Boyum - Pulmonary Pathology: Lung Cancer
Instructor(s): Rodney Boyum
Session Objectives:
- Pathologic features of the major primary lung tumors (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and neuroendocrine tumors – including small cell carcinoma)
- Etiology of lung cancer; identify differences between smoking related cancers and those not associated with smoking
- Syndromes, including paraneoplastic syndromes, associated with lung cancer
- Major molecular drivers of lung cancer
- 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 Slides - Boyum - lung cancer.pptx Download Boyum - lung cancer.pptx
Session Recording
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