Innovative Tumor Therapies

This document is written in English and contains my notes from the relevant ITT lectures. By learning these I passed this course with an 8.

short and covering summary of innovative tumor therapies, a master Oncology course @ Vu Amsterdam

This is an extensive collection (52 pages) of all my notes taken during the course Innovative Tumor Therapies. The notes have been revised multiple and supplemented with figures from the lectures to provide an easy to read summary of the course. The lectures are numbered based on the order they were given in, but each lecture also has a title and the name of the lecturer to help you find the lecture you are searching for. Good luck with studying!

Lectures included: tumor metabolism as target of therapy, molecular imaging & therapy, synthetic lethal combinations in cancer therapy, phosphoproteomics, pharmacokinetics/pharmacogenomics in therapeutic response & toxicity, cancer gene therapy & virotherapy, antiangiogenic therapy, innovative therapies in hematology

Lectures included: signal transduction as target of therapy, radiation oncology, pediatric cancer therapy, surgery & prostate cancer, targeted therapy for NSCLC, antibody-based therapy, epigenetic therapy

Lectures included: conventional tumor therapy, head & neck cancer, stem cell therapy, gastrointestinal tumor therapy, principles of drug resistance, glioma therapy, RNA-based therapy & exosome targeting, preclinical drug development, fine-tuning cancer therapy (case: breast cancer), pharmacokinetics, radiation & molecular-targeted agents