Deep Dive on Palliative Care
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Prognostication is one of the most difficult tasks that radiation oncologists face. Traditionally, patients with metastatic cancer have had poor life expectancies on the order of weeks to months.
Category
- Palliative Care
- Other
Format
- Online SA-CME
Credits
- 2.25 SA-CME
Safety and Tolerability of Metastasis Directed Radiotherapy in the Era of Evolving Systemic, Immune and Targeted Therapies
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This Advances in Radiation Oncology Journal activity provides practitioners with the knowledge needed to appropriately treat patients receiving newer targeted therapies with hypofractionated and/or stereotactic radiation.
Category
- Palliative Care
- Patient Safety
Format
- Journal SA-CME
Credits
- 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
- 1.00 SA-CME
Challenging Cases in Palliative Care
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With this activity, ASTRO continues its series of challenging case panel sessions related to palliative radiotherapy for patients with advanced cancer.
Category
- Palliative Care
- Other
Format
- CME only
Credits
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
Palliative Re-Irradiation
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Palliative radiotherapy (RT) is a foundation of the discipline and practically represents a significant portion of most practices. The standard protocols for palliative RT (8Gy x 1, 4Gy x 5, etc.) were pioneered almost 50 years ago, when systemic therapies were far less useful.
Category
- Central Nervous System
- Palliative Care
- Other
Format
- CME only
Credits
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Certificate of Attendance