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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.

Learning Outcomes

Basic level knowledge about the field of medicine in which one would serve as indermediate level personnel, and the qualification to practice such knowledge.
Proficiency in the medical terminology in radiation oncology.
Competence in the access to information and technology and the use of these in radiation oncology.
Qualification in working as a team oncologist and medical physicist.
Competence in establishing effective communication with radiation oncologist and medical phisicist, as wellas patiens, colleagues and other segments of the society.
Competence in familiarity with devices used in radiation onkology and the ability to follow the technological developments concerning such equipment.
Competence in taking medical history, preparing files etc. in radiation oncology.
Competence in computer skills.
Hospitals application is made.
Technical excursions are organized.
Acquiring the habit of following developments concerning the profession.
Qualification in obtaining the conception of life-long learning and self-improvement.
Competence in adopting and applying ethical principles and professional values.
Competence in realizing team effort.
Proficiency in shouldering professional responsibility.

Weekly Course Subjects

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

Resources

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