Description:
This session will address the clinical issues when evaluating a patient with a cancer diagnosis in the setting of metabolic surgery. Topics covered will include risk reduction, diagnostic and treatment decision-making processes and patient outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
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Understand the impact of obesity and metabolic disease on cancer development, and the effect of bariatric surgery on cancer incidence and cancer-related mortality.
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Understand and recognize the decision-making steps in the morbidly obese patient diagnosed with cancer who presents for bariatric surgical evaluation.
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Understand and recognize the decision-making steps in the post- operative bariatric surgical patient diagnosed with cancer.
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Identify the unique diagnostic difficulties seen in the post bariatric surgical patient with GI-tract associated cancers.
| 3:45pm |
Welcome and Case Presentation Colleen I Kennedy, FASMBS MBA MD |
| 3:55pm |
Obesity, Cancer, and Risk-Reduction With Bariatric Surgery |
| 4:10pm |
Decision-Making Process in the Pre-Operative Bariatric Surgical Patient with Cancer Shanu N Kothari, MD |
| 4:25pm |
Decision-Making Process in the Post-Operative Bariatric Surgical Patient with Cancer Corrigan McBride, MD |
| 4:40pm |
Screening and Diagnostic Dilemmas When Evaluating the Post-Op Bariatric Patient with Possible GI-Tract Associated Cancers Samer Mattar, MD FASMBS |
| 4:55pm |
Case Presentations Tammy Kindel, MD PhD |
| 5:05pm |
Question and Answer |
| 5:15pm | Adjourn |