Tzortzis Vassilios, Vlachostergios Panagiotis

(Medical Students who select the lesson are obliged to attend 11 out of 13 lectures)

Face-to-face with presentations from an amphitheater and with clinical exercises on models and patients except in special cases (pandemic etc.) Use of electronic media using Microsoft software(PowerPoint) through which the courses are delivered, e- class, Analysis of clinical cases in digital format using specialized software.

• Power point presentations
• E-class
• E-book access
• Pubmed access
• Posting online information and announcements about the course and other educational activities
• Students and teachers communications by e-mail

The course material aims to introduce students to the scientific field of Genitourinary Oncology and consists the basis on which the student will acquire fundamental knowledge in the relevant subject. 

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: 

• Understand the etiopathogenesis, molecular mechanisms of development and progression of neoplasms of the urogenital
• Describe primary and secondary prevention methods of urogenital neoplasms
• Be familiar with the modern diagnostic and the rapeutic treatment of neoplasms of the urogenital organs ,adapted to the new data and the newest therapeutic developments.

• Carcinogenesisandbiologicalbehaviorofurogenitalneoplasms
• Epidemiology,etiologyofprostate cancer
• Masspopulationscreeninginprostate cancer
• Cancermarkersandtheirapplicationinclinicalpractice
• Modern imaging methods in the diagnosis, staging and monitoring of treatment in prostatecancer
• Therapeuticapproachestoclinicallylocalizedprostatecancer
• Treatmentofadvancedprostatecancer
• Treatment of hormone-refractoryprostate cancer
• Modernimagingmethodsforthediagnosisandstagingofrenalparenchymaltumors
• Prognosticfactorsandhistopathologyofrenalcancer
• Surgicaltreatmentofkidneycancer
• Treatmentofmetastaticcancer
• Epidemiology,etiologyandpreventionofbladdercancer
• Diagnosticmethodsofbladdercancer
• Prognosticfactorsofbladdercancer
• Treatmentofnon-muscle invasivebladdertumors
• Treatmentofmuscle-infiltratingtumorsofthebladder
• Epidemiology,etiologyandriskfactorsoftesticulartumors
• Histopathologyoftesticulartumors
• Diagnosticapproachandstagingoftesticulartumors
• Predictorsoftesticulartumors
• Treatmentoftesticulartumors
• Epidemiology,etiologyofpenilecancer
• Therapeutictreatmentofpeniletumors

Suggested Bibliography:

1. Urological Cancers (e-book)
2. Urological Cancers in Clinical Practice (e-book)