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.