Molecular Basis of cancer

This course will cover the oncogenes, the proto-oncogenes and the tumor suppressor genes and the gene mutations causes cancer. This course will cover the apoptosis mechanism, cell signaling in cancer cells and how hormones, diet and viruses relate to cancer causes. Specific topics in cancer like genomic instability, chromosomal instability in human cancer and how environmental, hereditary factors co-operate in cancer and cancer epigenetics. Finally, this course will emphasize selected types of cancer in which a molecular basis elucidated and recent experimental strategies that reveal basic mechanism underlying the cancer.