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editorial board of several oncology and breast cancer research journals.






Paolo Veronesi is Associate Professor of General Surgery at the University of Milan School of Medicine, and Director of the Breast Surgery Division at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. He was deeply involved in the development of breast-conserving surgery and, more recently, in the development of the sentinel lymph node biopsy technique, intraoperative radiotherapy, and conservative mastectomy. Dr. Veronesi was President of the XXXIII Congress of the Italian Society of Surgical Oncology in June 2010. He has been President of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation for the progress of the science since 2005. He is the author of more than 240 papers and 25 book chapters, mainly in the field of breast diseases.




Maria Cristina Leonardi has worked at the Division of Radiation Therapy at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy since 1997; in 2009 she became Deputy Director of the Division, having previously been Senior Assistant. Her main activities include 3D radiotherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiotherapy and image-guided radiotherapy and she has been involved in numerous clinical studies involving breast and rectal cancer. Dr. Leonardi graduated in Medicine from the University of Milan in 1992 and subsequently completed her specialization in Radiation Oncology in 1996 at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan. She is a Member of the Italian Radiation Oncologists (AIRO) Breast Cancer Group and co-author of the Italian Guidelines on Breast Cancer. Currently, she is the national coordinator of the AIRO Working Group on Intraoperative Radiotherapy.






Oreste D. Gentilini was born in 1968. After 15 years at the European Institute of Oncology is now Head of Breast Surgery and Director of the Breast Unit at the San Raffaele University and Research Hospital, Milano. His interest and research commitments have focused on sentinel lymph node biopsy, breast cancer in young women, breast cancer during pregnancy and the possibility of extending the fields of breast conservation in special clinical scenarios. Dr. Gentilini is Chairman of the SOUND (Sentinel node vs Observation after axillary Ultra-souND) prospective, randomized, multicentre, international trial and author of more than 100 papers.