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CLINICAL APPROACH TO CANCER PATIENT
ENGLISH SYLLABUS:
Lesson 1
The cancer patient: the natural pathway of cancer and related patients’ needs:
• Diagnosis, staging and therapy: the outpatient and the role of the Day Service
• The role of the ward during the initial staging of the illness and active therapy
• The follow-up
• The last stage of the disease: role of the ward and of the local structures (GPs, Home help, Hospice)
Clinical case of a patient during the last phase
Lesson 2
EBM: the importance of guidelines and clinical trials
Examples of various guidelines (ESMO and AIOM)
The different phases of clinical trials; example of a randomized phase III clinical trial
Lesson 3
Different settings of treatment:
• Adjuvant and neo-adjuvant treatments: cycles number, frequency, restaging
• Therapy lines of metastatic cancer: cycles number, frequency, restaging
Examples of some chemotherapeutic cycles and therapeutic schemes. A clinical case.
Lesson 4
Other therapies
• The importance of multidisciplinarity
• Curative and palliative surgery and radiotherapy
• Supportive therapies: emesis, growing factors
Lesson 5:
Pain therapy and palliative cares
CLINICAL APPROACH TO CANCER PATIENT
ENGLISH SYLLABUS:
Lesson 1
The cancer patient: the natural pathway of cancer and related patients’ needs:
• Diagnosis, staging and therapy: the outpatient and the role of the Day Service
• The role of the ward during the initial staging of the illness and active therapy
• The follow-up
• The last stage of the disease: role of the ward and of the local structures (GPs, Home help, Hospice)
Clinical case of a patient during the last phase
Lesson 2
EBM: the importance of guidelines and clinical trials
Examples of various guidelines (ESMO and AIOM)
The different phases of clinical trials; example of a randomized phase III clinical trial
Lesson 3
Different settings of treatment:
• Adjuvant and neo-adjuvant treatments: cycles number, frequency, restaging
• Therapy lines of metastatic cancer: cycles number, frequency, restaging
Examples of some chemotherapeutic cycles and therapeutic schemes. A clinical case.
Lesson 4
Other therapies
• The importance of multidisciplinarity
• Curative and palliative surgery and radiotherapy
• Supportive therapies: emesis, growing factors
Lesson 5:
Pain therapy and palliative cares
| Reference books | |||||
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Angelo Raffaele Bianco, Sabino De Placido, Giampaolo Tortora e Pierfranco Conte | Oncologia Clinica 2/ed (Edizione 2) | McGraw-Hill Education (Italy) srl | 2016 | 9788838639845 | |
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Mondays: 20/02/2017; 27/02/2017; 06/03/2017; 13/03/2017; 20/03/2017; 4.30 pm
Classroom: Medical Oncology South Building 3rd floor
Recommended Year: 5th
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