Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments

BY
Cancer Research UK via Futurelearn

Study the science of immunotherapies, and treatments of cancer patients with the Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments online course.

Mode

Online

Duration

5 Weeks

Fees

Free

Quick Facts

particular details
Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based
Learning efforts 3 Hours Per Week

Course overview

The way cancer is treated these days is changing so with these 5 weeks of Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification especially the Nurses researching on the clinical cancer treatment can get benefited. One of the world’s leading cancer charities, Cancer Research UK has crafted the certification course along with FuTureLearn who has been appointed for providing the achievement certificates.

The Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification syllabus contains fresh content on immune therapies including concepts like CAR T cells, PARP inhibitors, checkpoint inhibitors, and more. This Healthcare and Medicine course also takes into account different quizzes, articles, and interviews of real patients to help candidates learn about the evolving treatments. 

Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments training changes the way cancer is perceived, and hence providing a new ray of hope for every patient suffering from cancer. So candidates can learn, and share their experience and knowledge acquired with the world by studying for just 3 hours a week.

The highlights

  • Course on cancer treatments
  • 5 weeks of online study
  • 3 hours of sessions held weekly
  • Learn at one’s own pace
  • Certificate of completion

Program offerings

  • 5 weeks course
  • Online course
  • 3 hours weekly sessions
  • Certificate of completion
  • Progress mapping
  • Global classroom
  • Self paced course

Course and certificate fees

Type of course

Free

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Futurelearn

Who it is for

This Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments course has been predominantly curated for research nurses of clinical cancer, and other members conducting research that can be a proven Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or validation with the council of Nursing, and Midwifery. However, this course may also be relevant for Pharmacists and medical science graduates or others associated with the Nursing profession.

Eligibility criteria

Educational Qualification

  • Candidates with an educational background in nursing and a fundamental understanding of the way the cells actually work will be preferred over others.

Work Experience

  • Often work experience is not taken into consideration for this course but again a little experience in working for cancer patients may be considered.

Certification Qualifying Details

  • If candidates want to receive the Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification by FutureLearn, they must surely look into the course materials, and then try solving the assessments.

What you will learn

Knowledge of healthcare sciences

Once done, candidates will have a proper idea about the following things:

  • Targeted cancer treatments follow a certain way, and are developed based on a certain science, and the candidates will learn about it in detail.
  • Candidates will become more confident while explaining what is targeted cancer treatments, biomarkers, and immunotherapies to the cancer patients, and even their colleagues.
  • Learners can explain the reasons behind the side effects of these targeted treatments, and how exactly it affects a patient’s life quality.
  • Every treatment including targeted treatments faces challenges and they even have future potential and candidates will be able to recognize these.

The syllabus

Week 1: An introduction to targeted cancer treatments

  • Welcome to the course
  • What have targeted cancer treatments?
  • How are targeted cancer treatments used today?
  • Biological concepts behind targeted cancer treatments
  • Summary

Week 2: Targeted cancer treatments for solid tumours

  • Welcome to week two
  • Cell communication and cancer
  • Drugs that block cell communication pathways
  • Explaining cell communication blockers to patients
  • Blocking angiogenesis
  • Introducing CDK and PARP inhibitors
  • Summary

Week 3: Targeted treatments for blood cancers

  • Welcome to week three
  • Introduction to blood cancers
  • Topic 1: Targeted treatments for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
  • Topic 2: Targeting the Bcr-Abl kinase in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
  • Topic 3: Targeted treatments for acute leukaemias, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma
  • Summary

Week 4: Immunotherapies

  • Welcome to week four
  • Using the immune system to treat cancer
  • Checkpoint inhibitors
  • Other immunotherapy strategies
  • Immunotherapy in the news: deciphering hope and hype
  • What does the future of immunotherapy look like?
  • Summary

Week 5: Current challenges and future promise

  • Welcome to week five
  • Current challenge: drug resistance
  • Current challenge: putting biomarkers into practice
  • The future of targeted cancer treatments - vaccines and viruses?
  • Summary

Admission details

For any intricate details on the process of admission, candidates can see some steps written below:

Step 1: For the first step, students should go to the official course website.

Step 2: Next, on this website candidates must search for the ‘Join course for free’ button.

Step 3: This button once clicked will take the students onto a webpage where registration details are mentioned.

Step 4: For getting admitted, candidates need a new account on FutureLearn that they have to create.

Step 5: As soon as the account is created, candidates will be given admission directly. 


Filling the form

For applying to this Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments online course, candidates have to just fill a smaller version of an application form which is also called the registration form that requires minimal personal details to be filled up. If candidates don’t wish to fill the form with their personal details they can definitely try their hands on making an account with the main credentials of Facebook or Gmail accounts. 

How it helps

The Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification benefits are:

  • Candidates will be learning from experts in this cancer field and have a strong understanding of targeted cancer treatments and immunotherapies that is essential to treat patients.
  • To enhance one’s learning experience, candidates can share knowledge and hear the different perspectives of learners worldwide.
  • This course never lacks motivation as candidates can learn how much they have progressed throughout the course by completing steps through their progress page.

Instructors

Ms Anne Croudass
Lead Research
Cancer Research UK

Ms Elaine Vickers
Instructor
Freelancer

Ph.D

FAQs

During the free course version is it possible to access the course after the stipulated time?

It is not possible to access the resources of the course after 7 weeks during the free version of this programme.

Is it necessary to pay for the course once registered?

It isn’t necessary to pay for the course once a candidate has registered.

Which institute is dedicated to making the course content?

 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is dedicated to making the content of Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments programme.

How many people have converted as students of this programme?

At least 16,500+ people have converted to students of this programme.

Do the candidates need to learn any software for this programme?

There is no provision for learning any tools or software for the Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification course. 

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