Oncocorner

Online Course
on demand

Dec
2023

Cancer Pain Academy

Description

Following the Cancer Pain Academy, an in-person course held in Rome on 13-14 December 2023, educational on-demand content is now available free of charge via OncoCorner.

The course aimed at creating an interactive programme dedicated to oncologists, surgeons, nurses, patient advocates, radiologists, anaesthesiologists and pharmacists to help improve the quality of cancer pain management and to deepen the holistic approach in this care with the points of view of different experts.

Course Format

- Plenary lectures on state-of-the-art clinical treatments with reference to clinical guidelines

- Clinical case presentations and discussion with an international faculty of top experts

- Ground round workshop to put learnings into practice

Learning Objectives

- To raise awareness about the essentials of cancer pain (i.e., pathophysiology of cancer pain and how to assess classify it)

- To discuss the management of pain cases (an interdisciplinary panel discussion)

- To focus on the importance of when and how to involve the interdisciplinary care team in the care plan

- To educate participants on coping with stressful situations in managing cancer patients with pain

Main Topics

- Pathophysiology of cancer pain

- Assessment and classification of cancer pain

- ESMO & country guidelines in the treatment of cancer pain

- Multimodal management of cancer pain treatment

- Biopsychosocial model of treating cancer pain

- Involvement of interdisciplinary teams in the care plan

Accreditation and Certificates

Application for CME recognition has been submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS).

The programme was recognised as being of high quality from both a scientific and didactic point of view and was awarded 7 CME credits.

EACCME credits are recognised by the American Medical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA).

Participants will be issued a certificate of attendance (minimum attendance: 75% of the entire course). An online evaluation questionnaire and learning assessment test will need to be completed in order to get the certificate that will be issued by email.

Acknowledgements

This course is made possible thanks to independent educational grants from Cloud Pathology Group and Mundipharma.

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DAY 1

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Welcome, introduction and objectives

Chair: Aapro Matti, CH

Chair: Ahmedzai Sam, UK

Chair: de Munter Johan , BE

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Unlearning and healing chronic pain

Discussant: Schubiner Howard, US

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Essentials of cancer pain: the pathophysiology of cancer pain and how to assess and classify it

- Pathophysiology

- Assessment and classification

Discussant: Morlion Bart, BE

Discussant: Shkodra Morena , IT

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Learning from the best – expert top tips

- ESMO and country guidelines

- Multimodal management

- Biopsychosocial model

- EFIC guidelines for pain management in Cancer Patients

Discussant: Ahmedzai Sam, UK

Discussant: Eisenberg Elon, IL

Discussant: Fallon Marie, UK

Discussant: Travado Luzia, PT

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Managing pain cases – an interdisciplinary panel discussion

- Multidisciplinary Care of Pain at Advanced Pancreatic Cancer – Manjola Luzi, AL

- Cervical Cancer Pain: a challenge to improve Quality of Life in a young patient – Giulia Manessi, IT

- A Case Report of Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia (OIH) - Juarda Gjonbrataj, AL

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3 12-minute cases prepared by Faculty

- A case of cancer pain: the specific role of radiotherapy
- A case of cancer pain: how to evaluate the risk of vertebral fracture and the need for neurosurgical intervention

- A case of cancer pain: how assessment and treatment are organised in China

Discussant: Billiet Charlotte, BE

Discussant: Duff John M., CH

Discussant: Liu Dongying, CN

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Closing remarks

Chair: Ahmedzai Sam, UK

14/12/2023 CET

DAY 2

14/12/2023 CET

Welcome back and regroup

Chair: Aapro Matti, CH

Chair: Ahmedzai Sam, UK

Chair: de Munter Johan , BE

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Collaboration is key – when and how to involve the interdisciplinary care team in the care plan

Discussant: de Munter Johan , BE

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Grand rounds regroup

- Pain in a young woman with breast cancer - Catalina Gabriela Bezarau, RO

- Patient with tongue cancer: a multidisciplinary approach to pain management and supportive care - Magdalena Bitner-Bieleszuk, PL

- You’re getting on my nerves: Challenges in neuropathic pain - Francisco Javier Calleja Holgado, ES

- The difficulty in managing superficial necrotic tumor lesions – Ricardo Roque, PT

- Pain management in metastatic colon cancer - Nino Laperashvili, GE

- Multiple myeloma, Bortezomib – Anna Zilic, RS

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Communication with patients: do’s and don’ts

Discussant: Fallowfield Lesley, UK

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Dealing with stressful situations in managing cancer patients with pain

Discussant: Travado Luzia, PT

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Closing remarks

Chair: Aapro Matti, CH

Chair: Ahmedzai Sam, UK

Chair: de Munter Johan , BE

Aapro Matti

Sharing Progress in Cancer Care and Clinique de Genolier, Bellinzona and Genolier, Switzerland

Ahmedzai Sam

The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Billiet Charlotte

Iridium Netwerk, Wilrijk, Belgium

de Munter Johan

University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Duff John M.

Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland

Eisenberg Elon

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Fallon Marie

Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Fallowfield Lesley

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Liu Dongying

Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Tianjin, China

Morlion Bart

University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Schubiner Howard

Clinical Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, USA

Shkodra Morena

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Travado Luzia

Clinician and Researcher of Psycho-Oncology at Champalimaud Clinical & Research Centre, Lisbon, Portugal