Best of San Antonio Breast Cancer
Symposium
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Embassy Suites Hotel
5800 Rockside Woods Blvd.
Independence, Ohio
Description
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is an international meeting of laboratory and clinical investigators, dedicated to the presentation of the latest research findings in breast cancer. Basic and translational studies that improve our understanding of breast cancer, as well as practice-changing clinical trials, are presented and discussed. This review course will summarize the highlights of the 2011 SABCS, with a focus on the clinical implications of the new information presented at this meeting.
Target Audience
Medical oncologists, breast surgeons, radiation oncologists, gynecologists, and other health care providers with an interest in the management of patients with breast cancer should attend this course.
Objectives
As a result of attending the course, the participant will be able to:
- Summarize information relevant to the surgical management of breast cancer.
- Review current information on the hormonal management of breast cancer.
- Discuss novel targets in the therapy of breast cancer and their clinical implications including
the role of conventional chemotherapy and of novel combinations involving conventional
chemotherapy.
- Identify emerging radiation techniques and the status of these techniques in the care of
patients with breast cancer.
- Review current risk prediction methods and prevention strategies.
- Discuss new insights into the biology of breast cancer and the metastatic process.
Faculty Disclosure
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant commercial interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education fully intends to comply with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you need assistance, please notify Cleveland Clinic at 216.444.7924 at least two weeks prior to the activity.
Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
The Ohio Board of Nursing will accept at face value the number of contact hours awarded for an educational activity that has been approved for CE by a nationally accredited system of CE approval. Therefore the 4.5 physician AMA PRA Category I Credits™ will be accepted for nursing credits. Nurses from other states should contact their State Board of Nursing.
