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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Associate's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 5, EQF-LLL: Level 5, QF-EHEA: Short Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. MUKADDES AVŞAR SARAL
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Radiation therapy technicians work as health care staff member responsible for the radiation treatment of cancer. This course aims to provide basic knowledge of cancer development, progression, and metastasis.
Course Content Course contents include; mechanisms of carcinogenesis, familial and environmental risk factors, cancer progression and metastasis.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Syllabus, introduction
2Concept of benignity, malignancy and cancer
3Causes of carcinogenesis and mutations
4Environmental risk factors for carcinogenesis
5Familial risk factors for carcinogenesis
6Effects of hormones on carcinogenesis
7Midterm exam
8Basic concepts of carcinogenesis and cell death
9Characteristics of normal and cancerous cells
10Cancer progression and angiogenesis
11Metastasis
12Immunological basis of carcinogenesis
13Cancer therapy
14Current issues in cancer research

Resources

1- The biology of cancer (Robert A. Weinberg)
2- Cancer Biology (Raymond W. Ruddon)