Target Audience
This program is intended for medical oncologists, hematologists, hematology-oncology fellows and other allied healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of hematologic cancers.
Learning Objectives
- Individualize the selection and sequencing of systemic therapy for patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), considering clinical presentation, age, performance status, biomarker profile and coexisting medical conditions.
- Discuss available Phase III data demonstrating the superior efficacy and safety of Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibition compared to standard chemoimmunotherapy as first-line therapy for patients with CLL, and use this information to discern how this strategy can be optimally integrated into nonresearch treatment.
- Assess the FDA approval of venetoclax in combination with obinutuzumab as front-line therapy for CLL, and determine how to appropriately integrate this regimen into treatment decision-making.
- Understand published research data informing the selection, sequencing or combining of available therapeutic agents in the nonresearch care of patients with previously untreated or R/R follicular lymphoma (FL).
- Appreciate available data investigating rituximab/lenalidomide for patients with treatment-naïve and R/R FL, and optimally incorporate this therapeutic approach into treatment algorithms.
- Recognize the recent FDA approval of tazemetostat for R/R FL, and identify patients for whom treatment with this novel agent may be appropriate.
- Review available efficacy and safety data with CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapies for patients with R/R FL or R/R CLL, and consider the current and future role of this strategy in clinical practice.
- Assess the ongoing clinical trials evaluating other novel investigational approaches for FL and CLL, and obtain consent from appropriate patients for study participation.
CME Credit Form
CME and ABIM MOC credit form links will be emailed to each participant within 5 days of the activity.
Accreditation Statement
Research To Practice is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
Research To Practice designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) — Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Please note, this program has been specifically designed for the following ABIM specialties: medical oncology and hematology.
Personal information and data sharing: Research To Practice aggregates deidentified user data for program-use analysis, program development, activity planning and site improvement. We may provide aggregate and deidentified data to third parties, including commercial supporters. We do not share or sell personally identifiable information to any unaffiliated third parties or commercial supporters. Please see our privacy policy at ResearchToPractice.com/Privacy-Policy for more information. For those clinicians wishing to receive ABIM MOC credit for attending, you will receive an email after the event with instructions.
Disclosure Policy
Research To Practice (RTP) is committed to providing its participants with high-quality, unbiased and state-of-the-art education. We assess conflicts of interest with faculty, planners and managers of CME activities. Conflicts of interest are identified and resolved through a conflict of interest resolution process. In addition, all activity content is reviewed by both a member of the RTP scientific staff and an external, independent physician reviewer for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies referenced and patient care recommendations.
FACULTY — Dr Fowler has no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. The following faculty reported relevant conflicts of interest, which have been mitigated through a conflict of interest mitigation process:
Prof Gribben —
Advisory Committee: AbbVie Inc, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Janssen Biotech Inc, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Kite, A Gilead Company, MorphoSys, Novartis;
Consulting Agreements: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Celgene Corporation, Janssen Biotech Inc;
Data and Safety Monitoring Board/Committee: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
Dr Kahl —
Advisory Committee: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP;
Consulting Agreements: AbbVie Inc, Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Roche Laboratories Inc, TG Therapeutics Inc;
Contracted Research: Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, BeiGene Ltd, Celgene Corporation, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group;
Data and Safety Monitoring Board/Committee: Celgene Corporation.
MODERATOR — Dr Love is president and CEO of Research To Practice. Research To Practice receives funds in the form of educational grants to develop CME activities from the following companies: AbbVie Inc, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Amgen Inc, Array BioPharma Inc, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, Astellas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, BeiGene Ltd, Blueprint Medicines, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, Clovis Oncology, Daiichi Sankyo Inc, Eisai Inc, Epizyme Inc, Exact Sciences Inc, Exelixis Inc, Five Prime Therapeutics Inc, Foundation Medicine, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Gilead Sciences Inc, GlaxoSmithKline, Grail Inc, Halozyme Inc, Helsinn Healthcare SA, ImmunoGen Inc, Incyte Corporation, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc, Janssen Biotech Inc, administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC, Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Kite, A Gilead Company, Lilly, Loxo Oncology Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company, Merck, Novartis, Novocure Inc, Oncopeptides, Pfizer Inc, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Puma Biotechnology Inc, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, Sanofi Genzyme, Seagen Inc, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology Inc, Taiho Oncology Inc, Takeda Oncology, Tesaro, A GSK Company, TG Therapeutics Inc, Turning Point Therapeutics Inc and Verastem Inc.
RESEARCH TO PRACTICE CME PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, STAFF AND REVIEWERS
Planners, scientific staff and independent reviewers for Research To Practice have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.
Supporters
This activity is supported by educational grants from AbbVie Inc, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Incyte Corporation, Oncopeptides, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech Inc, administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC, Sanofi Genzyme, Seagen Inc, and Takeda Oncology.