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Ideal Oncology Curriculum
  • Foreword
  • Background and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Public health
    • Population health
    • Epidemiology
    • Prevention
  • Cancer biology
    • Functional anatomy
    • Physiology
    • Pathology
    • Molecular biology
  • Patient management
    • Referral and multidisciplinary management
    • Quality of life, therapeutic ratio and resource costs
    • Uncertainty and information management
  • Diagnosis
    • Clinical examination
    • The diagnostic process
  • Treatment
    • General principles
    • Principles of surgery
    • Principles of radiotherapy
    • Principles of systemic therapy
    • Principles of palliative care
    • Follow-up and relapse
  • Communication skills
    • Psychosocial and cultural significance of cancer
    • Communication and counselling
    • Education of patients
    • Family and community support
  • Ethics and professionalism
  • Essential clinical experiences
  • Appendix
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Ideal Oncology Curriculum

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The Oncology Education Committee was disbanded in 2016 and Cancer Council Australia is no longer able to update this resource.

Please direct any enquiries to cancercontrolpolicy@cancer.org.au.

Foreword

Background and acknowledgments

Introduction

Objectives

Public health

The role of cancer in population health and illness
Cancers – epidemiology and risk factors
Prevention, screening and family risk

Cancer biology

Functional anatomy
Physiology
Pathology
Molecular biology

Patient management

Referral and multidisciplinary management
Quality of life, therapeutic ratio and resource costs
Uncertainty and information management

Diagnosis

Clinical examination
The diagnostic process

Treatment

General principles
Principles of surgery
Principles of radiotherapy
Principles of systemic therapy
Principles of palliative care
Follow-up and relapse

Communication skills

Psychosocial and cultural significance of cancer
Communication and counselling
Education of patients
Family and community support

Ethics and professionalism

Essential clinical experiences

Appendix: Oncology Education Committee members

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