ESMO Preceptorship on Supportive and Palliative Care

Learning objectives

• Understand mechanisms of the key symptoms and syndromes pain, fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, mucositis, depression and breathlessness, and their association with cancer-disease and anticancer-treatment
• Describe main pharmacological, physical, educational, communicative and coordinating interventions for management of the syndromes cachexia and malnutrition and key symptoms
• Understand integration of screening for and assessment of symptoms and other palliative/supportive care needs, and management in routine oncology care
• Describe required competences of multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams for multimodal management
• Understand the key issues of cancer rehabilitation
• Understand bone health in cancer patients
• Understand the risk and management of venous Thromboembolism in cancer patients
• Understand Cardiotoxicity and its management also in the area of targeted agents
• Know the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines relevant for the topics discussed

Application for the course will close on 2 December 2016

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