Tzortzis Vassilios, Zachos Ioannis,  Dimitropoulos Konst., 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 indigital form at 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.

• Carcinogenesis and biological behavior of urogenital neoplasms
• Epidemiology,etiology of prostate cancer
• Mass population screening in prostate cancer
• Cancer markers and their application in clinical practice
• Modern imaging methods in the diagnosis, staging and monitoring of treatment in prostate cancer
• Therapeuticap proaches to clinically localized prostate cancer
• Treatment of advanced prostate cancer
• Treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer
• Modern imaging methods for the diagnosis and staging of renal parenchymal tumors
• Prognostic factors and histopathology of renal cancer
• Surgical treatment of kidney cancer
• Treatment of metastatic cancer
• Epidemiology,etiology and prevention of bladder cancer
• Diagnostic methods of bladder cancer
• Prognostic factors of bladder cancer
• Treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder tumors
• Treatment of muscle-infiltrating tumors of the bladder
• Epidemiology,etiology and risk factors of testicular tumors
• Histopathology of testicular tumors
• Diagnostic approach and staging of testicular tumors
• Predictors of testicular tumors
• Treatment of testicular tumors
• Epidemiology,etiology of penile cancer
• Therapeutict reatment of penile tumors

Suggested Bibliography:

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