📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
Clinical Aspects of Neoplasia
- Define cachexia.
- Describe the clinical features of neoplasia including effects of tumor on host and cancer cachexia.
- Describe the clinical significance of paraneoplastic syndromes.
- Describe clinical syndromes with respect to their causal mechanism and major forms of underlying cancer.
Diagnosis of Cancer
- Describe morphologic, biochemical and molecular methods employed for diagnosis of cancer.
Tumor Spread
- Describe the pathways for spread of tumors like local invasion and metastasis.
Grading and Staging
- Describe grading and staging of tumors.
Tumor Immunity
- Discuss host defenses against tumors.
- Describe tumor antigens and anti-tumor effect mechanisms.
- Describe tumor surveillance and immune evasion by the tumors.
