Postgraduate Specialisation in Pathological Anatomy

Clinical pathology

Course code

4S01666

Name of lecturer

Silvia Sartoris

Coordinator

Silvia Sartoris

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2

Academic sector

MED/05 - CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Language of instruction

Italian

Period

not yet allocated

Learning outcomes

Update on some immunopathology topics important for the pathologist: immunopathology or cancer and autoimmunity.

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Immunopathology of cancer and autoimmunity. Tumor immunology and tumor antigens
2. Passive and active immunotherapy – correlation with tumor microenvironment
3. Immmunoevasion mechanisms
4. Exosomes, Microbiota and cancer. Building a“cancer immunogram”

Assessment methods and criteria