Chapter 86- Breast Cancer

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IMPORTANT NOTE – PLEASE READ FIRST: This continuing education assessment requires that you first purchase the text book: Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice. Please go to our home page: http://www.rxugace.com/ and click on “Books” for more information Prior To Registering for this assessment.

Upon completion of the corresponding textbook chapter in Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice and this on-line assessment, the reader should be able to:

1. List factors associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in the United States.
2. Assess patients for signs and symptoms related to breast cancer in early and late stages of the disease.
3. List all modalities that are appropriate screening tools for breast cancer and determine how they should best be used in the public domain.
4. Discuss available options for breast cancer prevention.
5. Critique available prognostic variables for clinical utility.
6. Determine which patient populations may benefit from adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer.
7. Determine the treatment goals for early-stage, locally advanced, and metastatic breast cancer.
8. Determine appropriate indications for endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, and biologic therapy for patients with metastatic breast cancer.
9. Evaluate available chemotherapy options for patients with metastatic breast cancer based on pertinent patient and disease-state characteristics.
10. Discuss the role of trastuzumab in the management of early- and advanced-stage breast cancer.

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