Modules
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Introduction to Year 2 and Year Outcomes
- Cardiorespiratory 2
- Metabolism 2
- Brain and Behaviour 2
- Human Development 2
- Human Sciences and Public Health 2
- Locomotor 2
- Cancer Week
- Moving and Handling Training
- Year 2 Lifesaver Programme
- Clinical Communication Skills
- Medicine in Society 2
- Extended Patient Contact
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year 3
- Introduction to Year 3 and Year Outcomes
- Clinical Science and Professionalism (Weeks 1-3)
- Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Haematology (CR3)
- Gastroenterology and Cancer (MET3A)
- Public Health
- Endocrinology and Renal Medicine (MET3B)
- General Practice and Community Care
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Clinical and Communication Skills
- Year 4
- Introduction and Year 4 Outcomes
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Child Health
- HIV & Sexual Health
- Musculoskeletal
- Health Care of the Elderly
- Neuroscience
- Dermatology
- General Practice and Community Care
- Psychiatry
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- Global Health and Ethics
- Ophthalmology
- Clinical & Communication Skills
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year 5
- Introduction to Year 5 and Year Outcomes
- Teaching Week 1
- Teaching Week 2
- Anaesthesia & ITU (AN & ITU)
- Breaking Bad News
- Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Community Care
- Doctors as Teachers and Educators (DATE)
- Emergency Medicine (EMERG MED)
- General (Internal) Medicine (G(I)M)
- Immediate Life Support (ILS)
- Student Assistantship
- Simulation
- Surgery
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year GEP 1
Year GEP 1 : Cancer Week
- Dr David Prowse
- d.m.prowse@qmul.ac.uk
Teaching Material for this Module
Introduction
The aim of the Cancer Module is to build on your knowledge of cancer and to give you further understanding of cancer biology, cancer diagnostics and cancer therapy. The module develops themes relating to cancer and related areas. The key learning outcomes are:
- Appreciate that cancers are complex tissues, understand that cancer development is a multi-step process involving genetic changes and describe the essential alterations in cell physiology that collectively dictate malignant growth, angiogenesis and metastasis.
- Explain the principles of cancer management and therapy.
- Describe the incidence, aetiology and risk factors, pathogenesis, presenting symptoms, main investigative procedures, treatments and prognosis of common cancers, including: breast, lung, female reproductive tract, skin, GI tract, prostate; pancreatic, testicular and haematological cancer.
- Knows how to carry out a consultation with a patient with cancer including the relevant history (GMC TD 13). Begins to communicate effectively with patients and colleagues in a medical context (GMC TD 15)
