Breast Cancer: An Integrative Approach (2021-2023)
English
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hosted by Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
hosted by Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
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Medicine
Oncology
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$210.06
Breast Cancer: An Integrative Approach (2021-2023) is organized by Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.,,Current CME Approval Period: 06/28/2021 to 06/27/2023,,Overview:,One out of every eight women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime, a number that has been increasing steadily over the past decade. The prevalence of breast cancer in men is also on the rise. Given the number of breast cancer diagnoses, practitioners must be equipped with up-to-date, comprehensive information about prevention, treatment, and survivorship.,Breast cancer treatment is complex and demanding. It is important that busy providers have the tools they can incorporate into conventional cancer treatment -- integrative interventions that new research shows can impact not only the quality of life but also cancer-specific outcomes. These powerful integrative adjuvants include stress management, exercise, sleep, and diet.,Practitioners trained in an integrative medicine model have the potential to improve outcomes, encourage optimism and resilience, and teach innovative, effective approaches to self-care to their patients. Information in this course will help practitioners better serve patients with breast cancer in all stages of treatment.,Learning Objectives,Breast Cancer Risk Reduction,Participants will be able to:,• List key risk factors for breast cancer and identify modifiable risk factors.,• Define strategies to help patients address modifiable risk factors.,• Discuss counseling women on the role of nutrition in breast cancer risk reduction.,• Recognize the roles of insulin resistance and environmental toxins in breast cancer risk.,• Recognize those women at high risk for breast cancer and appropriately refer those patients for genetic screening, intensive surveillance, and risk reduction.,• Apply evidence-based integrative approaches to breast cancer risk reduction using case-based learning.,Breast Cancer Treatment,Participants will be able to:,• Discuss surgical options for breast cancer treatment and reconstructive surgery.,• Assess methods used to optimize surgical outcomes, improve patient experience, and reduce the risk of complications.,• Describe classes of drug therapies and radiation therapy for breast cancer treatment, their associated adverse effects, and approaches to prevent or minimize these effects.,• Recognize the Traditional Chinese Medicine interpretation of the causes and treatment approaches to breast cancer, especially the use of acupuncture for addressing some of the adverse effects of conventional treatment.,• Evaluate commonly used mind-body medicine approaches used to prepare and support women during breast cancer treatment.,• Discuss the medical evidence for exercise and dietary maneuvers shown to improve the efficacy and mitigate adverse side effects of breast cancer chemotherapy.,• Apply evidence-based integrative medicine strategies to breast cancer using case-based learning that addresses a variety of diagnostic and treatment scenarios.,Breast Cancer Survivorship,Participants will be able to:,• Discuss guidelines for monitoring breast cancer patients post-treatment.,• Discuss the evidence that several dietary maneuvers differentially affect recurrence risk for various subtypes of breast cancer.,• Demonstrate approaches to prevent or reduce symptoms of physical weakness, functional impairment, lymphedema, and nerve damage caused by surgery and radiation therapy for breast cancer.,• Identify the impact of long-term breast cancer endocrine therapy on general health, and discuss evidence-based integrative approaches to manage hot flashes, osteoporosis, and sexual function.,• Assess evidence-based integrative medicine approaches to mental health after breast cancer treatment, including depression, anxiety, insomnia, and fatigue.,• Apply evidence-based integrative medicine strategies in a case-based learning format to address the complex needs of breast cancer survivors.,,Curriculum,Course Modules:,Risk Reduction,• Breast Cancer Risk Reduction,• Breast Cancer & Insulin Resistance,• Breast Cancer & the Environment,• High-Risk Patients,Treatment,• Treatment Options,• Reducing Adverse Effects of Drug Therapy,• Reducing Adverse Effects of Radiation Therapy,Survivorship,• Monitoring and Decreasing Recurrence Risk,• Physical Rehabilitation in Breast Cancer Survivors,• Endocrine Considerations,• Mental Health and Breast Cancer