Managing the Side Effects of Immunotherapy

Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Eastern Time

Registrants can listen in live over the phone or online as a webcast.

Topics Covered

• How the Side Effects of Immunotherapy Differ from Chemotherapy Side Effects
• Review of Potential Side Effects with Guidelines for Follow-Up Care
• Managing Rash & Dry Skin
• Tips to Cope with Flu-Like Symptoms, including Fever
• Dealing with Fatigue
• Controlling Diarrhea
• Reporting Treatment Side Effects & Discomfort to the Health Care Team
• Tips to Manage Treatment Side Effects & Discomfort
• The Role of Activity/Exercise in Managing Treatment Side Effects
• Key Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team about Quality-of-Life Concerns
• The Increasing Role of Telehealth & Telemedicine
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Balazs Halmos, MD, MS

Director, Thoracic Oncology, Director, Clinical Cancer Genomics, Montefiore Medical Center

Michael K. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor, Cutaneous Cancers, Medical Oncology, Executive Director, Integration and Program Development, Cancer Network, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Alina Markova, MD

Director of Inpatient Consultative Dermatology, Co-Director of Adult and Pediatric Multidisciplinary Graft-versus-host Disease Clinics, Assistant Attending Physician, Dermatology Service, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Elizabeth K. O’Donnell, MD

Clinical Director of Early Detection and Prevention of Cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Diana L. Bearden, MS, RD, CSO, LD, CNSC

Oncology Dietitian, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Carolyn Messner, DSW, BCD, FAPOS, FAOSW

Senior Director of Education and Training, CancerCare

Continuing Education Credits

(Live Only)

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Registered Dietitians: This program has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one Continuing Professional Education Unit (CPEU).

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession, and address to connect@cancercare.org after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed, and submitted within two weeks of the live program.

Brochure

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