dawid Murawa

  • President of the Polish Surgical Society
  • Head of the Department of Surgical Oncology
  • Collegium Medicum
  • University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Góra, Poland

PortugalMaria Antónia Vasconcelos, MD

  • Breast Unit
  • Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

South AfricaDr Sarah Nietz

  • Breast Surgeon, Morningside Medi-Clinic
  • Lecturer Department of Surgery
  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

South AfricaDr Francois Malherbe

  • Head of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit
  • Groote Schuur Hospital
  • Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

SpainDr Antonio J. Esgueva, MD, PhD

  • Breast Surgical Oncology
  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain

Sweden – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jana de Boniface

  • Oncoplastic breast surgeon, Capio St Goran Hospital,
  • Senior Researcher, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andreas Karakatsanis

  • Associate Professor / Reader in Breast Surgery, Uppsala University
  • Senior Consultant, Clinical Lead, Section for Breast Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

SwitzerlandDr. Maria Luisa Gasparri

  • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • University of the Italian Switzerland
  • Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

TurkeyProf. N. Zafer Canturk, MD, FACS, FEBS

  • First Vice-President of SENATURK Senology Academy
  • CEO/General Director of the Kocaeli University Hospital, Kocaeli, Kocaeli University School of Medicine
  • Department of General Surgery, Kocaeli, Turkey

TurkeyProf. Neslihan Cabioglu, MD, PhD, FEBS

  • Istanbul University
  • Istanbul Faculty of Medicine
  • Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey

United KingdomDr Yazan Masannat, MBBS, MRCSI, MRCSEd, DBRM, FEBS, FRCSEd, MD

  • Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
  • Aberdeen Breast Unit
  • Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

United States of AmericaDr Erica Giblin, MD, MBA, FACS

  • Medical Director Breast Care Services
  • Ascension Medical Group
  • St. Vincent Carmel Hospital, Carmel, Indiana

Contact details

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at melody@eubreast.com. Your email will then be forwarded to the correct National Steering Committee Head representative.

Documents for Download

Country-Specific Documents for Download

Germany

Greece

Denmark

Ireland

Italy

Poland  

Peru

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Publications

Newsletters

Conferences

Videos

  • Initation Videoconference
  • German-language Initiation Videoconference
  • Poster presentation at the ASCO 2023: MELODY video abstract

Study Support

The patient enrollment started in Q1 2023.

If you would like to participate in MELODY or to support the study, please contact us at: melody@eubreast.com.

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