Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

1. Basic radiobiology; radiobiology applied to radiation oncology (radiation sensitivity and its biological basis; dose fractionation and others parameters influencing dose/effect relationships; from cellular to tissue radiation sensitivity to radiation pathology; radiobiology of malignant tumors; principles of clinical radiobiology; biological effects of the combination of surgery and chemotherapy with radiotherapy);
2. Clinical implications in radiation oncology of the methods of tumor classification (TNM system, others); of the general concepts of epidemiology, natural history, staging and multimodal treatment;
3. Radiotherapy as mainly locoregional treatment (the concept of "target"); introduction to radiotherapy techniques and machines;
4. Aims of radiation treatment and cost/benefit ratio in clinic (radical, palliative, symptomatic treatments); criteria to choose the indications to radiotherapy in the different phases of the natural history of the malignancies;
5. Radiation oncology role in the multidisciplinary treatment of tumors;
6. Indications and results of radiotherapy, alone or in combination with other treatment modalities, for malignant tumors, and particularly for those:
- of the breast
- of the lung;
- of the colon;
- of the upper GI tract, liver and pancreas;
- of the brain;
- of the head and neck;
- of bladder and prostate;
- of the uterus;
- of the testicle;
- of the lymphatic system.