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Gregory Bruce Mann (publishes using the name G. Bruce Mann, sometimes abbreviated as GB Mann) is an Australian surgical oncologist.

He is the Director of Breast Cancer Services at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, the largest specialist women's care hospital in Australia.[1]

A former president of COSA (the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, the top national professional association for cancer care),[2] Dr. Mann served previously as Director of Cancer Services and Infectious Medicine for the Melbourne Health Cancer Service, as Director of the award-winning Melbourne Health Combined Breast Service and is Director of Advanced Surgical Training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The Combined Breast Service won the prestigious Premier's Award for "Excellence for improving cancer care in Victoria" under Mann's direction in 2008.[3]

Mann holds a professorship in Surgery at the University of Melbourne and has published extensively in leading oncology journals, with growing international impact on academic debate and research in his field.[4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the ANZ Breast Cancer Trials Group. He also serves as a Councilor of the International Gastric Cancer Association. His private practice is at Parkville Surgery.[5]

Mann attended medical school at the University of Melbourne and earned a PhD in Cancer Genetics in 1995. His surgical training was at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he specialized in surgical oncology and especially the treatment of breast cancer. In his practice, Professor Mann specializes in breast cancer and breast surgery, melanoma surgery, stomach cancer (gastric cancer) surgery, and the surgical treatment of sarcoma (soft tissue tumors). He is a consultant surgeon at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne,[6] and operates at Melbourne Private Hospital and Frances Perry Private Hospital.[7] He is registered with the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria (Australia).

Mann's opinion on issues relating to cancer is regularly sought by the media.[8][9][10][11]

World Congresses on Controversies in Breast Cancer

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In 2014, Dr. Mann teamed with his colleague medical oncologist Dr. Richard DeBoer, also practicing at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, to organize the first World Congress on Controversies in Breast Cancer (with the acronym CoBRA).[12] Held in Melbourne on 22–24 October, CoBRA was structured as pro-con debates on current questions and controversies in breast cancer care and drew full attendance with international participation. The success of this conference brought funding for a second World Congress in Barcelona (with the altered acronym CoBrCa), organized by Drs. Mann and DeBoer with Dr. Javier Cortes (Spain) and Alastair Thompson (USA), on 8–11 September 2016.[13] The third edition of CoBrCa is planned for Tokyo, Japan, October 26–28, 2017.

References

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  1. ^ See The Women's Breast Service page. Archived September 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ See COSA Committees Archived 22 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology, Vol. 8, Issue Supplement S3: also COSA "About Us"[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ For Dr. Mann's work on coordinated care, see, for example, his invited talk at the Radiation Oncology Symposium 2011, at Beyond Bricks and Mortar - Building Quality Clinical Cancer Services' Archived 13 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ See, for example, commentary on his research in the UK-based Oncology Times Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine and the U.S.-based Journal of Clinical Oncology Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine; also his invited presentations at major international conferences, such as the 2012 1st Asia-Pacific Breast Cancer Summit Archived 2014-07-21 at the Wayback Machine in Singapore. Selected publications are listed on Melbourne University "expert" webpage Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. For his public activities, see also local news reports on the ABC[permanent dead link] (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
  5. ^ See bio at Parkville Surgery Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ See Peter Mac Cancer Surgery Program and Services Archived March 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ Frances Perry House, Specialists[permanent dead link] page.
  8. ^ "MRI before surgery may reduce unnecessary breast cancer treatments". ABC Radio National. 20 June 2022. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Breakthrough in radical breast cancer treatment". Herald Sun. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  10. ^ "International trial tests 'over treating' women with early breast cancer signs". www.9news.com.au. 24 November 2017. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  11. ^ Asher, Nicole (10 July 2020). "Cancer patient numbers fell during lockdown — but not for a good reason. Now, doctors fear it'll happen again". ABC News. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  12. ^ See conference website at World Conference on Controversies in Breast Care Archived 2016-09-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ^ See conference website at Second World Conference on Controversies in Breast Care.
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  • Bruce Mann - Melbourne University 'Find an Expert' page
  • CoBrCa - World Congress on Controversies in Breast Cancer
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