MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
cod. 21428

Academic year 2010/11
4° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Oncologia medica (MED/06)
Field
Clinica delle specialità medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: BLOOD

Learning objectives

The student should aquire knowledge on the molecular and cellular basis of cancer with clinical impact:
- Mechanisms and control of cell proliferation and death
- The immune surveillance in cancer patient

Clinical approach to cancer patients:
Setting the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Plan
- Interpretation of objective data and supporting laboratory and instrumental tests
- The student needs to know the clinical features and elements of the differential diagnosis of palpable or radiologically proven tumors
- The student should be able to interpret haematological indices and reports of the histological diagnosis of malignant disease to obtain the clinical staging
- The student needs to recognize the specificity and clinical relevance of symptoms related to cancer
- The student must know the clinical approach to cancer patient
- The student needs to know the methods of indexing the performance status
- The student should be observer of the diagnostic procedures such as needle aspiration or fine needle biopsies.
- The student should participate to the evaluation of cyto-morphological preparations for diagnsotic purposes.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Mechanisms of oncogenesis. Techniques of molecular diagnostics, cytogenetics and FISH. Paraneoplastic syndromes
Epidemiology of solid tumors
Approach to cancer patients. Tumours of the Lung, Breast and Bowel. General principles of cancer therapy. The new anti-cancer strategies. Complications of cancer treatment

Full programme

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Bibliography

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Teaching methods

Slide presentation and interactive meetings

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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