Senior Capstone Seminar: Biology of Cancer

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This seminar requires students to draw on nearly all of their training as biology majors to understand the disease of cancer in great detail. Topics include the genetic/cellular basis for the disease, physiological effects of tumor progression and metastasis, environmental influences, treatment modalities, and the personal, familial and societal impacts of the disease. Students read extensively for the course and summarize and formally present current research in the field in an effort to develop their scientific communication skills. Numerous short reviews of research articles are also produced by students.