Plenary Session - Promising Practices to Reduce the Impact of Drug Shortages on Cancer Care

Cancer drug shortages have had a significant impact on clinical practice with much confusion around how to appropriately manage care of patients with cancer in the midst of a drug shortage. You can benefit by learning what you can do both in your practice and in your advocacy to advance short-term and long-term solutions.

Target Audience

This educational program is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians/oncologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, PAs, pharmacists, social workers, and other health care professionals who manage patients with cancer.

Learning Objectives

Following this program, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the drivers of cancer drug shortages and proposed solutions.
  • Identify actions that can be implemented at the individual practice and health system levels to reduce the impact on cancer care.
  • Recognize solutions proposed at governmental and policy levels to address drug shortages.
Additional information
Supporters: 

Supported by educational grants from AstraZeneca; Coherus BioSciences; Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC; Eisai; Exact Sciences; Genentech, a member of the Roche Group; GRAIL, LLC; GSK; Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Lilly; Menarini-Stemline; Novartis; Novocure; Olympus Corporation of the Americas; Sanofi; Sirtex; and Taiho Oncology, Inc. Supported by independent educational grants from Daiichi Sankyo; Incyte Corporation; and Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. Supported by independent medical education grants from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Supported by a grant from Pfizer Inc. Supported by a medical education grant from Karyopharm Therapeutics. This project has been made possible in part by a grant from Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company/Global Medical Education Grant Program.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 1.25 ACPE contact hours
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.25 ANCC contact hours
  • 1.25 ASWB continuing education credit
  • 1.25 Participation
Course opens: 
06/15/2024
Course expires: 
03/01/2025
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
Recorded Presentations from the NCCN 2024 Annual Conference

Moderator

Clifford Goodman, PhD
Consultant, Health Care Technology and Policy

Panelists

Christina Barrington, PharmD
Priority Health

Rondeep Brar, MD
Stanford Cancer Institute

Laura Bray, MBA
Founder and Chief Change Maker, Angels for Change

Stephen Colvill, MBA
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

Erin R. Fox, PharmD, MHA, BCPS
University of Utah Health Care

Lalan S. Wilfong, MD
The US Oncology Network

 

NCCN Continuing 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 have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Christina Barrington, PharmD
Laura Bray, MBA
Erin R. Fox, PharmD, MHA, BCPS

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

Rondeep Brar, MD 
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Honoraria
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Honoraria 
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation: Honoraria

Stephen Colvill, MBA 
Medicines360: Consulting Fee
Pfizer Inc.: Equity Interest/Stock Options 

Clifford Goodman, PhD 
Bayer HealthCare: Consulting Fee
Genentech, Inc.: Honoraria
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP: Consulting Fee
Medtronic, Inc.: Consulting Fee
Merck & Co., Inc.: Consulting Fee
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation: Consulting Fee 

Lalan S. Wilfong, MD 
AbbVie, Inc.: Consulting Fee
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP: Consulting Fee
Genzyme Corporation: Consulting Fee

NCCN Staff Disclosures

The planner 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.

Crystal Denlinger, MD, FACP 
2seventy bio: Grant/Research Support
AbbVie, Inc.: Grant/Research Support
Bluebird bio: Grant/Research Support
Bristol Myers Squibb: Grant/Research Support
Eli Lilly and Company: Grant/Research Support
Genentech, Inc: Grant/Research Support
GSK: Grant/Research Support
Pfizer Inc: Grant/Research Support
sanofi-aventis U.S.: Grant/Research Support

None of the other 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 enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 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 1.25 contact hours.

Pharmacists
NCCN designates this knowledge-based continuing education activity for 1.25 contact hours (0.125 CEUs) of continuing education credit. UAN: JA4008196-0000-24-049-H01-P

PAs
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 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credit. Approval is valid until March 1, 2025. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, NCCN is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. NCCN maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credit.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 1.25 ACPE contact hours
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.25 ANCC contact hours
  • 1.25 ASWB continuing education credit
  • 1.25 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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    • Internet Explorer is no longer supported
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