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Inside Cancer:
How genes influence cancer development
Course Outline – September 2016
Activity 1
Week 1 – What is
cancer?
Week 2 – The genetics of
cancer
Week 3 – The roads to
cancer (part 1)
Week 4 – The roads to
cancer (part 2)
Week 5 - Understanding
and treating cancer
Week 6 – Researching
cancer
© 2016 University of Bath Activity 2
Activity 3
What is cancer?
Why do you get cancer?
Survival of the nastiest –
understanding cell division
What are genes?
Why do DNA mutations
matter?
Epigenetics
Behaviour of rogue cells
Chemical signals
Death-defying cancer cells
Angiogenesis
Metastasis
Other roads to cancer
Diagnostics and treatment
planning
Conventional treatments
Challenges of conventional
therapy
Models used in the
laboratory
Drug Discovery
Where are we going?