Webinars and events

Healthcare professional webinars and external training and events

Upcoming webinars

Facilitated by our clinical nurse specialists, our healthcare professional webinars are designed to support your practice and development.

Sessions are free to join and run for an hour. They include expert speakers covering a range of topics on breast cancer, treatments, side effect management and new developments.

Participation certificates for your NMC revalidation are available following each webinar.

Please note, our webinars are only open to healthcare professionals in UK practice. This is because the information we share, produce and collaborate on is all based on UK clinical practice and guidelines.

Breast Cancer Now’s healthcare professionals webinar 2025/2026 are jointly sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Limited, Roche Products Ltd and Pfizer Limited. Novartis, Roche and Pfizer have not had any control or involvement in the webinars.

CBT approaches for anxiety and worry

13 November 2025, 7pm

Kathy Burn, a CBT Therapist will introduce useful tools for managing worry and anxiety, with long experience using these tools both in CBT and in her work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in palliative care. These will be able to be used by all healthcare professionals in order to help support patients affected by breast cancer.

Genetics and breast cancer basics

27 November 2025, 7pm

Ramsey Cutress will discuss the basics and an overview of genetics in breast cancer. The differences between inherited (germline) and tumour (somatic) genetics will be covered along with impact of family history, and application of hereditary testing and tumour genomic profiling.

Watch previous webinars

You need to be a member of our healthcare professionals hub to watch the recordings of our previous webinars. Any HCP can sign up to be a member, just fill in our form online.

Recordings of past webinars and the resources will be uploaded to the healthcare professionals hub members area around a week after the live webinar is held. You can also download a certificate of attendance and a resource sheet for each webinar in our healthcare professionals hub too.

External training and events

The Christie Education Centre Metastatic Breast Cancer Study Day

January 13 2026, Manchester or virtual

This study day will focus on important new approaches to the management of patients with secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer. Topics will include all aspects of the patient pathway including recent advances in systemic and local therapies for secondary breast cancer and the prevention and management of treatment toxicities.

UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium (UKIBCS)

October 19-20 January 2026, ICC Birmingham

The UKIBCS was established to provide all those with an active interest in breast cancer research and treatment an opportunity to consider and discuss how the latest advances may impact upon their and others' areas of expertise.

Early bird rates are available until 15 December 2025.