3-3-0

This course will review the broad subject of cancer development and treatment. In particular it will focus on taking concepts seen in cell biology (Bio110) and applying them to cancer cells. Amoung the topics reviewed will be: cancer types and staging, mutation rates and environmental contributions to genetic changes, oncogenes and tumor suppressors, cell proliferation/death balance, modification of cancer cells phenotypes and metastases formation, role of the immune system in the prevention of cancer spreading, strategies of cure, and a review of the body's physiological responses to several forms of cancer.

Prerequisites: BIO110 Introductory Cell and Molecular Biology and BIO226 Animal Physiology I