PATOLOGIE GASTROENTERICHE ONCOLOGICHE E CHIRURGICHEModule APPLIED TECHNICAL AND DIETETIC SCIENCES
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: AGOSTINO MILLUZZOExpected Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this course, students will be able to
identify mechanisms underlying genesis and progression of cancers and
how they can be targeted by nutrition; recognize nutritional
requirements of oncological patients and provide them with nutritional
advice.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons
Required Prerequisites
Propedeuticity of teachings as established by the CdS
Attendance of Lessons
Mandatory
Detailed Course Content
1. Nutrition and cancer
2. Obesity, diabetes, and cancer
3. Protein malnutrition in cancer: causes, consequences, and management;
4. Nutritional management of patients with cancer
5. Prevention and nutritional management of esophageal and stomach diseases (including gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastritis)
6. Nutritional management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), diverticular disease, irritable bowel syndrome;
7. Prevention and nutritional management of chronic liver disease;
8. Nutritional management of the patient undergoing bariatric surgery.
2. Obesity, diabetes, and cancer
3. Protein malnutrition in cancer: causes, consequences, and management;
4. Nutritional management of patients with cancer
5. Prevention and nutritional management of esophageal and stomach diseases (including gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastritis)
6. Nutritional management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), diverticular disease, irritable bowel syndrome;
7. Prevention and nutritional management of chronic liver disease;
8. Nutritional management of the patient undergoing bariatric surgery.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nutrition and cancer | |
| 2 | Obesity, diabetes, and cancer | |
| 3 | Protein malnutrition in cancer: causes, consequences, and management; | |
| 4 | Nutritional management of the patient with oncological diseases | |
| 5 | Prevention and nutritional management of esophageal and stomach diseases (including gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastritis) | |
| 6 | Prevenzione e gestione nutrizionale delle patologie esofagee e dello stomaco (inclusa malattia da reflusso gastroesofageo, gastrite) | |
| 7 | Prevention and nutritional management of chronic liver disease; | |
| 8 | Nutritional management of the patient undergoing bariatric surgery |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral evaluation
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Nutritional therapy of the patient with irritable bowel disease
Nutritional approach in cancer patients
Nutritional management of patients treated with bariatric surgery
Nutritional approach in cancer patients
Nutritional management of patients treated with bariatric surgery