Course description
The course will provide to the students the basic principles of personalized cancer medicine (PCM). It will focus on the need to combine new diagnostic tools such as omics, functional tests, molecular pathology and imaging for tailor-made treatment to stratified or even individual patients. The need for development of multidisciplinary teams - to manage translational research - and core infrastructures will be emphasized. Participants will also learn about early clinical trials and biomarker discovery
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
No prerequisite courses, or equivalent, demanded for this course.
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s doctoral project (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
Course director
Tom Erkers and Päivi Östling
Course syllabus
K7F2919
Department
Department of Oncology-Pathology
Doctoral programme
Tumour Biology and Oncology (FoTO)
Type of course
**Other course
Keywords
precision cancer medicine, technology, diagnostics, treatment