The purpose of the course is to provide the basis of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases and the molecular alterations underlying them. The student must be able to integrate the acquired notions with the available therapies in order to choose the best personalized therapeutic options.
In addition, the student needs to acquire the basis to collaborate with pathologist in the clinical management of patients through the learning of indications, advantages and limitations of various methods of analysis (cytological, histological and molecular) and the understanding of a cytological, histological, molecular and autopsy report