Program Overview

The NCCN 2027 Breast Cancer Congress with Updates from the 2026 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is a CE-certified program designed for health care professionals who provide care for patients with breast cancer.

This congress offers expert insights into current recommendations of care for patients with breast cancer and highlights the latest clinical research updates to assist clinicians in formulating breast cancer management strategies.

This program has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ABIM, ABPath, ABS, and ABMS MOC credits for physicians, and will award contact hours for PAs, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other health care professionals.

Intended Audience

This program is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician associates, pharmacists, and other health care professionals who manage patients with breast cancer.

Goal of Education & Overall Congress Objectives

The ultimate goal for NCCN continuing education is to improve the competence and performance of clinicians and positively impact the quality of care for patients with cancer.

The goal of the NCCN 2027 Breast Cancer Congress with Updates from the 2026 SABCS is to ensure that members of the interprofessional oncology care team have the knowledge and skills necessary to:

  • Apply the current standards of oncology care and key updates in the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) to optimize the management of patients with breast cancer.
  • Review new, emerging, and novel therapeutic agents and treatment strategies and incorporate these into the management of patients with breast cancer.
  • Communicate with members of the interprofessional oncology care team to improve collaborative performance in the management of patients with cancer and the delivery of oncology care.

See agenda for individual session learning objectives.

Accreditation Statements

Joint Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians
NCCN designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
NCCN designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.5 contact hours.

Pharmacists
NCCN designates this knowledge-based continuing education activity for 6.5 contact hours (0.65 CEUs) of continuing education credit.

UAN: TBD

PAs
NCCN has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, NCCN is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. NCCN maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 6.5 continuing education credits.

Case Managers
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers. Credit approval for case managers is pending for this program.

 

American Board of Pathology Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

This activity has been registered to offer credit in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program. Successful completion of this CME activity enables the participant to earn up to 6.5 Lifelong Learning (Part II) credits.

Aggregated participant data will be shared with the commercial supporters of this activity.

American Board of Surgery Continuous Certification (CC)

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

NCCN CONTINUING EDUCATION DISCLOSURE POLICY

It is the policy of NCCN that all planners, faculty, moderators, authors, reviewers, and anyone involved in the planning and delivery of NCCN continuing education activities are expected to disclose ALL financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. The ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence require that individuals who refuse to provide this information will be disqualified from involvement in the planning and implementation of accredited continuing education presented by NCCN. NCCN identifies, mitigates, and discloses to learners all relevant financial relationships.

In addition, all content has been reviewed to ensure education promotes safe, effective patient care and does not promote the products or services of an ineligible company. Content, including any presentation of therapeutic options, is fair, balanced, evidence-based, scientifically accurate, and free of commercial bias and marketing.

If you have any questions, please e-mail education@nccn.org.