Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Research
Division of Lymphoma
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has no relevant financial relationships.
Physicians - maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
ABIM Diplomates - maximum of 1.00 ABIM MOC points
Nurses - 1.00 ANCC Contact Hour(s) (1 contact hours are in the area of pharmacology)
Pharmacists - 1.00 Knowledge-based ACPE (0.100 CEUs)
IPCE - 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit
This activity is intended for hematologists/oncologists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other clinicians who treat patients with CLL.
The goal of this activity is for learners to be better able to understand the safety and efficacy data on available Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors in CLL and improve their skills in managing treatment-related adverse events.
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Medscape, LLC requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Research
Division of Lymphoma
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has no relevant financial relationships.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
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CME / ABIM MOC / CE Released: 2/24/2023
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The following cases are modeled on the interactive grand rounds approach. The questions within the activity are designed to test your current knowledge. After each question, you will be able to see whether you answered correctly and read evidence-based information that supports the most appropriate answer choice. The questions are designed to challenge you; you will not be penalized for answering the questions incorrectly. At the end of the activity, there will be a short post-test assessment based on the material presented.
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A 58-year-old man presents for a routine workup prior to elective knee surgery. He is a prior smoker and maintains an active lifestyle. While reviewing his laboratory results, his clinician notes that he has a high white blood cell (WBC) count (55 x 109/L). When the clinician asks, the patient reports no symptoms, and he states that he is "as active as ever". A follow-up blood draw 2 months later shows a similar result, and the patient is referred to a hematologist. The hematologist begins a full workup, including ultimately flow cytometry that leads to a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with a CD5/CD23-positive monoclonal B-cell population in the peripheral blood. Testing also determines that the patient has high-risk CLL, with del(17p), using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and a TP53 mutation. In addition, sequencing reveals that he has IGHV unmutated disease. The patient is asymptomatic at this time.
