VCU Massey Cancer Center NCORP-MU Clinical Research Affiliate Network Cancer Symposium

The cancer symposium provides continued professional education and brings together clinicians and research staff at Massey with their seven affiliated community hospitals and oncology practices.

Affiliate Retreat:

Oncologists and clinical cancer researchers from across the state will gather for VCU Massey Cancer Center’s tenth annual Cancer Symposium and Clinical Research Affiliation Network Retreat on March 20, 2021. The Cancer Symposium provides continued professional education for medical oncologists and research staff while the retreat portion helps facilitate the operations of Massey’s Clinical Research Affiliate Network, which works to bring clinical trials to seven affiliated community hospitals and oncology practices in Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Metro Richmond, South Hill, Newport News and Winchester. The retreat also aims to develop deeper connections, collaborations and knowledge sharing to ultimately improve cancer care and increase access to cutting-edge clinical trials throughout Virginia.

1. Describe the treatment approach of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
2. Describe extent to which older patients are not accrued to cancer clinical trials and ways to improve accrual.
3. Describe recent advances in therapy for elderly AML patients including targeted therapy.

Registration is complementary and required.

Affiliate Retreat:

Please select if you plan to attend the Affiliate Retreat

In support of improving patient care, VCU Health Continuing Education 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.

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclaimers
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

Saturday, March 20, 2021