Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.  

Target Audience

Physicians, Advance Practice Professionals, Nurses, Ancillary Staff, Medical Students (rotating), Non-Medical Students (rotating), and Health Care Administrators.

Purpose

New cancer treatment are more successful so patients with advanced cancer now commonly survive years. These patients return to their primary care doctors needing care sometimes with new disorders brought on by cancer treatment but with amazingly good prognosis. What should every provider know about this new generation of cancer treatments?

Learning Objectives

• Use a case-based approach to discussion of major new drug options for patients with advanced cancer including toxicity and cost.
• Distinguish the following types of cancer treatment currently in regular use: hormonal therapy, cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, checkpoint inhibitor therapy, tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy and antibody-drug conjugates.
• Discuss ways in which different therapeutic modalities are being combined to improve long-term outcomes for our patients.
• Identify the side-effects you need to know in providing primary care to cancer patients on novel therapies.

Speaker(s)

Joseph Merchant, MD
Oncology, McFarland Clinic

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

• Dr. Merchant indicated he has no relationships with a commercial entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients.

CME Committee

• No member of the Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee who planned this activity has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

This program is supported by gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, First American Bank, and Green Hills Health Care Center. The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee and not the sponsors of this program.