LF:MNVO091p Nutrition in oncology - Course Information
MNVO091p Nutrition in oncology
Faculty of Medicineautumn 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. MUDr. Miroslav Tomíška, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Štěpán Tuček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. MUDr. Miroslav Tomíška, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MVDr. Halina Matějová
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Wed 20. 9. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 27. 9. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 4. 10. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 11. 10. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 18. 10. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 25. 10. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 1. 11. 15:00–16:40 A20/207, Wed 8. 11. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 15. 11. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 22. 11. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 29. 11. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 6. 12. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 13. 12. 14:00–15:40 A21/107, Wed 20. 12. 14:00–15:40 A21/107
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Nutrition therapist for child nutrition and Nutrition therapist for adult nutrition (programme LF, N-SZ)
- Dietetian (programme LF, N-VDD)
- Course objectives
- Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to acquire knowledge of clinical nutrition needed to provide specialized nutritional care in adults with cancer.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to use information about basic principles of nutrition and carcinogenesis interaction in patient education and cancer prevention. The student will know the anticancer treatment, its types according to the treatment method, the principles of nutritional care, undesirable effects of anticancer treatment and their influence, nutritional measures during or after the treatment of cancer diseases, the most common dietary adjustments in anticancer treatment.
- Syllabus
- Cancer and its treatment, basic terms. Remission, relapse, progression. Curative, symptomatic, palliative treatment. Prognosis of cancer. Statistics of cancer treatment results. Examination methods in oncology. Biopsy, ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET, tumor markers. Laboratory examinations, normal and pathological values of basic examinations. Laboratory examination of nutritional parameters. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Targeted biological treatment. Side effects of cancer treatment. Nausea and vomiting. Diarrhea. Gastrointestinal mucositis. Reduction of hematopoiesis. Infectious complications. Nutritional problems in cancer treatment. Examination of nutritional status of cancer patient Psychological problems in cancer. Anorexia and cachexia syndrome Principles of nutritional support in tumor anorexia and cachexia Pharmacological treatment of tumor cachexia. Oral nutritional intervention in cancer. Dietary recommendations in cancer. Sipping. Special preparations for sipping. Nutritional support in perioperative period, in chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Nutritional support in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Parenteral nutritional support in oncology. Probe enteral nutrition in cancer patients. Gastrostomy and jejunostomy for nutrition. Enteral nutrition preparations for cancer patients Nutritional support in advanced cancer. Nutrition in palliative care.
- Literature
- required literature
- TOMÍŠKA, Miroslav. Výživa onkologických pacientů. První vydání. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2018, 743 stran. ISBN 9788020440648. info
- not specified
- VORLÍČEK, Jiří, Jitka ABRAHÁMOVÁ and Hilda VORLÍČKOVÁ. Klinická onkologie pro sestry. 2., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2012, 448 s. ISBN 9788024737423. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk, Marta KREJČÍ, Jiří VORLÍČEK, Zuzana ADAMOVÁ, Jaroslav BAČOVSKÝ, Viera BAJČIOVÁ, Otakar BEDNAŘÍK, Jan BLATNÝ, Tomáš BÜCHLER, Igor CRHA, Aleš ČERMÁK, Hana DOLEŽELOVÁ, Ladislav DUŠEK, Karel DVOŘÁK, Pavel FABIAN, Vuk FAIT, Antonín FASSMANN, Jindřich FIALA, Lukáš FIALA, Jindřich FÍNEK, Lenka FORETOVÁ, Radim GROSMAN, Jana HALÁMKOVÁ, Miroslav HEŘMAN, Martin HUSER, Ludmila HYNKOVÁ, Richard CHALOUPKA, Libuše KALVODOVÁ, Igor KISS, Iva KOCMANOVÁ, Martin KOMENDA, Jana KOPTÍKOVÁ, Zdeněk KOŘÍSTEK, Renata KOUKALOVÁ, Zdeněk KRÁL, Eva LÉTALOVÁ, Milan MACHÁLKA, Josef MALIŠ, Miloslava MATÝŠKOVÁ, Jiří MAYER, Vojtěch MORNSTEIN, Mojmír MOULIS, Jan MUŽÍK, Miroslav MYSLIVEČEK, Milan NAVRÁTIL, Tomáš NEBESKÝ, Miroslav NEČAS, Rudolf NENUTIL, Jiří NEUBAUER, Martin ONDRÁK, Zdeněk PAVELKA, Miroslav PENKA, Vojtěch PEŘINA, Katarína PETRÁKOVÁ, Petr POKORNÝ, Luděk POUR, Jiří PRÁŠEK, Zdeněk RÁČIL, Martin REPKO, Zdeněk ŘEHÁK, Jiří SCHOVANEC, Ondřej SLÁMA, Petr SMÍŠEK, Jan STARÝ, Petr SZTURZ, Marek SVOBODA, Vlastimil ŠČUDLA, Roman ŠEFR, Pavel ŠEVČÍK, Pavel ŠLAMPA, Lenka ŠMARDOVÁ, Jiří ŠNAJDAUF, Jaroslav ŠTĚRBA, Michal TICHÝ, Jiří TOMÁŠEK, Miroslav TOMIŠKA, Marcela TOMÍŠKOVÁ, Vít UNZEITIG, Jiří VANÍČEK, Vladimír VAŠKŮ, Rostislav VYZULA, Barbora WEINBERGEROVÁ, Marie ZÍTKOVÁ and Karel ZITTERBART. Obecná onkologie (General oncology). První vydání. Praha: Galén, 2011, 394 pp. ISBN 978-80-7262-715-8. URL info
- ADAM, Zdeněk, Marta KREJČÍ and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Hematologie : přehled maligních hematologických nemocí. 2., dopl. a zcela přeprac. Praha: Grada, 2008, 390 s.,x. ISBN 9788024725024. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Hematologie : pro praktické lékaře. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2007, 314 s. ISBN 9788072624539. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Obecná onkologie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 442 pp. ISBN 80-210-3574. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk, Jiří VORLÍČEK and Jana KOPTÍKOVÁ. Obecná onkologie a podpůrná léčba. Praha Publishing: Grada, 2003, 788 pp. ISBN 80-247-0677-6. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk, Jiří VORLÍČEK and Jiří VANÍČEK. Diagnostické a léčebné postupy u maligních chorob. Praha: Grada, 2002, 604 pp. ISBN 80-7169-792-3. info
- ADAM, Zdeněk and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Speciální onkologie. Brno: MU Brno, 2002, 542 pp. ISBN 80-210-2826-2. info
- Hematologie. Edited by Miroslav Penka. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2001, 201 s. ISBN 8024700239. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- written exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2023, recent)
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