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Sep 17, 2024
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RDTP 102B - Methodologies I Credits: 2 Semesters Offered: Spring Campus/Sites Offered: Charleston Offering Note: No additional information available.
Description This course is designed to provide the students an introduction to cancer treatment and management. Before entering full-time clinical rotations, the students will become familiar with a wide range of treatment procedures, common prescription doses for various cancer types, and educating patients on treatment side effects.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Examine surgical, medical, and radiation oncology in terms of tumor eradication and palliation.
- Given a tumor type and location, determine the typical radiation treatment procedure including: simulation, total dose, daily dose, and field arrangement.
- Specify the anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, lymph drainage, and metastasis of various tumors in relation to radiation treatment planning.
- Summarize the tumor classification systems and how classification, stage, and grade of tumors relate to radiation treatment planning, goals, and outcomes.
- Predict critical structures involved in a treatment plan.
- Articulate the tissue tolerance dose for each critical structure involved in a treatment plan.
- Demonstrate the design of treatment portals for a given tumor.
- Relate radiation treatment side effects for patient education and management.
- Identify types of treatment accessory devices.
- Explain treatments for the various oncological emergencies including spinal cord compression and superior vena cava syndrome.
Prerequisite: None Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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