Midwifery | University of Parma

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
cod. 01756

Professor

Academic discipline

Oncologia medica (MED/06)

Field

Interdisciplinari e cliniche

Type of training activity

Characterising

10 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

hub: -

course unit
in - - -

Learning objectives

learning of basic notions of oncology

Prerequisites

- - -

Course unit content

mechanisms of oncogenesis,clinical aspects of the main solid tumours,principles of radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Full programme

-Molecular and cellular basis of cancer and its clinical impact
- The immune surveillance in cancer patient
- Pathogenetic and Clinical Aspects of Breast, Lung, Colorectal, Gastric, Prostate and Genitourinary Cancer

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 diagnostic purposes

Bibliography

Medicina Oncologica-Bonadonna,Robustelli Della Cuna
Oncologia Medica-Ciardiello, Idelson Gnocchi

Teaching methods

lectures,with slides

Assessment methods and criteria

oral examination

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY cod. 01756