LibGuides: 6th Annual Breast Cancer Symposium: Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

6th Annual Breast Cancer Symposium
Thursday, October 6, 2016 | 11:30AM-5:00PM (followed by dinner)
The Grandview, 176 Rinaldi Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Learning Objectives

Following the completion of this conference, attendees should be able to:

1. Discuss immunotherapy’s potential to improve clinical outcomes for
patients with breast cancer.

2. Distinguish key advantages of immunotherapy over conventional
chemotherapeutic and targeted treatments.

3. Determine appropriateness of genetic testing for breast cancer risk

4. Integrate into professional practice the most recent clinical advances and
key updates of the NCCN Guidelines related to breast cancer

5. Provide patients and caregivers information about their prognosis,
treatment options, benefits and harms of treatment, supportive/palliative
care measures

6. Evaluate patients for clinical trial participation when appropriate

7. Describe ongoing and planned clinical trials in the adjuvant, neoadjuvant
and metastatic settings and counsel appropriately selected patients about
the availability of ongoing clinical trials

8. Consider the integration of reconstruction for patients undergoing mastectomy

9. Distinguish the most up-to-date information about staging for breast cancer

10. Review current concepts in Breast Reconstruction

11. Consider new trends and technologies in breast reconstruction

12, Discuss updates to the NCCN guidelines for breast cancer

13. Explain how the new screening updates will impact management of breast
cancer care

14. Review past and current clinical trials for IORT