COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CANCER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
OKE 5007 NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CANCER COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

CANCER APIDEMIOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HÜLYA ELLIDOKUZ

Offered to

CANCER APIDEMIOLOGY

Course Objective

Epigenetic features in the prevention of cancer ; Diet and cancer - epigenetic features ; Cancer Molecular Epidemiology / Molecular Nutrition relationship ,Diet and nutritional and molecular biomarkers in Cancer Epidemiology ; Nutritional modulation in cancer formation ; Carcinogenesis and specific nutrients ; Nutritional genomics and proteomics in chemoprevention of cancer ; Properties of metabolomics in Cancer Research ; Cancer - specific DNA methylation and acetylation; Nutritional and molecular targets for cancer chemoprevention ; Bioactive nutrients and cancer chemoprevention ; Inhibitors of cancer formation : functional foods ; Common type of cancer in Europe and America and Chemoprevention / diet ; Common type of cancer in Asia Pacific countries and Chemoprevention / diet ; Common type of cancer in Turkey and Chemoprevention / diet ; seminars .

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to know the etiology of cancer.
2   Be able to know clinical and genetic cancer epidemiology
3   Be able to understand cancer epidemiology at the molecular level.
4   Be able to get information about relationship of cancer and nutrition
5   Be able plan and implement epidemiological researches.
6   Capable of studies involving different disciplines makes the group work.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Relationship with Cancer Molecular Epidemiology / Molecular Nutrition
2 epigenetic features In the prevention cancer / Diet- epigenetic relationship
3 gene - diet / nutrient relations In cancer chemoprevention / nutritional genomics
4 Nutritional modulation in cancer formation ; Carcinogenesis and the specific nutrient
5 Nutrigenetics and cancer.
6 Nutrition -related cancers; genetic and molecular epidemiological studies in hormonal relationships
7 Nutritional and molecular Biomarkers in Diet and Cancer Epidemiology
8 Molecular epidemiological studies , nutritional planning, assessment and evaluation methods , questionnaire and diet-related measurement errors
9 Cancer- energy balance , glycemic load and obesity
10 Nutritional and molecular targets for cancer chemoprevention
11 Chemoprevention of cancer : nutritional and molecular targets, Bioactive nutrients
12 Chemoprevention of cancer ; Inhibitors of cancer formation : functional foods
13 The working examples from around the world and our country evaluation of cancer chemoprevention
14 a common type of cancer In Turkey,; chemoprevention and dietary characteristics
15 Seminar
16 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

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 2 32
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 1 15
Preparation for final exam 1 11 11
Preparing assignments 3 10 30
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.14
LO.24
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65

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