Applying Guideline Updates and Real-World Experience in CLL: Experts Review State-of-the-Art Evidence and Address Clinical Challenges

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The goal of this activity is to improve the knowledge, confidence, and performance of learners to integrate recent findings into the treatment of patients with CLL/SLL.

Provided by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network in collaboration with Clinical Care Options, LLC

Target Audience

This program is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with CLL/SLL.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Design treatment plans for treatment-naive and relapsed/refractory CLL/SLL, including consideration of the agent’s toxicity profile, biomarkers, comorbidities, and patient preference
  • Appraise intraclass differences among agents with the similar therapeutic target in CLL/SLL, regarding selectivity, target binding, efficacy, and adverse event profiles
  • Develop strategies to address unique clinical challenges and leverage an understanding of the current data and NCCN Guideline to optimize outcomes for patients with CLL/SLL
  • Evaluate the evolving role of measurable residual disease, allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant, and CAR T-cell therapy
Additional information
Supporters: 

Supported by educational grants from

  • AstraZeneca
  • BeiGene, Ltd.
  • Genentech, a member of the Roche Group
  • Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.50 ANCC contact hours
  • 2.50 Participation
Course opens: 
12/10/2021
Course expires: 
02/06/2022
Cost:
$0.00

Asher Chanan-Khan, MBBS, MD
Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida

Brian Hill, MD, PhD
Director, Lymphoid Malignancies Program
Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Shuo Ma, MD, PhD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

 

NCCN Medical Education Disclosure Policy
It is the policy of NCCN that all planners, faculty, moderators, authors, reviewers and anyone involved in the planning and delivery of NCCN continuing education activities are expected to disclose ALL financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. The ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence require that individuals who refuse to provide this information will be disqualified from involvement in the planning and implementation of accredited continuing education presented by NCCN. NCCN identifies, mitigates and discloses to learners all relevant financial relationships.

In addition, all content has been reviewed to ensure education promotes safe, effective patient care and does not promote the products or services of an ineligible company. Content, including any presentation of therapeutic options, is fair, balanced, evidence-based, scientifically accurate, and free of commercial bias and marketing. 

Definitions  

Ineligible Company: An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Relevant Financial Relationships: Financial relationships of any dollar amount occurring within the past 24 months are defined as relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of an ineligible company. There is no minimum financial threshold. We ask for disclosure of ALL financial relationships with ineligible companies, regardless of the amount and regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education.

Faculty Disclaimers  

All faculty for this continuing education activity are competent in the subject matter and qualified by experience, training, and/or preparation for the tasks and methods of delivery.

Faculty presentations may include discussion of off-label use. Faculty will disclose that the use in question is not currently approved by the FDA per the product labeling or marketing.

Faculty Disclosures

The faculty listed below has the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Asher Chanan-Khan, MD
Ascentage Pharma: Grant/Research Support 
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP: Grant/Research Support 
BeiGene: Grant/Research Support 
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP: Grant/Research Support 

Brian Hill, MD, PhD
AbbVie, Inc./Pharmacyclics: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
BeiGene: Consulting Fee
Genentech, Inc.: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support  

Shuo Ma, MD, PhD
AbbVie, Inc.: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
BeiGene: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
Juno Therapeutics, Inc.: Grant/Research Support 
Loxo Oncology, Inc.: Grant/Research Support 
Pharmacyclics: Consulting Fee; Grant/Research Support 
TG Therapeutics, Inc.: Grant/Research Support 

NCCN and CCO Staff Disclosures

None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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In support of improving patient care, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians
NCCN designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
NCCN designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 contact hours.

Pharmacists
NCCN designates this application-based continuing education activity for 2.5 contact hours (0.25 CEUs) of continuing education credit. UAN: JA4008196-0000-21-100-L01-P

Physician Assistants
NCCN has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 2.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Available Credit

  • 2.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.50 ANCC contact hours
  • 2.50 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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