ESMO - ESO Course on Medical Oncology for Medical Students 2016

ESMO - ESO Course on Medical Oncology for Medical Students 2016 is organized by European Society for Medical Oncology and would be held during Jul 14 - 19, 2016 at University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. The targeted audience for this medical meeting basically for Oncologists.

This five-day residential course is open to fourth and fifth year medical students providing insight into all aspects of medical oncology, enabling students to get a full picture of this challenging and interesting professional field before making the choice of their specialisation.

Learning Objectives :

• To understand the basic principles of Medical Oncology
• To understand how the main tumour types are approached in the clinic from diagnosis to therapy
• To get closed to the practice of Oncology in a multidisciplinary setting
• To capture the importance of a molecular definition of tumours in the context of a modern precision Medicine

Main topics:

- A practical approach to cancer diagnosis, staging, prognosis and therapy
- Principles of medical therapy for cancer
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Gastric cancer
- Lung cancer
- Melanoma
- Ovarian cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Testicular cancer