Understanding Cancer Metastasis
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Understanding Cancer Metastasis at Coursera Overview
Duration | 6 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Cancer Metastasis at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 6 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Understanding Cancer Metastasis at Coursera Course details
- Over 500,000 people in the United States and over 8 million people worldwide are dying from cancer every year. As people live longer, the incidence of cancer is rising worldwide, and the disease is expected to strike over 20 million people annually by 2030.
- Everyone has been, or will be touched by cancer in some way during their lifetime. Thanks to years of dedication and commitment to research we?ve made enormous advances in the prevention and treatment of cancer, But there is still a lot of work to be done.
- In this course, physicians and scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine explain how cancer spreads or metastasizes. We?ll describe the major theories of metastasis and then describe the biology behind the steps in metastasis. The course also describes the major organs targeted by metastasis and describes how metastases harm the patient.
Understanding Cancer Metastasis at Coursera Curriculum
History and Overview of Metastasis
Introduction to Understanding Cancer Metastasis
Introduction to History and Overview of Metastasis
History and Overview of Metastasis
History of Metastasis Theory
Introduction to the Sequential Steps of Metastasis
History and Overview of Metastasis
Introduction to Primary Tumor Growth and Neoangiogenesis
Tumor formation: Uncontrolled cell division
The role of mutations in primary tumor formation and evolution
Neoangiogenesis: new blood vessel formation in cancer
The primary tumor microenvironment: what else affects primary tumor growth?
Primary Tumor Growth and Neoangiogenesis
EMT / Invasion / Intravasation
Introduction to EMT / Invasion / Intravasation
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition, invasion, and intravision
Local Tumor Invasion
Intravasation
Invasion and Intravasation
Introduction to Survival in the Circulation and Extravasation
Glossary of Terms
The Circulation
How cancer cells survive while in circulation
Becoming a circulating tumor cell (CTC) and evading immune detection
Homing to a new site in the body and extravasation
Survival in the Circulation and Extravasation
Dormancy and Secondary Tumor Growth
Introduction to Dormancy and Secondary Tumor Growth
Metastatic homing
Evidence for cancer dormancy
Cancer dormancy defined
Properties of dormant cancer cells
Secondary outgrowth
Dormancy and Secondary Tumor Growth
Introduction to Morbidity and Mortality
Distribution of Metastasis: Where do cancers spread?
Cancer Syndromes
Congratulations
Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Metastasis
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