- Docente: Mariacristina Di Marco
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student is able to understand main oncological diseases forms, know how to evaluate the clinical signs and recognise the disabilities and limitations of participation into social life that follow in order to set up an adequate rehabilitation intervention.
Course contents
Epidemiology of neoplastic diseases.
Bases of tumor carcinogenesis.
Definition of inheritance and familiarity.
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Main classes of oncological drugs and related toxicity.
Staging of neoplasms.
Definition of chemotherapy, radiotherapy: adjuvant, neoadjuvant and palliative.
Breast cancer: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Colorectal cancer: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Lung cancer: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Stomach cancer: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Pancreatic cancer: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Physiotherapist role in oncological patient management.
Definition, risk factors and classification of breast lymphedema.
Readings/Bibliography
Notes oncology,Manuale di Oncologia Medica COMU (Collegio oncologi medici universitari)
Editors: Minerva Medica ed. 2018
Slides of all the lessons delivered to the students at the end of the lesson
Teaching methods
Teaching methodsThe course will also be characterized by interactivity with the students, in-progress checks will be carried out, in the form of a question or test to verify the real learning of the students during the lessons, to make any further study on some topics of particular importance and interest for the course of treatment and therapy of the oncological patient,
Assessment methods
the exam will be written in the form of multiple choice test the student may, on request, perform an oral test, with agreements from time to time, if the result of the test was not full marks
Teaching tools
Slides of all the lessons delivered to the students at the end of the lesson
Office hours
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