Miami Cancer institute Multispecialty Grand Rounds – Bilateral Mastectomy in Women with Unilateral Breast Cancer: Managing Patient Fears Versus Reality

April 14, 2025

Overview

The lecture will review the factors that drive women with unilateral, nonhereditary breast cancer to have a bilateral mastectomy. Much of the fear is focused on fear of recurrence and we will review the presenter's research on risks of contralateral breast cancer and survival benefit. We will finally review the presenter's research on psychosocial outcomes after having bilateral mastectomy compared with unilateral surgery.

Target Audience

Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Hematology Oncologists, Radiation Therapists, Endocrinologists, Pulmonologists, Otolaryngologists, Urologists, Colo -rectal Surgeons, Neurologists, General Surgeons, General Practitioners, Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Nurses, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Dietitians, Patient Navigators and all other interested healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the motivating factors that drive average-risk women with unilateral breast cancer to have a bilateral mastectomy.  
  • Identify the risk of contralateral breast cancer and survival benefits of bilateral mastectomy in average-risk women with unilateral breast cancer. 
  • Identify the psychological outcomes of average-risk women with unilateral breast cancer having bilateral mastectomy compared with unilateral lumpectomy and unilateral mastectomy.  
     
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
Course opens: 
02/16/2025
Course expires: 
04/30/2025
Event starts: 
04/14/2025 - 7:30am EDT
Event ends: 
04/14/2025 - 8:30am EDT
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Venue

Live Webinar
United States

Faculty

David W. Lim, M.D.
Breast Surgical Oncologist
Women’s College Hospital
Medical Director
Toronto, Ontario

David Lim M.D., faculty for this educational activity, is a consultant for AstraZeneca and Merck and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Firas El Chaer, M.D., conference director of this educational activity, is a consultant for Morphosys and an advisor for Amgen, PharmaEssentia, Geron, Syndax, Abbvie, AMPO and CTI Biopharma.  

Robert Press, M.D., conference director of this educational activity, does not have any financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sarah Joseph, M.D., Moderator of this educational activity, does not have anyrelevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose. 

All relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated. 

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.  

*Ineligible Companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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Accreditation

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-680158, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and by the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.

This activity has also been approved for 1 credit hour for Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists, Dietitians, Sonographers and Respiratory Therapists. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy

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