ILOs
- understand the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer and other common intestinal malignancies
- appreciate impact of colorectal cancer on population, understand risk factors and precursors
- impact of tumour staging on prognosis and treatment and how this may affect therapeutic options
- Here are the basic statistics regarding colorectal carcinoma…
- What types of tumours do we find in the colon?
- Diagram showing us the adenoma-carcinoma sequence…
- What are the risk factors for colorectal carcinoma?
- What is a colorectal polyp?
- Outline the pathological classification of colorectal adenoma…
- Look at a picture of a resected colon cancer and how it is processed…
- Now a histological specimen showing us the invasive carcinoma…
- More histology showing us colonic adenocarcinoma…
- Look at malignant glands and a desmoplastic stroma on histology…
- Outline the TNM 8 staging of colorectal carcinoma…
- Here’s how your prognosis varies with your staging…
- How do we improve early detection of bowel cancer?