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Release Date: December 31, 2009|
Expiration Date: September 30, 2010
28 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™|
Dec 31, 2009 - Sep 30, 2010, Atlanta, GA
At the conclusion of this school, you should be able to:
- Discuss breast carcinogenesis and the impact of germline mutations on patient management
- Explain the clinical utility and limitations of sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Integrate current staging guidelines into clinical decision making regarding local and systemic therapies
- Discuss advances in breast cancer imaging and early detection, including mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and PET scanning
- Integrate prognostic and predictive factors for breast cancer into patient management decisions and assess the optimal means of HER2 and hormone receptor expression analysis
- Assess optimal radiation therapy strategies for treatment of patients with DCIS, early-stage, and locally advanced breast cancer
- Critically analyze the data guiding the choice of adjuvant chemotherapies, endocrine therapies, or targeted agents for patients with low- and high-risk breast cancer and for elderly patients
- Evaluate the evidence guiding treatment recommendations for the management of patients with hormone-dependent and hormone-independent metastatic breast cancer
- Evaluate organ-specific therapeutic interventions for patients with metastatic disease to the CNS and skeleton
- Integrate palliative care strategies into treatment algorithms for metastatic disease
- List novel chemotherapies and targeted agents currently under evaluation for the treatment of advanced and early-stage breast cancer
- Describe current and emerging strategies for ameliorating or eliminating therapy-associated adverse events
- Assess the evidence supporting an emphasis on quality of life and rehabilitation during and after breast cancer treatment
- Refer appropriate patients to promising clinical trials
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