Oncologia Torácica (Fmul)

Objectives

General objectives: 1. Integration of students in a multidisciplinary oncology unit; 2. Participation in and experience of the transversal articulation of clinical and research areas (translational medicine); 3. Provide students with experience in research laboratories in the conviction that encouraging future doctors and technicians to investigate is fundamental in modern medicine. Specific objectives: 1. Increase of students' factual knowledge in terms of the various specialties in the area, mainly regarding innovation; 2. Encourage student participation in this multidisciplinary work format that is the basis of all diagnostic and therapeutic decisions (Multidisciplinary Meetings); 3. Observation and when possible participation of students in innovative techniques related to diagnosis and local therapies; 4. Encourage students to develop “self-learning skills”, which will allow them to participate in clinical or basic research projects in the future.

Syllabus

Thoracic Imaging/Nuclear Medicine: Imaging of Bronchogenic Neoplasm and Lung Metastases; Imaging Approach to the Pulmonary Nodule; Diagnosis; Examples of basic, translational, and clinical research. Interventional Pulmonology/Radio- Oncology: Bronchoscopy, Laser, Argon-plasma bronchoscopy, Cryotherapy, cryobiopsy; Photodynamic Therapy/Brachytherapy, Endobronchial Prostheses, Echoendoscopy; Introduction to Radiotherapy and Radiobiology, Conventional Lung Radiotherapy, Radiosurgery/SBRT; Radiotherapy in Oligometastasis in Lung Cancer, Radioinduced immunoncology. Oncology: Etiology and Biology: Dilemmas, Lung Cancer Epidemiology; Tobacco; Traditional view of oncological disease; New horizons of knowledge. Video-assisted and robotic thoracic surgery: Introduction to video-assisted and robotic surgery; Surgical indications, morbidity and mortality; Live surgery. Champalimaud Foundation Case Studies.