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Introduction to Oncology: Treatment

Description: This course presents basic scientific and medical background information about cancer treatments.

COURSE OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION
1. Course Information
2. Interface Tour
3. Course Overview

BACKGROUND
4. Objectives
5. Background

TREATMENT OPTIONS
6. Objectives
7. Treatment Types
8. Palliative Care
9. Pain Control
10. Radiotherapy
11. Surgery
12. Chemotherapy
13. Immunotherapy
14. Hormone Therapy
15. Progress Check

SIDE EFFECTS
16. Objectives
17. Hematological
18. Non-hematological
19. Opportunistic Infections

ASSESSING TREATMENT
20. Objectives
21. RECIST
22. Imaging
23. Performance Status
24. Progress Check

CONCLUSION
25. Summary

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students completing this course should be able to:

Define what cancer is
Understand some basic causes of cancer
Know where to go for more information
List four different cancer treatments
Define palliative care
List two agents used to control pain
Explain how and when surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy are used
Describe an example of biological therapy
Explain how various hematological effects can arise due to specific cancer treatments
Describe non-hematological side effects, and their possible causes
List common cancer-related opportunistic infections
Explain how RECIST is used to measure tumor response
List three common imaging methods
Match a description of a patient to one of three performance status scales

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