DESCRIPTION
This webinar will outline some of the challenges faced by previvors and survivors of hereditary cancer risk, with a focus on breast cancer. CEU's will be offered free of charge for attendees of this webinar.
Speaker: Sue Friedman, DVM, Executive Director of Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE)
The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) is to offer up to 1.5 Category 1 contact hours for the event Hereditary Cancer Survivorship and Previvorship Across the Care Continuum: Patient and Advocate Perspectives. The American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) will accept CEUs earned at this program for the purposes of genetic counselor certification and recertification.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain the challenges and barriers faced by breast cancer survivors and previvors related to decision-making around hereditary cancer risk, prevention and treatment
- Outline results from FORCE's 2024 needs assessment survey
- List resources available for patients to help them overcome these barriers
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