Online CME: Hematology/Oncology
Last Updated February 6, 2010.

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The sites described on this page are primarily for hematologists and oncologists and other physicians concerned with hematology and cancer. You may find additional online CME sites and courses concerned with hematology and cancer at the main online CME site.

AML Tour (Cyberounds Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Elderly)
Last visited...3/2009.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive Game.
Target Audience....HEMA, ONCO.
Educational material last updated...2007.
Financial support...genzyme oncology.

The program is in the form of a bicycle tour game. Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to discuss the incidence, prevalence and survivor rates for adult AML (acute myeloid leukemia); discuss the advantages and disadvantages of available therapies for adult AML; discuss the results of clinical trials in adult AML; describe the role of PCR and FISH in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up; and describe the mechanisms of action of potential new treatments.

Baylor Oncology
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...2 courses; 2 hours.
Awarded by....Baylor.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lecture.
Target Audiences....ONCO.
Educ. material last updated....2009.

Barriers to Sexual Health after Gynecologic Cancers: What Should be Done?; and Gynecologic and Colorectal Cancer: Risks and Benefits of Contraceptive Methods.

CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Last visited...5/2006.
Credit hours...0.5 to 1.0 per article. About 10 hours of credit. Five issues are available.
Awarded by....American Cancer Society.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type....Text-Only.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated...Bimonthly.
Financial Support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

Each issue contains several articles offering 0.5 or 1.0 hours of credit. Some recent articles are: Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care; Breast Cancer Staging; ACS Guidelines for Early Cancer Detection; Information Technology and Cancer Prevention; Concepts in the Prevention of Adenocarcinoma of the Distal Esophagus and Proximal Stomach; Staging of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma; and Multimodality Approaches for Pancreatic Cancer.  In order to take the quizzes, you must first obtain a username, password and customer number and then register with your personal information.

Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
Last visited..1/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...2 credits.
Awarded by....University of South Florida College of Medicine.
Cost...........$15.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated....10/09.
Financial support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...Oct 1, 2010.

This site contains full-text online versions of articles from a peer-reviewed cancer journal. Each issue focuses on one type of cancer and contains four or more major articles. A new issue comes out every two months. Currently, only one of these issues offers 2 credits of CME: Enhancing Survival Outcomes in the Management of Patients With Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes.  Each module contains a set of 20 post-test questions; you need to score at least 75% to earn credit.

CancerNetwork.com
Last visited...2/2009.
Credit hours...27 activities offering 70 hours.
Awarded by....The Beam Institute.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Text-Only, slide-video lectures.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated....12/08.
Financial support...Many pharmaceutical companies.

Click on CME Courses/Meetings, and register or log on to access the instruction. There appear to be 5 kinds of activities:
13 issues of the Journal, Oncology. Each issue offers up to 3.0 hours of CME credit;
11 long articles each offering 2.0 hours of credit. An Interactive Video Webcast, Perspectives in Colorectal Cancer 2008 (1.0 hour);
2 sets of slide-video lectures from 2007: Advances in Oncology (6 hours) and Advances in Oncology Care (2 hours).

Cleveland Clinic Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes: Optimizing Outcomes Worldwide
Last visited...3/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...6 activities offering 0.5 hour each (total of 3.0 hours).
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruct. Type....Slide-Video Lecture or podcast.
Target Audiences....HEMA.
Educ. material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...Celgene Corporation.

This series was recorded during a live satellite symposium at the ASH Annual Meeting in December 2008. The goal of this series is to review the pathobiology of bone marrow disorders, describe the variations in disease patterns across global regions, and evaluate the rationale for therapies and their evidence based, clinically relevant application.

Cleveland Clinic Kidney Cancer Highlights
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...4 lectures, each awarding 0.75 or 1.0 hours (total of 3.5 hours).
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Video Lecture.
Target Audiences...ONCO, UROL.
Educ. material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...None Stated. 

Lecture titles: Current Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy; Initial Systemic Therapy Options; Management of Small Renal Masses: The Role of Percutaneous Biopsy; and Management of Small Renal Masses: What is the Best Management Option in this Case?

Cleveland Clinic: Reaching New Heights: Preventing Venous Thromboembolism  Throughout the Continuum of Care
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours...About 3 hours.
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Video Lecture, Podcast.
Target Audiences...ONCO, ORTHO, HEMA.
Educ. material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...sanofi aventis.

This activity focuses on clinical practices for Venous Thromboembolism ( VTE) prophylaxis in the medical, cancer and orthopedic patient. For each type of patient you will find a didactic presentation, a case presentation and a panel discussion.

Clinical Care Options Oncology
Last visited...11/2009.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...about 40 activities offering about 20 hours).
Awarded by....Various Sponsors
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-with-Slides or Case-Based-Interactive).
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educ. material last updated...2009.
Financial support...Various pharmaceutical companies.
Credit Expires...One year after posting.

About 40 text-based or case-based-interactive activities concerned with aspects of cancer. All of these categories offer CME credit: Conference Coverage, Journal Options, Management Series, Treatment Updates, Annual Updates and Interactive Cases. Not all activities offer CME (look for the term, "CME-certified").

CML Challenge (Cyberounds-Chronic Myelegenous Leukemia)
Last visited...3/2008
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by...Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruction Type....Interactive game ("golf").
Target Audiences....HEMA, ONCO.
Educational material last updated...2006.
Financial Support...Bristol Myers Squibb.

The Cyberounds® CML Links is an interactive golf program on new pharmacologic treatment and approaches to patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Go to the Cyberrounds main page and click on Free CME at our CML Links to enter the program.

Colonial Classic (Colorectal Cancer)
Last visited...3/2008
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Cyberounds.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Interactive Game.
Target Audiences....ONCO, SURG.
Educational material last updated....2007.
Financial Support...Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The Colonial is an interactive golf game from Cyberounds. It concerns the evaluation and management of colorectal cancer  with special emphasis on adjuvant chemotherapy. Upon completion of this activity you should be able to discuss the role of adjuvant chemotherapy for Stage IIB colorectal cancer; compare and contrast the types of chemotherapy for IIB; select chemotherapy for adjuvant treatment; describe the role of EGFR testing prior to use of EGFR blocking therapy; and describe the role of VEGF monoclonal antibodies in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Creative Educational Concepts
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...19 activities, offering 0.25 to 2.0 hours, for a total of 13.5 hours.
Awarded by.....Creative Educational Concepts
Cost for Credit.....Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-and-Text (pdf).
Target Audiences....ONCO.
Educational material last updated...2009.
Financial Support...Multiple Pharmaceutical Companies.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

13 of 19 activities are concerning multiple myeloma; the other 6 are sprinkled throughout other medical subjects. 

DiagnosticImaging.com
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Last visited...12/2009.
Credit hours...One course offering 3.0 hours.
Awarded by....CME LLC.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences.....ONCO.
Educ. material last updated...2007.
Financial support...Genentech BioOncology.

A single course, The Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer, offers 3.0 hours of credit.

GliomaEd.com
Last visited....9/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 10 activities offering 0.25 to 1.0 hours each (total of about 8 hours).
Awarded by...AKH Inc, Advancing Knowledge and Healthcare.
Cost.............Free.
Instruction type...Text-Only.
Target audience...NEURO, ONCO, NS.
Educational material last updated...2009.
Financial support....Schering-Plough.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

A series of about 10 activities on the diagnosis and treatment of glioma and glioblastoma. 

Head and Neck Interventional (Cyberounds)
Last visited...3/2009
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Interactive Game.
Target Audience....SURG, ONCO, ENT.
Educational material last updated...2007.
Financial Support...Bristol Meyers Squibb.
CME Credit Expires...August 31, 2009.

The Cyberounds® Head and Neck Interventional is an interactive program on the treatment and management of head and neck cancer. Go to the Cyberrounds main page and click on Free CME at our Head and Neck Interventional to enter the program. 

HemostasisCME.org
Last visited...12/2008.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 6 courses each offering 1.0 hour.
Awarded by....FCG Institute for Continuing Education.
Cost for Credit......Free.
Instruction Type... Slide-Audio Lectures.
Target Audiences...ANES, HEMA, SURG.
Educational material last updated...2008.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

You will find 6 CME activities relating to hemostasis and coagulation issues: Congenital Hemophilia With Inhibitors: Treatment of Bleeding; Hemostatic Strategies in Surgery to Optimize Control of Blood Loss; Coagulation Case Challenge; Acquired Factor VIII Inhibitors: Pathophysiology and Treatment; Unexpected Bleeding Diatheses: Diagnosis and Management; and Optimizing Blood Management in Cardiovascular Surgery: Why & How.

Hollywood Arcade (Cyberrounds - Metastatic Breast Cancer)
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine and interMDnet Corporation.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Interactive Game.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated...2008.
Financial Support...BristolMyers Squibb.

The instruction is presented in the form of a pinball game. After completing this activity, you should be able to: discuss the current management of taxane-resistant metastatic breast cancer; describe recent clinical trials involving newer taxanes and newer chemotherapy (e.g., capecitabine); describe recent clinical trials involving novel agents, e.g., epothilones, as monotherapy or in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of taxane-resistant, metastatic breast cancer; and discuss the mechanisms of action of the various proposed new agents.

InforMEDical Oncology CME
Last visited....2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...3 activities offering a total of 8 credits.
Awarded by....InforMEDical Communications, Inc.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-Only
Target Audience....HEMA, ONCO.
Educ. material last updated...2008.
Financial support...Multiple pharmaceutical companies.
Expiration of CME Credit...1 - 2 years after posting.

Three programs currently offered: Advances in Treating Metastatic Bone Cancer; Advancing Treatment of Bladder Cancer; and Novel Agents in the Treatment of Lung Cancer: Assessing Opportunities for Combination Therapy. 

Medscape Hematology-Oncology
Last visited...10/2009.
Credit hours...Varies from time to time.
Awarded by....Medscape and many other sponsoring organizations.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only, Slide-Audio Lecture, Slide-Video Lecture and Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....HEMA, ONCO.
Educational material last updated...New activities posted frequently.
Financial Support...Many academic, specialty, and commercial sources as well as WebMD.
Expiration of CME Credit...Credit for most activities expires one year after posting.

CME activities of special interest to hematologists and oncologists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:
CONFERENCE COVERAGE - Reports of  advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.
CLINICAL UPDATE - Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
CME-LIVE - Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.
NEWS-CME - Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each
JOURNAL CME - Articles selected from a wide selection of conference reports and peer-reviewed journals, including MedscapeGeneralMedicine (MedGenMed).
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.
INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. 
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

MelanomaCare.org
Last visited...4/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours: 10 webcasts and 5 publications, 1.5 hours each activity (22.5 hours).
Awarded by: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and PharmAdura, LLC.
Cost... Free
Instruction Type... Slide-Video Lecture, audio podcast, Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences... DERM, ONCO, SURG.
Educational material last updated...2009.
Financial support... Schering Corporation.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

You will find 10 webcasts/podcasts; the newest are: Melanoma: A Mysterious Disease?; Scientific and Clinical Interpretation of New Data on IFN-a for Adjuvant Therapy of Melanoma; Signal Transduction Inhibitors in Melanoma; Update on histologic and molecular markers for melanoma; and Optimizing imaging studies for baseline assessment and surveillance of melanoma. You will also find 5 text publications on various aspects of melanoma management. You must fax or mail completed test questions in order to receive CME credit.

Meniscus Limited
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...4 activities offering a total of 4.75 hours.
Awarded by....Meniscus Educational Institute. 
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instr. Type...Slide-Audio-Lecture and Text-Only.
Target Audiences...ONCO.
Educ. material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Various Pharmaceutical Companies.

There are 4 activities at this time: CINV (chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting): Using Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Patient Outcomes; Critical Decision Making in Health Care-Associated Infections: Managing Serious Pediatric Infections; Systemic Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Issues in Preoperative and Adjuvant Treatment; and Special Report: Supportive Care Issues in Cancer No. 2.

MyCME.com Oncology Courses from Johns Hopkins
Last visited...1/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...10 one-hour courses.
Awarded by....Johns Hopkins.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated...2009.
Financial support...None Stated.

One new course per month. Recent activities include: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Management based on EGFR Mutation Status; Colorectal Cancer and Evidence for Cure by Adjuvant Chemotherapy; Oncofertility in Clinical Practice; Evidence for the Use of Circulating Tumor Cells in the Prognostic Stratification of Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer; and Carcinoma of Unknown Primary: Changing Paradigm in the Era of Molecular Profiling.

(The) Oncologist
Last visited...11/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours..."Over 200"
Awarded by....Society for Translational Oncology.
Cost for Credit....$15 or $200 for 20 hours (includes membership in the Society for Translational Oncology.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences....HEMA, ONCO.
Educational material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...sanofi-aventis, OSI Oncology and Takeda.

"Over 200" courses in a wide variety of hematology and oncology areas. Some major areas are: Acute and Chronic Leukemias and Multiple Myeloma; Breast Cancer; Cancer Biology; Clinical Pharmacology; Gastrointestinal Cancer; Genitourinary Cancer; Lung Cancer; Lymphoma; Radiation Oncology; Schwartz Center Rounds; and Symptom Management and Supportive Care. Some newer activities are: Contemporary Imaging in Sarcoma; The Assessment and Management of Delirium in Cancer Patients; Plasma Fibrinogen Levels and Prognosis in Patients with Ovarian Cancer; and Should Patients With High-Risk Soft Tissue Sarcoma Receive Adjuvant Chemotherapy?

Oncology E-Learning Center (formerly Imedex)
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 61 activities; the number of hours is estimated at 120 (not counted).
Awarded by....Imedex, Inc.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Video lectures, podcast, text.
Target Audiences... ONCO.
Educational material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...Various Pharmaceutical Companies.

A variety of courses in oncology. Topics covered are: Breast; Gastrointestinal; General Oncology; Genitourinary; Hematology; and Lung.

OnsiteInsight
Last visited...2/2009.
Credit hours...2 courses offering a total of about 1.5 hours.
Awarded by....Thomson Professional Postgraduate Services.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Newsletter (text) with posttest; also podcast.
Target Audience....CARD, HEMA.
Educational material last updated....9/08.
Financial Support...Alexion, CV Therapeutics, Nitromed and Takeda.

There are currently 2 issues of OnsiteInsight. The latest issue covers topics coming out the recent European Society of cardiology, held in September 2008. The previous issue covers the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in April 2008. Both concern platelets and clotting issues.

OptumHealth Education
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours...About 51 activities offering 1 credit each (51 total credits)
Awarded by....various sponsors.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lecture.
Target Audience....PSYCH, CARD, ONCO.
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

The slide-video lectures currently available are in the following areas: Cardio (6), Infectious Disease (3), Gastroenterology (1), Neuroscience (32), and Oncology (9).

Projects in Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program: Breast Cancer Management  II
Last visited...1/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...12 activities for a total of 14.5 credits.
Awarded by...Projects in Knowledge.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruction Type...Text-Only.
Target Audiences....ONCO.
Educational material last updated...1/2010.
Financial Support...Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and Genentech BioOncology.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

After completing this course, you should be able to: apply evidence-based guidelines to determine optimal treatment interventions for patients with or at risk for developing breast cancer through an understanding of the epidemiology, risk factors, and disease burden imposed by breast cancer, including genetic factors, dietary modification, morbidity, and mortality; assess the role of genetic and other markers in determining optimal treatment selection in breast cancer patients, and in evaluating treatment response to therapy to improve patient outcomes; evaluate the appropriate use of chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy agents in treatment strategies for breast cancer patients that improve outcomes through knowledge of their efficacy and safety; and assess the challenges in promoting treatment compliance, including long-term compliance, and address the long-term consequences of treatment.

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program IV: Bridging Cultural Differences to Improve HBV Treatment in Asian and Other Diverse Communities
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...19 activities for a total of 18 credits. 
Awarded by…Projects In Knowledge. 
Cost for Credit...Free. 
Instruction Type...Text and Audio. 
Target Audiences...GI, ID, ONCO , RHEUM. 
Educational materials last updated...January 29, 2009 (ongoing). 
Financial Support...Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences, Inc. 
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

The fourth year of this program features 19 courses presented online over one year, and offers up to 18 credits. The curriculum contains the latest information on HBV virology and genotyping, screening and diagnosis in the Asian community, AASLD, Keeffe, and APASL hepatitis B virus treatment guidelines, and current and emerging treatment strategies. It will also help clinicians understand the impact of cultural differences in the management of HBV infection, with particular focus on the Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...10 activities for a total of 8.5 credits. 
Awarded by…Projects In Knowledge. 
Cost for Credit...Free. 
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Audio Podcast.
Target Audiences...GI, ONCO , SURG. 
Educational materials last updated...12/09. 
Financial Support...Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

After completing this course, you should be able to: assess the importance of screening, surveillance, diagnosis, and optimal treatment intervention of patients with or at risk of developing HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) through an understanding of the risk factors, disease burden, imaging, and biomarkers to customize interventions leading to improved patient outcomes; analyze the benefits of liver transplantation, surgical resection and ablation therapies in eligible patients with HCC to optimize patient outcomes; compare the benefits of various adjunctive therapies, including ablative therapy, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and chemoembolization; as well as conformal or stereotactic radiation, including radiotherapeutic microspheres, to select single or combined strategies that improve outcomes of patients with HCC; evaluate the benefits of targeted therapeutic agents, based on their efficacy and safety profiles and mechanisms of action, to improve treatment outcomes in patients with HCC; assess tumor- and patient-related factors as predictors of response to determine which patients with HCC are likely to benefit from specific therapies to improve their outcomes; and describe the potential role of systemic chemotherapies in combination with targeted agents, in the future treatment of patients with HCC.

Projects in Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program: Lung Cancer Management
Last visited...3/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...24 activities, each 0.5 to 1.0 hour, for total of 15.5 hours.
Awarded by.....Projects in Knowledge.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio Lectures.
Target Audience....ONCO, HEMA.
Educational material last updated....2/09.
Financial Support...Genentech BioOncology and OSI Oncology.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

This 12-month curriculum explores both non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as well as small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with respect to Guidelines, Assessing at-risk individuals, Screening, Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment. Current and emerging innovative treatment options and strategies in lung cancer are emphasized, such as chemotherapy (including newer agents such as paclitaxel, pralatrexate and talotrexin), chemoradiation, neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy), consolidative chemotherapy, targeted therapies (including vascular endothelial growth factor [VEGF] inhibitors, epidermal growth factor [EGFR] inhibitors, matrix metalloprotease (MMP) inhibitors, farnesyl transferase [FT] inhibitors, multikinase inhibitors, inhibitors of Ras, HDAC, mTOR, Met, MEK, toll and p13K, that include gefitinib, erlotinib, bevacizumab, sunitinib, sorafenib, lonafarnib, vandetanib and cetuximab).

Projects in Knowledge Certificate Program in  Advanced/Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...16 activities, each 0.5 to 1.5 hour, for total of 15.0 hours.
Awarded by.....Projects in Knowledge.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience....ONCO.
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial Support...Bristol-Myers Squibb and ImClone Systems, Genentech BioOncology, and Sanofi-Aventis U.S.
CME Credit Expires...

After completing this course, you should be able to: determine the importance of environmental, dietary, and hereditary risk factors associated with the development of colorectal cancer; analyze the guidelines/recommendations and options for treatment of patients with stage two and stage three colon and rectal cancer; assess the first-line and subsequent treatment options available for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer; and evaluate the options available for multimodal management of patients with resectable metastatic colorectal cancer. 

Projects In Knowledge Living Medical Textbook Hematology Edition: Insights into Managing Leukemia
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...3 chapters, each offering 2.0 hours.
Awarded by.....Projects in Knowledge.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics with links to audio podcasts.
Target Audience....ONCO, HEMA.
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial Support...Bristol-Myers Squibb and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

Three chapters at present: Overview of Leukemia; Lymphoid Leukemia; and Myeloid Leukemia.

Texas Medical Association’s Physician Oncology Education Program (POEP)
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...5 activities offering a total of 23.5 hours.
Awarded by....Texas Medical Association.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...Text-Only.
Target Audience...FP, IM
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

The five activities are: Ovarian Cancer: Designed for the Primary Care Physician (1.0 hour); Pain Primer for Primary Physicians (1.5 hours); Performance Improvement (PI) Continuing Medical Education Project for Primary Care Physicians (20 hours); Survivorship (Lance Armstrong Foundation: Professional Training Opportunities) (hours not stated); and Tobacco Intervention and the Health Care Provider (1.0 hour).

TumorAblationClinic.com
Reviewed by Janice Flahiff, Medical Librarian.
Last visited...6/2008.
Credit hours...4.
Awarded by....CME LLC.
Cost...........Free.
Instruct ion Type...Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience...ONCO, RAD.
Educational material last updated....2006.
Financial Support...Valleylab.

Four articles on the use of radiofrequency (RFA) and cryoablation in the treatment of various tumors: RFA and cryoablation offer safe, effective treatment of bone tumors; Ablation of kidney tumors can treat nonsurgical candidates; RFA in lung cancer: promising results in safety and efficacy; and Expanded treatment of hepatic tumors is possible with RFA and cryoablation. Read all 4 articles before taking the test for CME credit (4 hours).

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