04982 - Medical Oncology (A-K)

Learning outcomes

At the end of course, student acquires the essential knowledge for optimal clinical management of the patient with cancer. In particular, it learns three main aspects: staging with the diagnostic-therapeutic itinerary, communication with the related psychological aspects and palliation of the patient in an incurable phase of illness. Course consists of a technical part in which the clinical elements are characterized by the choice of drugs and the therapeutic successions integrated with radiotherapy and surgery, and a part with a strong humanistic component in which the treatment of physical pain and other needs of the advanced patient are integrated with the more humanistic aspects of communication with the person and the family, the consideration of advance directives, spirituality and religion.

Course contents

-General oncology:

1. Epidemiology and Etiopathogenesis

2. Biology and natural history of cancer

3. Diagnosis and staging

4. Therapeutic approaches (adjuvant, neoadjuvant, integrated, palliative)

5. Drug therapy (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, molecular target therapy, immunotherapy)

-The clinical approach to cancer patients

-Clinical framework and therapeutic strategy of the main "big killers":

1. Lung cancer

2. Colorectal cancer

3. Breast cancer

4. Prostate cancer

5. Skin cancer (melanoma)

-Clinical trials in oncology

Readings/Bibliography

1."MANUALE DI ONCOLOGIA MEDICA", a cura del COMU- edizione unica (2018)-Libro in uscita a Settembre 2018.

2. "CORE CURRICULUM - ONCOLOGIA CLINICA", 2° edizione, Bianco - De Placido - Tortora - Conte, McGraw-Hill (2015)

3. "ONCOLOGIA MEDICA", 2° edizione, Fortunato Ciardiello, Ildeson-Gnocchi (2017)

4. "ONCOLOGIA: principi e pratica", DeVita - Hellmann - Lawrence - Rosenberg, Piccin (2017)

-Furthermore, during the lectures, the didactic material relating to the single lessons (slides) will be loaded.

Informative books

1. L’imperatore del male. Una biografia del cancro

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Neri Pozza Editore, 2011

2. Capire il cancro: conoscerlo, curarlo, guarire

Lucio Luzzatto, Rizzoli 2006

3. Da bambino avevo un sogno. Tra ricerca e cura, la mia lotta al tumore

Umberto Veronesi, Mondadori 2002

4. I numeri del cancro in Italia 2019 ( File pdf : https://www.aiom.it/i-numeri-del-cancro-in-italia/)

Teaching methods

 

Attendance lessons

Attendance to learning activities is mandatory; the minimum attendance requirement to be admitted to the final exam is 80% of lessons.

Assessment methods

Written (Multiple choice, 4 answers, 1 point for each correct answer, no penalty for wrong answers)

Number of questions: 31

(see the Italian version for details)

Teaching tools

lectures, slides, specialized texts, popular texts, exercises.

 

Students who, due to disability-related reasons or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) need compensatory tools, are invited to inform the teacher of their needs as soon as possible, in order to adopt appropriate measures

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Ardizzoni