Series Description: 

The interdisciplinary healthcare team will discuss NCCN and national standards while reviewing individual breast oncology cases to create appropriate individualized Breast Cancer treatment care plans with collaboration of the entire care team. Case study review allows the interdisciplinary team to discuss in real time clinical cases to develop individualized care plans for hard to solve cases. In addition to the discussion of current data and recommendations for clinical trial participation.

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives- After Attending this Activity, Learners Should be Able to:

1. Prioritize interprofessional collaboration during review of difficult and unique patient cases in order gain consensus and achieve an informed decision on the ideal treatment plan recommendations for each patient presented at the Breast Tumor Board utilizing evidence-based guidelines (i.e., NCCN).

2. Identify appropriate candidates for clinical trial participation based on critical analysis of emerging evidence and discussion of current patient-level data.

3. Apply best practice recommendations in the practice of clinical staging documentation.

4. Discuss what matters most to patients and families in order to engage in and support shared decision-making discussions with the patient and family about palliative care preferences, genetic testing, or smoking cessation as applicable.

5. Demonstrate cultural humility in the ability to deliver culturally appropriate care, free of implicit biases, for families of diverse cultural backgrounds and belief systems. This includes learning from the patients and families directly about how they perceive health and illness as well as respond to various diseases, symptoms, and treatments.

Providing Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases (AB 1195 & 241):

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

• Ma, C, Congley, S., Chyou, D., Tsang, E., Sussman, D. & Goldberg, D. (2022). Factors associated with geographic disparities in gastrointestinal cancer mortality in the United States. Gastroenterology; 163(2): 437-448. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2022.04.019
• Evaluation of Racial Disparities in Quality of Care for Patients With Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Treated With Surgery| Bakkila BF, Kerekes D, Nunez-Smith M, et al. Evaluation of Racial Disparities in Quality of Care for Patients With Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Treated With Surgery. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(4):e225664. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.5664| https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2790616

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest:

Xin Li, faculty for this presentation, receives consultant fees from Aptitude Health. This relevant ineligible relationships was mitigated via a Speaker Agreement form attesting to accreditation requirements.

No one else involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.   

– Provider Designee/Verification:  Kerri Maya, PhD(c), MSL, RN, NPD-BC