Oncology
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Presentations
Tier 1comprehensive depth
Conditions
Tier 1comprehensive depth
Neutropenic sepsis🔒
Side effects of systemic cancer therapy
Tier 2understand these
Cerebral neoplasms🔒Endocrine syndromes associated with malignancy🔒1 examHormone secreting tumours🔒Paraneoplastic syndromes🔒Broad pharmacological principles and complications of chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, immunotherapy, molecularly targeted therapy, and radiotherapy🔒3 examConcept of clinical trials🔒Indication and complications of bone marrow transplant🔒CT of head, chest, abdomen, and pelvis🔒Endobronchial ultrasound🔒Faecal occult blood testing🔒1 examFine needle aspiration and excisional biopsy🔒Genetic testing, such as BRCA🔒2 examHistopathology🔒Mammography or breast ultrasound🔒1 examMRI and PET scans🔒Nuclear bone scan🔒Papanicolaou test (Pap smear)🔒Pre-chemotherapy screening investigations🔒Tumour markers🔒7 examBronchoscopy🔒1 examAssessment of performance status, such as ECOG performance status and Karnofsky performance status scale🔒1 examEnd-of-life decision making🔒Immune toxicity🔒22 examOncology in different patient age groups, such as elderly and adolescent patients🔒1 exam
Purpose and principles of cancer staging🔒Rationale, accuracy, benefits, and harms of screening tests🔒Body fluid analysis, including cytology🔒
Chest X-ray
Liver function tests
Endoscopy
Palliative care