Cancer Care CME

Review the treatment options for metastatic bone disease.

Illustrate the change in treatment strategies for skeletal metastases.

In this presentation, a new paradigm of conducting community clinical research will be presented.  Elements of this paradigm will include infrastructure support from an external commercial Integrated Research Organization (IRO) and focus on industry trials that can be deployed across SSM community sites.  In addition, we will review the integration between the IRO supported research infrastructure and the academic programs at SLU.

Provide details on drivers of the current poor performance of community-based research.

Introduce the model of IRO supported community research.

Identify integration between community and academic research programs within SSM.

Goals of care conversations are a fundamental part on patient care and even more in the oncology patient. Understanding what the patient is looking forward to and what is important in their lives helps to develop a treatment plan and strategies for the future.  Oncologists have this conversations all the time and the objective of this talk is to provide additional tools to be used in these conversations.

Recognize which is the best moment to have a goals of care conversation.

Learn strategies to have goals of care conversations more effectively without thinking is loosing hope or giving up.

Determine useful ways to document goals of care conversations. 

I will aim to give an overview of hematopoietic stem cell transplant, both autologous and allogeneic, and introduce CAR-T therapy. I will review the indications for and principles behind each of these cellular therapies and touch on the medical pre-requisites for each of these therapies.

Review the indications for and principles behind autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant.

State the medical pre-requisites for the various types of transplant.

Highlight the role of multi-disciplinary specialists in cellular therapy patient care.

Introduce CAR-T therapy.