Breast Cancer Imaging: Local Perspectives & Problematic Types
Mammography CEUs: 19.0 ASRT Category A Credits
Format: Textbook with Online Final Exam
Price: $209.00
Course Description:
This mammography continuing education course illustrates the best practices for all facets of breast cancer imaging. Contributing authors from a wide range of sub-specialties provide well-rounded guidance to meet the needs of today's multidisciplinary work environment. The textbook relies on a case-based approach.
The course reviews multiple types of breast cancer. You will learn about the evaluation of breast cancers and the staging process used for breast cancer. It also covers imaging options used to survey for recurrent diseases.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the screening of the asymptomatic patient with breast cancer.
- Recognize processes that mimic breast cancer.
- Describe the evaluation of the symptomatic patient with breast cancer.
- Summarize the imaging surveillance for locally recurrent disease.
- Recognize the imaging options for the local staging process.
- Discuss the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- Discuss the unusual and problematic types of breast cancer.
Textbook: Breast Cancer Imaging – A Multidisciplinary, Multimodality Approach; Tartar, Comstock, Kipper
The final exam covers the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Detection of Breast Cancer: Screening of Asymptomatic Patients
Chapter 2: Evaluation of the Symptomatic Patient: Diagnostic Breast Imaging
Chapter 3: Local Staging: Imaging Options and Core Biopsy Strategies
Chapter 4: Unusual and Problematic Types of Breast Cancers: DCIS, Intracystic Papillary Carcinoma, Benign-appearing Breast Cancers, ILC, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, and Breast Cancer in Implant Patients
Chapter 5: Locally Advanced Breast Cancer (LABC) and Neoadjuvant
Chapter 6: Imaging Surveillance for Locally Recurrent Disease
Chapter 7: Breast Cancer Mimics
The online final exam has 120 questions. You must correctly answer at least 75% of them to pass the course.