The 7th Symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: involving the caregivers (Held: 1 March 2024).

The 7th Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women, hosted by the University of Nottingham in association with the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), was held in the Jubilee Conference Centre in Nottingham on 1 March 2024. With the theme of 'involving the caregivers', topics included: barriers to clinical trial participation among older women, the use of geriatric assessment tools to tailor treatments to individual patient's level of frailty and interventions such as medication review and de-prescription to reduce toxicity and increase compliance with treatment.The symposium began with an upbeat introduction from the symposium chair, Kwok-Leung Cheung (Professor of Breast Surgery and Medical Education, University of Nottingham, Consultant Breast Surgeon, Royal Derby Hospital; UK National Representative, SIOG).

Culture of Marsupial Oocytes and Conceptuses.

Marsupial oocytes and conceptuses provide special challenges to scientists wanting to develop reliable in vitro techniques. Yet these techniques are essential to the study of development. Such techniques also provide tools to help prevent further decline in marsupial biodiversity using assisted reproductive technology.

Segmentation of Exercise Repetitions Enabling Real-Time Patient Analysis and Feedback Using a Single Exemplar.

We present a segmentation algorithm capable of segmenting exercise repetitions in real time. This approach uses subsequence dynamic time warping and requires only a single exemplar repetition of an exercise to correctly segment repetitions from other subjects, including those with limited mobility. This approach is invariant to low range of motion, instability in movements, and sensor noise while remaining selective to different exercises.