COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSLATIONAL AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRO 5007 TRANSLATIONAL AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Translational Oncology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ILHAN ÖZTOP

Offered to

Translational Oncology
Translational Oncology

Course Objective

The purposes of the course, graduate students are developing translational perspective. In this course; clinical follow-up from the laboratory to the bedside, based on the molecular characteristics chemotherapy, radiotherapy applications, immunotherapy, nutrition, palliative care issues will be discussed in the general information. Organospecific clinical approaches will be discussed and will learn about the principles of randomized clinical trials.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowledgeable about the concept of translational medicine from the bench to the bed.
2   Be able to recognize and comprehend the general outline of modern oncology practice
3   Be able to recognize and comprehend the general outline of molecular based therapy in translational oncology
4   Be able to critically evaluate the published literature in the field of the translational oncology
5   Be able to critically evaluate the organospecific cancer research
6   Be able to understand the importance of a multi-disciplinary team work in translational oncology practice

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of Translation " from bench to bed" 1
2 The concept of Translation " from bench to bed" 2
3 The modern practice of oncology
4 Multi-disciplinary teamwork
5 Molecular screening in diagnosis
6 Organospecific cancers 1
7 Organospecific cancers 2
8 Organospecific cancers 3
9 Organospecific cancer treatments 1
10 Organospecific cancer treatments 2
11 Organospecific cancer treatments 3
12 Translational oncology practice 1
13 Translational oncology practice 2
14 Randomized clinical trials 1
15 Randomized clinical trials 2

Recomended or Required Reading

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th Edition. Ed. Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter. Garland Publishers
Essential Cell Biology - 4th Edition Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter Garland Publishers
The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition, Robert A. Weinberg, Garland Publishers
Molecular Biology of the Gene, 7th edition, James Watson, Alexander Gann, Tania Baker, Michael Levine, Stephan Bell, Richard Losick, Stephan Harrison Pearson Cold Spring harbor Laboratory Press.
Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine, Dongfeng Tan, henry Lynch, Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams&Wilkins.
The Handbook of Biomarkers, Kewal Jain, Humana Press
Translational and Experimental Clinical Research, Daniel Schuster, William Powers, Lippincott Williams&Wilkins.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, the topics with classroom activities (presentations and homework assignments) to consolidate and discussion

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 LO1, LO2, LO3, LO6 which will evaluate with exam.
2. The learner will recognize, LO4, LO5 will evaluate with homework, prepared presentations by themselves and exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

oktay.tarhan@deu.edu.tr; 0 232 412 58 01

Office Hours

Monday 10:00-11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 4 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 10 5 50
Preparing presentations 5 5 25
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1555555
LO.25555555
LO.35555555
LO.455555
LO.5555555
LO.6555555