Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Optics and Optometrics)
Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Human Alimentation)
Course objectives
Main objective of Oncology can be summarized as follow:
to learn, how is possible to avoid development of cancer,
To learn all, what is necessary for early detection of every malignant disease in early stage and early refer the patients to the specialised oncologic therapy.
All doctors has to know, how to treat usually and anusually complication of malignant disease and complication of therapy. Therefore great attention is given to the supportive, symptomatic and paliative therapy.
Syllabus
Pathogenesis of malignant disease. Chemotherapy, biotherapy and hormonotherapy. Radiotherapy. Histological and clinical staging. Bone marrow transplantation. Psychological problems of cancer patient. Basic information about the most frequent cancer: Breast cancer and other gynecological cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal tumors, cancer of kidney and bladder. Malignant hematological diseases.
Literature
Hematologie :přehled maligních hematologických nemocí. Edited by Zdeněk Adam - Marta Krejčí - Jiří Vorlíček. 2. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2008. 390 s., X. ISBN 978-80-247-2502. info
ADAM, Zdeněk, Jiří VORLÍČEK and J. VANÍČEK. Diagnostické a léčebné postupy u maligních chorob. Druhé, aktualizované a doplněné vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2004. 648 pp. ISBN 80-247-0896-5. info
ADAM, Zdeněk and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Obecná onkologie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005. 442 pp. ISBN 80-210-3574. info
Assessment methods
Credit and oral exam
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
General note: vhodné pro studenty zdravovědné specializace učitelství na 1. stupni ZŠ.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 14 hodin.