Identify new treatment strategies for managing cancer-associated pain, learn to communicate compassionately and honestly about disease status and understand ways to manage the long-term side effects of adjuvant therapy in breast cancer survivors Describe controversies regarding different HER2 testing methods, understand recent data regarding new prognostic and predictive molecular and clinical markers, identify implications of a diagnosis of lobular carcinoma in situ and describe the issues following a core needle biopsy diagnosis of breast cancer Describe and understand the optimal systemic therapy to reduce the risk of recurrence in patients with early stage breast cancer Describe the advances made in identifying patients with genetic abnormalities that increase risk for developing breast cancer Describe and understand the reconstructive surgical options available to patients with early stage breast cancer Describe and understand the gene expression patterns in tumor tissue that correlate with response or resistance to anti-cancer therapies Describe the potential benefits and risks of partial breast irradiation techniques

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