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Cancer Immunotherapy: a Step Change in Cancer Treatment
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Английский
9 h
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- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on 28 февраля 2016
- Ends on 2 марта 2016
Course details
Syllabus
Over 12 million people die of cancer worldwide each year. Although treatments are improving, there is still a long way to go, and some cancers are still very difficult to treat. Consequently, there is a desperate need for new treatment approaches. Learn about the rise of immunotherapy The idea of harnessing your immune system to target tumours has been around for a long time, but in the last five years remarkable clinical trials results have led to immunotherapy being heralded as a potential turning point in the fight against cancer. This free online course will teach you about the amazing job your immune system does in keeping you healthy, and how we can exploit it to fight cancer. Understand how immunotherapy is starting to tackle cancer We will explain why cancer presents the immune system with a particularly difficult challenge, and how cancer cells can escape immune attack. You will learn how new immunotherapy strategies are transforming cancer treatment work, and why they are regarded as such a key breakthrough. Finally, we will look ahead to new developments in cancer immunotherapy, which might provide the basis of tomorrow’s cancer treatments. You can see what the educators and their colleagues in the University of Birmingham’s Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre are up to by following their Twitter feed @CIIC_UoB. You can also find out more on the CIIC website.
Prerequisite
None
Instructors
- Ben Willcox
- Heather Long
Platform
FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)
Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.
Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.
FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.
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