NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001

Vol 8, No 6 CME Pretest

This Journal provides 4 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education

Complimentary CME Credits

Physicians can earn 4 credit hours of Category 1 for the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association by reading the material in this issue and successfully answering the questions in the posttest at the end of this issue. Complete instructions are given on the posttest pages. Successfully answering 30 or more questions will earn 4 credit hours.

Educational Objectives

After reading this issue of Cancer Control, clinicians will be expected to:

• recommend initial therapy for clinically localized disease,
  
  
• provide a sound prognosis,
  
  
• describe the major side effects of the commonly used initial treatments, and
  
  
• prescribe antitumor interventions, both hormonal and nonhormonal, for patients with advanced disease.

Also, they will be able to recognize the symptoms and findings in carcinoid heart disease.

This program was planned in accordance with ACCME Essentials.

Release Date: November 1, 2001
Expiration Date: November 1, 2002

1. A combination of mitoxantrone plus prednisone is likely to produce what outcome in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer?

a. impair performance status
b. enhance pain relief
c. shorten survival
d. prolong survival

2. Which artery supplies the prostate gland?

a pudendal
b. inferior vesical
c. urethral
d. inferior mesenteric

3. What is the expected incidence of impotence following cryosurgery for prostate cancer?

a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%