A prospective non-interventional multicenter cohort study to evaluate different imaging– guided 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
Prof. Dr. Güldeniz 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
Austria – Dr Florentia Peintinger
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Denmark – Dr. 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
Denmark – Dr. Lina Pankratjevaite, MD (Member of the Steering Committee)
- Consultant breast surgeon
- Department of Breast Surgery
- Herlev & Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Egypt – Khaled Abdelwahab, MD
- Assistant professor of Surgical Oncology
- Mansoura Oncology Center- Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
France – Dr Séverine Alran
- Head of Breast & Gynecologic Surgery Service
- Groupe hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph
Germany – Prof. Dr. med. Nina Ditsch
- Head of Breast Cancer Center
- University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Greece – Prof. Dr. Michalis Kontos
- 1st Department of Surgery
- University of Athens
- Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece
India – Prof. 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
Ireland – Prof. Aoife Lowery, MB BCh BAO, MMedSci, FRCS, PhD
- Consultant Breast Surgeon & Professor in Surgery
- University of Galway, Ireland
Italy – Dr. Rosa Di Micco
- San Raffaele University and Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Korea – Dr. Jai Min Ryu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Korea
Peru – Lía Pamela Rebaza, M.D.
- Breast Surgeon
- Clinica Oncosalud Auna, Lima, Peru
Poland – Prof. 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
Portugal – Maria Antónia Vasconcelos, MD
- Breast Unit
- Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
South Africa – Dr Sarah Nietz
- Breast Surgeon, Morningside Medi-Clinic
- Lecturer Department of Surgery
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa – Dr Francois Malherbe
- Head of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit
- Groote Schuur Hospital
- Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Spain – Dr 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
Switzerland – Dr. Maria Luisa Gasparri
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- University of the Italian Switzerland
- Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Turkey – Prof. 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
Turkey – Prof. Neslihan Cabioglu, MD, PhD, FEBS
- Istanbul University
- Istanbul Faculty of Medicine
- Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey
United Kingdom Dr Yazan Masannat, MBBS, MRCSI, MRCSEd, DBRM, FEBS, FRCSEd, MD
- Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
- Aberdeen Breast Unit
- Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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
Current documents in English:
Country-Specific Documents for Download
Germany
Greece
Denmark
Ireland
Italy
Poland
Peru
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Publications
- Review on localization of non-palpable breast cancer and MELODY study in “Cancers” 2023
- Review on localization techniques and presentation of MELODY study in “Frauenarzt” 2023 [German]
Newsletters
- Melody Newsletter June 2024
- Melody Newsletter Feb 2024
- Melody Newsletter Feb 2024 (German)
- Melody Newsletter Sept 2023
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.