Exhibitors - Frontiers In Precision Medicine for Inherited Cancers: From Risk Assessment to Targeted Therapies
This activity is brought to you in partnership with City of Hope.
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify how advanced concepts in genetics, genomics, and next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies;
- Recognize advances in the clinical management of patients with inherited cancer syndromes including breast, prostate, gastrointestinal, and hematologic malignancies;
- Discuss integration of novel cancer therapies based on genomic alterations in tumor tissue that may reveal germline mutations such as MLH1 and BRCA mutations into the practice of oncology;
- Describe how to manage cancer patients from high risk families using a globally-informed perspective;
- Discuss emerging models for cancer risk assessment and genetic testing including integration of a polygenic risk score;
- Recognize the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing in healthy populations.
- 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 15.00 Participation
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CONFERENCE CO-DIRECTORS
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor
Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics
Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics
University of Chicago Medicine
Iris Romero, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Associate Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics
University of Chicago Medicine
Associate Director, Cancer Genetics Education Program
City of Hope National Medical Center
Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD
Chief, Clinical Cancer Genetics
Professor of Oncology and Population Sciences
City of Hope National Medical Center
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