Boyum - Pulmonary Pathology: Lung Cancer

Instructor(s): Rodney Boyum

Session Objectives:

  1. Pathologic features of the major primary lung tumors (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and neuroendocrine tumors – including small cell carcinoma)
  2. Etiology of lung cancer; identify differences between smoking related cancers and those not associated with smoking
  3. Syndromes, including paraneoplastic syndromes, associated with lung cancer
  4. Major molecular drivers of lung cancer
  5. Metastatic cancer in the lung

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Session Materials/Instructions:

Pre-reading

  • (required) Pathology: The Big Picture (Kemp)
    • Chapter 13, pages 226-228 (Pulmonary Neoplasms)
  • (highly recommended) Robbins & Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease; 10th Edition
    • Chapter 15, pages 715-724 (Tumors)
  • (review, recommended) View Chapter 9 (9.8): Lung Cancer in Pathoma. https://www.pathoma.com/login1.1 Links to an external site.
  • The first 8 slides of the PowerPoint presentation (Boyum – lung cancer, linked below) as a histology review.

Presentation SlidesBoyum - lung cancer.pptx Download Boyum - lung cancer.pptx  

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