- Docente: Antonino Musolino
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)
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from Oct 01, 2024 to Dec 10, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of course, student acquires the essential knowledge for optimal clinical management of the patient with cancer. In particular, it learns three main aspects: staging with the diagnostic-therapeutic itinerary, communication with the related psychological aspects and palliation of the patient in an incurable phase of illness. Course consists of a technical part in which the clinical elements are characterized by the choice of drugs and the therapeutic successions integrated with radiotherapy and surgery, and a part with a strong humanistic component in which the treatment of physical pain and other needs of the advanced patient are integrated with the more humanistic aspects of communication with the person and the family, the consideration of advance directives, spirituality and religion.
Course contents
-Basic skills of oncology:
- epidemiology and etiopathogenesis
- biology and natural history
- diagnosis, and staging
- therapeutic modalities (adjuvant, neoadjuvant, integrated, palliative)
- drug therapy (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, molecular target therapy, immunotherapy)
- Clinical approach to cancer patient
- Clinical classification and therapeutic strategy of the main "big killers":
- Lung Cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast and Gynecological cancers
- Neoplasms of the prostate
- Skin cancer
- Basic skills on clinical trials in oncology
Readings/Bibliography
•The Washington Manual of Oncology, 4th edition, Wolters Kluwer editions.
•The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology Sixth Edition.
• Manuale di Oncologia Medica II edizione, COMU, Edizioni Minerva Medica.
• Core Curriculum Oncologia clinica II edizione, Mc Graw Hill.
Popular book
- L’imperatore del male. Una biografia del cancro, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Neri Pozza Editore, 2011.
Teaching methods
Lectures and/or teams platform.
Assessment methods
Final exam: multiple choice quiz (31 questions in 35 minutes, one point for each question, wrong answers are worth 0 as the answers not given) The exam will be cumulative with questions concerning the various modules of the course: anesthesia and pain therapy, radiotherapy, psychology, oncology. In case of refusal / failure of two written tests, the possibility of taking the oral exam will be evaluated. which will include the entire oncology program. The exam can be carried out in person.
Teaching tools
Lessons, slides, texts, popular books, exercises.
Office hours
See the website of Antonino Musolino