After completing this module the student will have the foundation for understanding the key techniques for the analysis of new biomarkers in oncology and their potential clinical applications. In addition, the student will know the utility and the goal of pathological methodologies in oncology.
Prerequisites
Propedeuticity approved by degree course
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Further information
At the end of the course, the Students are given copy of the didactic material presented during the lectures
Type of Assessment
Written test
Course program
3. Diagnostic methodologies in Pathology
- Autopsy and its applications
- Histology (basic notions on sampling and preparation, indications of the different types of samplings)
- Frozen sections (basic notions on indications and limits of the test)
- Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy (basic notions on preparation and applications of the tests)
- Immunohistochemistry (basic notions on preparation and applications of the tests)
Molecular biology (basic notions on preparation and applications of the tests)