Cancer is an abnormal
growth of cells. The cancerous cells can invade and destroy surrounding healthy
tissue, including organs. This course aims to identify the major types of
cancer worldwide; list and describe the hallmarks of cancer; differentiate the
contribution of genes to the risk and growth of cancer; define metastasis and
identify the major steps in the metastatic process; describe the role of
imaging and screening, diagnosis, staging, and treatments of cancer.