NEOPLASTIC DISEASES
cod. 1000190

Academic year 2010/11
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Patologia generale (MED/04)
Field
Discipline biotecnologiche comuni
Type of training activity
Characterising
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF REGENERATION AND REPAIR

Learning objectives

To provide information required to understand the interaction between tumor and the host, the clinical consequences of this interaction, and the biological bases of antitumor terapies

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Lectures will concern:
a) neoplastic cachexia
b) the paraneoplastic syndromes
c) hematologic and hemostatic alterations in malignancy
d) tumor immunology
e) the biuological bases of antitumor therapy: chemotherapy
f) the biuological bases of antitumor therapy: biological drugs

Full programme

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Bibliography

Kumar, Abbas, Fausto, Aster
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease 8th ed., Saunders 2009
Bibliografic references are given during the lectures

Teaching methods

Oral lessons will use visual support with immages taken from textbooks and scientific literature. This material will be provided to te students at the end of the course

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

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