Skills you'll gain

There are 6 modules in this course

Everyone has been, or will be touched by cancer in some way during their lifetime. Thanks to years of dedication and commitment to research we’ve made enormous advances in the prevention and treatment of cancer, But there is still a lot of work to be done. In this course, physicians and scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine explain how cancer spreads or metastasizes. We’ll describe the major theories of metastasis and then describe the biology behind the steps in metastasis. The course also describes the major organs targeted by metastasis and describes how metastases harm the patient.

Primary Tumor Growth and Neoangiogenesis

EMT / Invasion / Intravasation

Survival in the Circulation and Extravasation

Dormancy and Secondary Tumor Growth

Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Metastasis

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