Combined Bachelor's + Master's degree in Medicine and Surgery

Clinical approach to cancer patient  (Corso Elettivo)

Course code

4S004102

Name of lecturers

Giampaolo Tortora, Emilio Bria, Sara Pilotto

Coordinator

Giampaolo Tortora

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1

Academic sector

MED/06 - MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Language of instruction

Italian

Period

Corsi elettivi 2° semestre dal Feb 19, 2018 al May 25, 2018.

Lesson timetable

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Learning outcomes

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

Syllabus

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

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