Learning outcomes

This course aims to give a general overview in the cancer setting: from the traslational researche to the clinical one.
Then students will be guided through the management of the cancer patient: from the natural pathway of cancer and the related patients’ needs in particular focusing onto:
• 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)
In the final part of the course there will be the analysis on the EBM: the importance of guidelines and clinical trials
Examples of various guidelines (ESMO and AIOM) and the different phases of clinical trials; example of a randomized phase III clinical trial. importance will be devoted to the various Emergencies in oncology and palliative cares and to
Targeted therapies.

SEDE: auletta biblioteca UOC Oncologia (Direzione/segreterie) Edificio sud 3 piano Policlinico G. B. Rossi

Program

Lesson 1:
Precision Oncology: history, current landscape and new challenges. [Prof. Michele Milella]
Molecular Tumor Board with discussion of clinical cases
Lesson 2:
Illness trajectories and implications for palliative care [Dott.ssa Sara Pilotto]
Lesson 3:
From translational research to clinical practice: from bench to bedside in oncology [Prof. Davide Melisi]
Lesson 4:
Palliative sedation: meaning, approach and end-of-life symptoms [TBD]

SEDE: auletta biblioteca UOC Oncologia (Direzione/segreterie) Edificio sud 3 piano Policlinico G. B. Rossi

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Attendance to the lessons

Lesson 1:
11.05.2022 14.30: precision Oncology: history, current landscape and new challenges [Prof. Michele Milella]
15.30: Molecular Tumor Board with discussion of clinical cases

Lesson 2:
16/05/2022 17.00: Illness trajectories and implications for palliative care [Dott.ssa Sara Pilotto]

Lesson 3:
25/05/2022 17.00: From translational research to clinical practice: from bench to bedside in oncology [Prof. Davide Melisi]

Lesson 4:
30/05/2022 17.00: Palliative sedation: meaning, approach and end-of-life symptoms [TBD]

In the classroom
Recommended Year: 5th
SEDE: auletta biblioteca UOC Oncologia (Direzione/segreterie) Edificio sud 3 piano Policlinico G. B. Rossi