COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CANCER ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
OKE 5001 CANCER ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

CANCER APIDEMIOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YASEMIN BAŞBINAR

Offered to

Oncology Nursing
CANCER APIDEMIOLOGY
Canser Epidemiology

Course Objective

Oncology: past, present, mechanisms of carcinogenesis, cancer etiology, cancer and hereditary, cancer epidemiology, tumor immunology, preneoplastic lesions and carcinoma in situ, tumor classification, tumor staging, diagnostic methods for tumor pathology, cytopathology in the diagnosis of tumor location, common clinical findings and diagnostic methods in cancer for adulds and children, cancer early detection and screening, cancer prevention, The basic principles of cancer surgery, The basic principles of radiation oncology, the basic principles of chemotherapy, and side effects of chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and biological response modifier general principles,
General principles of cell and gene therapy, stem cell therapy, bone marrow transplantation general principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to know the etiology of cancer
2   Be able to know cancer epidemiology.
3   Be able to understand mechanism of carcinogenesis
4   Capable of prepare and present oral and written presentations in the field of cancer epidemiology.
5   Be able to multidisciplinary work in cancer.
6   Be able to critically evaluates the published literature in the field of epidemiology.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General mechanism in the etiology of cancer-1
2 General mechanism in the etiology of cancer-2
3 Chemical carcinogenesis-1
4 Chemical carcinogenesis-2
5 Radiation carcinogenesis
6 Viral carcinogenesis-1
7 Viral carcinogenesis-2
8 Oncogenes-1
9 Oncogenes-2
10 Tumor suppressor genes
11 Apoptosis genes
12 Chromosomal aberrations in cancer
13 Susceptibility to cancer
14 Cancer and pre-neoplastic syndromes pathogenesis-1
15 Cancer and pre-neoplastic syndromes pathogenesis-2
16 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): 1.Cancer Epidemiyology Principles and Methods.(Internationel Agency for Research on Cancer) WHO
2.Textbook of Cancer Epidemiyology (Hans-Abu Ademi, David Hunter, Dimitrios Trichopoulor) 2002, Oxford University.
3. Sağlıkta Araştırma Teknikleri ve Analiz Yöntemleri (Prof.Dr.Gazanfer Aksakoğlu)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical Lectures, the topics in-class activities (presentations and assignments) to consolidate and discussion and home work.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.20 + FIN* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.20 +RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. The learner will clearly define outlined which will evaluate with exam and homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 1 15
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 3 10 30
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.11
LO.22
LO.33
LO.44
LO.55
LO.6