Medical oncology course provides students with the basic knowledge relative to neoplastic diseases both under the etio-pathogenetic and bio-molecular point of view and under the clinical point of view. In this latter context students will learn about the most recent achievements in the field of prevention, diagnosis and therapy of the major tumors . A special enphasis is devoted in treating the topics of greater interest to community physicians and general practioners,
Knowledge and understanding
1)To become confident with the main clinical syndromes; to identify disease signs and symptoms to correctly diagnose tumor conditions ; to learn how to use appropriately imaging and lab techniques to diagnose, stage and classify tumors
2) to become confident with the major classification systems and with response criteria ; to become able to intercept patient and care-givers’ needs;
3) to become confident with the principle bio-molecular techniques and to interpret the reports relative to their clinical applications in major tumors;
4) to become confident with modern therapeutic strategies and with the main therapeutic tools available to day.
Abilities
1)to collect patient history and in particular the information more useful for tumor diagnosis and patient management
2)to learn how to inform patients about their disease and to share with them the most appropriate therapeutic options
3)to achieve adequate skills to examin the patient and to manage with the most appropriate imaging and lab examinations
4)to become sufficientely skilled in diagnosticate neoplastic diseases and in decision making
Medical Oncology course includes Oncology classes (=21 hours) and attendance of the clinical ward for students who choice to spend their professional training in Medical oncology .
Principles of diagnosis, staging,classification ; patient engagement;evaluation of tumor response and clinical benefit, simultaneous care models
Tumor prevention- Screening- Chemo-prevention
Cytotoxic chemotherapy- general principles: activity, efficacy, toxicity
Hormonal therapies- general principles: activity, efficacy, toxicity
New molecular targets and principles of immunotherapy
Methodology of clinical trials in Oncology
Multimodal therapies: adjuvant and neo-adjuvant therapies; palliative treatment of cancer
EBM; how to utilize medical guidelines
Diagnosis and tretament of colo-rectal cancer and of cancer of the upper GI
Diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer (melanoma)
Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer
Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer
Diagnosis and treatment of GU neoplasms (prostate, testis,kidney,urothelial tumors)
Diagnosis and treatment of gynecological tumors
Suggested text books
Bianco, DePlacido, Tortora & Conte
Core curriculum of Clinical Oncology 2/ed
Mc Graw Hill Education (Italy)
Harrison: Principles of Internal medicine
Ed CEA 2016- chapters dedicated to neoplastic diseases
The whole set of slides concerning lessons is available at the website Unige-Aula web
FRANCESCO BOCCARDO (President)
ROBERTO MASSIMO LEMOLI (President)
ALESSANDRA RUBAGOTTI (President)
MARIO ROBERTO SERTOLI (President)
ELISA ZANARDI (President)
ANTONIA CAGNETTA
MICHELE CEA
MAURIZIO MIGLINO
MARCO GOBBI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
The final test includes 62 questions (31 hematology and 31 oncology) with multiple choice (only one is correct).
One point is assigned to each correct answer relative to each test (i.e. Hematology and medical Oncology) and the students are requested to answer correctly at least to 18 questions of each test to pass the exam. Students responding correctly to all the questions of each test are conferred the score of 30/30 cum laude. The final score is calculated through the weighed mean resulting from the sum of the scores obtained for each test.
The whole set of slides concerning the lessons is available at the website Unige-Aula web
Students who cannot attend the whole course of lessons, can consult the suggested texts and the slides available at the Web site.
Teachers are committed to provide students with supplemental explanation and discussion of the more controversial issues
Students failing the tests can discuss their elaborates with their teachers in order to focus on their mistakes and receive further elucidations about the specific topic.