Target Audience

This series of activities is designed for medical oncologists, as well as nurses and pharmacists, who manage and treat patients with breast cancer.

Activity Goal

The goal of these CME/CE activities is to examine current and emerging strategies for diagnosing, treating, and managing patients with breast cancer.

Learning Objective (s)

• Assess new data on molecular diagnostic tests in breast cancer (including genetic tests) that determine patients who may benefit from specific therapies to improve associated treatment decisions.
• Analyze and contrast the MOAs, efficacy, safety, dosing, treatment strategies, clinical considerations, and overall survival rates of breast cancer patients on current and emerging chemotherapies, hormone therapies, targeted therapies, and PARP inhibitors.
• Differentiate among side effects associated with chemotherapeutic agents, hormone therapies (including bone health), targeted therapies, and PARP inhibitors, and risk stratification and side effect management strategies to improve adherence/outcomes.
• Assess the importance and challenges in advocating lifestyle changes, treatment adherence, the consequences of non-adherence, and methods for improving adherence.
• Formulate strategies for a multidisciplinary approach to the management of breast cancer.

CME Information: Physicians

Statement of Accreditation

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CE Information: Nurses

Specific credit information can be found on each activity's web page.

CE Information: Pharmacists

Projects In Knowledge^® is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

CME/CE Instructions

To obtain CME/CE credit:

1. Read or listen to each activity carefully.
2. Complete/submit each posttest and evaluation.
3. Instantly access and print out your certificate.

There is no fee for this activity.

The "Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy" of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship(s) with a pharmaceutical, product, or device company. Any presenter whose disclosed relationships prove to create a conflict of interest with regard to their contribution to the activity will not be permitted to present. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University also requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience when discussing any unlabeled or investigational use of any commercial product or device not yet approved for use in the United States.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, CME staff, has no conflicts of interest with commercial interests related directly or indirectly to this educational activity.