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Diagnosis of Breast Cancer - course outline
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On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the nomenclature of benign and malignant breast disease
- Be aware of current methods of diagnosis and their background
- Understand the current view of the genetic basis of breast cancer
Module 1: Introduction
- Normal breast development, anatomy and histology
- Epidemiology, risk factors and carcinogenesis of breast cancer
- Methods of detection of breast cancer including clinical signs and asymptomatic detection
Modules 2 and 3: Pathology of Breast Cancer
- Handling of breast specimens, histological techniques
- Benign breast disease
- Breast cancer types and nomenclature
- Metastasis
Module 4. Diagnostic Techniques
Diagnostic techniques including imaging, Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), Wide bore needle biopsies (WBN) and the surgical approach to breast cancer
Module 5. Specialist Diagnostic Techniques I
- Specialist diagnostic techniques concentrating on immunohistochemical methods
- To include current procedures to detect HER-2, oestrogen and progesterone receptors
- Future diagnostic techniques to include tissue microarrays
Module 6. Specialist Diagnostic Techniques II
- Molecular pathology of breast cancer
- To concentrate on assessment of p53 status and BRCA1/2 genes
- Methodology to include in-situ hybridisation, PCR and DNA sequencing
- Future diagnostic techniques to include proteomics and molecular profiling
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