OVERVIEW

Community Practice Connections™: 19th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress® is organized by Physicians' Education Resource, LLC (PER). This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Release Date: October 31, 2018
Expiration Date: October 31, 2019

Target Audience:
This educational activity is directed toward medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists interested in the treatment of patients with lung cancer. Fellows, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, researchers, and other health care professionals interested in the treatment of lung cancer are also invited to attend.

Activity Overview:
Community Practice Connections™: 19th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress® consists of a series of interactive clinical vignettes, short video interviews of leading experts in lung cancer, and short summaries of clinical data related to these issues. Rapid updates from recent international conferences have also been included. The video interviews address decision points in the clinical vignettes, as well as questions commonly faced in the community oncology practice setting.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, you should be better prepared to:
• Apply testing strategies to identify biomarkers that inform optimized decision making in the care of patients with lung cancer
• Determine emerging evidence concerning the management of patients with nonmetastatic lung cancer
• Delineate the rationale for optimized and personalized sequencing strategies utilizing clinical trial evidence, performance status, and tumor characteristics
• Detail how recent clinical trial results on chemotherapeutic, targeted, and immunotherapeutic strategies can be interpreted in the context of evolving paradigms in the field of lung cancer management
• Incorporate recent data sets on single-agent and combination immunotherapeutic approaches to care for patients with lung cancer