Competency information
Details
Plan and implement, using aetiology and clinical presentation information, a diagnostic process to identify common cancers and their prognosis.
Essential
- Skin malignancy
- Breast malignancy
- Hepatobilary malignancy
- Gastrointestinal malignancy
- Genitourinary malignancy
- Respiratory malignancy
- Gynaecological malignancy
- Male reproductive malignancy
- Endocrine
Desirable
- Haemopoietic malignancy
- Neuromuscular malignancy
- Ear, nose and throat malignancy
- Osteoarticular malignancy
- Vascular malignancy
- Neurological malignancy.
Considerations
- The whole patient pathway and appreciation of the role Histopathology plays in improving outcomes for patients and the importance of providing an early and accurate diagnosis to enable treatment/resection decisions to be made.
- Biology of normal and abnormal cell growth.
- Homeostasis tumour growth, angiogenesis, apotosis and metastasis.
- Role of oncogenes in cancer development and molecular basis of oncogenesis.
- Mechanisms of clinical and surgical treatments for cancer.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Identify and confirm the clinical presentation of a range of common cancers. |