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Activity:

Managing the Side Effects of Medical and Surgical Therapy To Keep the Patient on Therapy

CME Course Duration:

Start Date: 12-31-2009
End Date: 12-29-2010

Speaker: Krista M. Rubin, MS, RN, FNP-C Nurse Practitioner Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA

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Target Audience

This activity is directed toward surgical oncologists, general surgeons, oncology nurses, medical oncologists, dermatologists, and other healthcare professionals who screen for and/or treat melanoma.

Educational Objective

• Identify treatment options for different stages of melanoma.
• Describe potential side effects from surgery and from systemic pharmacologic therapies used to treat melanoma.
• Identify strategies for managing side effects associated with surgical or pharmacologic treatments of melanoma.

Faculty Disclosure Statement

Krista M. Rubin has disclosed she serves as a consultant to Schering-Plough Corporation and that she has participated on the promotional speakers’ bureau for Schering-Plough Corporation.

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