By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • know the circumstances in which cancer is discovered
  • understand the stages and methods of cancer diagnosis and how they are organized over time
  • understand how the disease is announced to the patient
  • understand the challenges of diagnosis to then ensure the best therapeutic management

Description

Only a precise diagnosis makes it possible to choose the most appropriate treatment. This course will explain to you why this general principle is crucial when it comes to cancers.

Cancers, or malignant tumors, correspond to diseases that have common characteristics, but also many differences. For all these cancers, occurring in patients who themselves have unique characteristics, there are currently a large number of possible treatments. With an accurate diagnosis, the most suitable treatment will be selected, which will be called “Personalized treatment”.

Characterize precisely a cancer before any treatment is a major issue which involves clinical physicians, specialists in radiological and tissue imaging and cancer biology.

Our mission is to provide you with global vision of the main stages of cancer diagnosis.