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Cancer strikes individuals, affects families and causes economic hardship. The burden of cancer will rise globally in coming years due to a growing, aging world population. This open course is designed for people who may be unfamiliar with science but are interested in developing a sound understanding of cancer and how it is diagnosed, treated, prevented and studied.
课程大纲
- Anatomy of a cell
- DNA, genes and mutations
- Solid tumors
- Childhood cancer
- Genomics
- Epigenetics
- Imaging
- Radiation
- Chemotherapy
- Targeted therapy
- Immune therapy
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Diet
- Chronic infections
- Heredity and cancer
- Epidemiology and population science research
- Clinical trials
- Correlative research
教师
- Michael Caligiuri - College of Medicine
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Coursera是一家数字公司，提供由位于加利福尼亚州山景城的计算机教师Andrew Ng和达芙妮科勒斯坦福大学创建的大型开放式在线课程。
Coursera与顶尖大学和组织合作，在线提供一些课程，并提供许多科目的课程，包括：物理，工程，人文，医学，生物学，社会科学，数学，商业，计算机科学，数字营销，数据科学 和其他科目。
Very informative on the basics of cancer biology and treatment. If you already know about cell biology most of this course will be easy.
Very informative on the basics of cancer biology and treatment. If you already know about cell biology most of this course will be easy.
This was a very interesting course and well put together I enjoyed the lessons and the variety of information about the existing types of cancer.
I took this course, because my mother was just diagnosed with Colon Cancer. Although this news was not easy I just want to be more knowledgeable about this "disease" and educate myself a little. Thank you.
I appreciate that this course covers such a wide variety of topics, but I would love to see more than just prostate cancer examined in further depth in an independent course. I think the first instructor in this course does the best job of breaking down complex concepts into more comprehensive topics. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to expand their knowledge in how to classify cancers into carinomas, sarcomas, leukemias, and lymphomas (the four general classes caner falls into) and then how to stage them appropriately, staging of the more common types of cancer that occur, or people looking for more information about how cells interact with chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and radiotherapies.
It was a comprehensive review of the development of cancer. I only wish we had more time to go into the specific genetics of the genes related to the development of cancer.
