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 and Roche Products Ltd. Novartis and Roche have not had any control or involvement in the webinars.
Introduction to palliative care
This webinar is a part of our secondary breast cancer series.
17 July 2025, 7pm
In this webinar, Dr Syed Qamar Abbas will discuss the difference between specialist and generalist palliative care, working in partnership and transition to palliative care.
Developing cultural curiosity and awareness to better support people from ethnic communities
This webinar is part of ethnic minority cancer awareness month (EMCAM).
23 July 2025, 7pm
The webinar will highlight challenges ethnic communities face when delivered with a breast cancer diagnosis and the challenges healthcare professionals face when delivering and treating their breast cancer diagnosis.
Bringing together three different perspectives on the topic, it will explore the concepts of cultural curiosity, otherness and the need for better support.
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
Symposium Mammographicum
9-11 July 2025, Bournemouth
The Symposium Mammographicum 2025 is the leading conference on breast imaging technology. The conference programme aims to bring together healthcare professionals from multiple disciplines to examine topics at the forefront of breast imaging, with a spotlight on inequalities and diversity in breast imaging services this year.
Visit the Breast Cancer Now stand at the conference to learn more about our screening campaign and educational and support services for healthcare professionals.
9th World Congress on Controversies in Breast Cancer – Latin America
September 12-13, 2025, Lima
This year the 9th World Congress on Controversies in Breast Cancer (CoBrCa) will take place at the JW Marriott Hotel in Lima, Peru from September 12-13, 2025, in partnership with leading Peruvian medical societies.
This collaboration marks a significant milestone in bringing together international expertise and local knowledge to address the most pressing challenges in breast cancer. This congress promises to foster exchange of knowledge, provide valuable networking opportunities, and enhance the global perspective on the latest advances in breast cancer treatment and research.
The 18th Annual Royal Marsden Breast Cancer Meeting: Hot Topics in Breast Cancer
3 October 2025, London
This year the Royal Marsden Hot Topics meeting will have a special focus on the multi-disciplinary approach to patient aftercare and symptom management. It will cover the latest oncology updates, integration of molecular testing into daily clinical practice and focus on the debate around loco-regional management of breast cancer, especially following neoadjuvant systemic therapy.
The meeting is open to all professionals who are involved in looking after women with breast cancer, including clinicians and senior nurses.
Register here
The Christie Education Centre Hot Topics in Early Breast Cancer Study Day
14 October 2025, Manchester or virtual
This study day will focus on important new approaches to the management of patients with early breast cancer. Topics will include all aspects of the patient pathway including surgery, endocrine, immune and targeted therapies, radiotherapy and the prevention and management of treatment toxicities.
Any questions?
Please email the healthcare professional engagement team if you have any questions or queries.