COURSE DESCRIPTION
Biology and Therapy of Cancer is an advanced level course for PhD, MD, PharmD students, postdoctoral trainees, and faculty. This is a comprehensive cancer biology and therapy course with lectures on basic mechanisms of cancer development and key features of cancer therapies. The lectures are presented by basic/translational science and clinical faculty.
Topics covered include cancer epidemiology, carcinogenesis, pathogenesis, angiogenesis, tumor-stromal interactions, invasion and metastasis, defective cell cycle regulation and signaling pathways in cancer, cancer metabolism, cancer stem cells, cancer genomes, cancer epigenetics, and experimental systems including animal models and tumor imaging. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in clinical oncology involving both conventional and experimental strategies are covered. In addition, lectures on good research practice, as well as assays, methods, instrumentation, biostatistics and bioinformatics that are relevant to cancer are included.
TEXT AND COURSE MATERIALS
The course materials are from textbooks, reference books, research publications, research or clinical work, or other sources as appropriate. There are no required textbooks. However, The Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg (Garland Science Publishers, 2nd edition, 2014) is a textbook that students may find helpful in understanding the course lectures. Some contents of this textbook may also be used in some lectures.
COURSE COPYRIGHT
This course is delivered online. All course content is the intellectual property of the instructor(s). Access is provided only to those who register for the course. Individuals enrolled in the course may use the original content for their learning and completion of course requirements. Individuals preparing for a professional or certification examination, or to assist in fulfilling responsibilities at a job or internship may also register for this course. Course recordings may not be reproduced, shared with anyone, or uploaded to other online environments. Video and audio recordings of the course material are not permitted. Downloading, copying, photographing or distributing them is prohibited. Those registered are expected to maintain the security of their internet accounts used to access recorded course materials.
Instructions for course completion
(1) Upon registration for the course (with your full name, university name and status (i.e., PhD, MD, PharmD, postdoctoral trainee, medical resident, intern, staff, faculty, or unaffiliated), you will receive access to a password-protected site containing all the lecture modules. This site will contain a transcript created in your name and a list of lectures to be completed for Part 1 and Part 2 of the course. Please do not share the password with anyone.
(2) The course will be available online for 52 weeks. Upon watching each lecture video from start to end, without fast-forwarding, you will click the button “Complete”.
(3) Upon completion of all the lectures for Part 1, you can take the exams for Part 1 online. Alternately, you can complete both Parts I and 2 and then take the exams, one exam at a time. There are three levels of exams – Level 1: Basic Level; Level 2: Intermediate Level; and Level 3: Advanced Level, for Part 1 and 2 of the course. Each level, will have 50 multiple choice questions to answer online in 60 minutes for each Part of the course.
(4) After you successfully complete the exams with 80% or more correct answers, you will receive a certificate of course completion from the consortium in your transcript and email. Please print and save this certificate. You can attempt the exams until you complete the course.
(5) Only those registrants who take the exams at the consortium website will receive a certificate of course completion from the consortium.
(6) Exam questions will be uploaded soon.
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