Unit MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO ONCO - HEMATOLOGY

Course
Human feeding and nutrition sciences
Study-unit Code
A000794
Location
PERUGIA
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Paolo Sportoletti
Teachers
  • Paolo Sportoletti
Hours
  • 35 ore - Paolo Sportoletti
CFU
5
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
MED/50
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
- Lifestyles and nutrition in cancer prevention
- Chemotherapy and proper nutrition
- Nutrition in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation
- The link between genes, nutrition and cancer
- Anemia in nutritional deficiencies and in tumors
- Natural substances and treatment of tumors and leukemia
Reference texts
Specific Pubmed referencies will be indicated during the course of the lesson
Educational objectives
The aim of the course is to contribute to the training of graduates with specific knowledge in the field of problems related to the relationship between onco-haematological diseases and nutrition.

The training activity is aimed at the study of cancer pathologies more directly related to nutrition, evaluating the influence that nutrition can have on the onset, in the prevention and therapy of malignant neoplasias and related complications. The course will also allow the student to acquire some basic technical notions on specific laboratory diagnostic methods in solid and blood tumors.
Prerequisites
To be able to understand and face the course, the student must have passed with huge success the exam preparatory described in the regulation on the degree course.
Teaching methods
Face-to-face
Other information
N/A
Learning verification modality
The exam includes a written exam consisting of one or more open questions aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge, understanding and synthesis achieved by the student as well as to verify the acquisition of method, of language and exposure.

The written exam is divided into several thematic areas that characterize the teaching with lasting about 60 min.
Extended program
- Lifestyles and nutrition in cancer prevention
- Chemotherapy and proper nutrition
- Nutrition in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation
- The link between genes, nutrition and cancer
- Anemia in nutritional deficiencies and in tumors
- Natural substances and treatment of tumors and leukemia
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