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Cancer Therapeutics (CINS0002)

Key information

Faculty
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Teaching department
Cancer Institute
Credit value
30
Restrictions
This module is restricted to MSc Cancer students
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This module helps you to understand the mechanisms of different cancer therapies, and how these relate to the underlying cancer biology. You will begin the module with workshops to develop your understanding of evidence based medicine and your skills for critical evaluation of clinical trials. You will then learn about the mechanisms and application of standard therapies (such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery), and of targeted therapies representing personalised cancer medicine, and the evidence supporting these. You will review the hallmarks of cancer, as defined by Hanahan and Weinberg, and will investigate how different therapies have been designed to target these hallmark features of cancer cells.

This module will consist of a mixture of lectures, interactive tutorials, discussion workshops and self-directed learning. You will also attend research-in-progress seminars from PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Topics in this module include:

  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Non-Targeted Cancer Therapies
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� Sustained Proliferative Signalling
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� Evasion of Growth Suppression
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� Resistance to Cell Death
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� Defective DNA Repair
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� the Deregulation of Cellular Energetics
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� the Induction of Angiogenesis
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� the Enabling of Replicative Immortality
  • Therapies Targeting:鈥� the Activation of Invasion and Metastasis

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Term 1 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study
In person
Methods of assessment
50% In-class activity
50% Coursework
Mark scheme
Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year
0
Module leader
Dr Sarah Koushyar
Who to contact for more information
ci.pgeducation@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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Important information

The catalogue has been updated with key information about the modules that will run during the 2024/25 academic session. Current and prospective students can browse through the catalogue to consider possible module choices for the coming year.

Please note,听information in the catalogue is听subject to change as teaching and assessment arrangements for 2024/25 may need to be adjusted in line with the University's Feedback and Assessment principles and operating model.

Centrally managed exam durations will be provided on students' individual exam timetables. Arrangements for locally managed exams and in-class activity will be confirmed by the teaching department for the module.

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