Exploring Cancer Medicines

University of Leeds via FutureLearn

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FutureLearn
Pricing

Free Online Course (Audit)
Languages

English
Certificate

$44.00 Certificate Available
Duration & workload

2 weeks long, 2 hours a week
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Overview

This course will introduce you to the topic of cancer chemotherapy, and how the development of effective medications for the treatment of cancer remains a significant challenge to scientists.

You will research the use and development of cancer medicines, focusing on chemotherapy. In addition, through an exploration of how science is communicated to the general public, you will also look at the skills you need to become an effective science writer.

This course is part of the Going to University collection which has been specifically designed for students at schools and colleges. They provide a taster of undergraduate study at the University of Leeds and help students to decide which subject to study at university.

Taught by

Richard Foster and Paul Taylor

Charts

#2 in Subjects / Disease & Disorders / Cancer

Reviews

4.7 rating, based on 19 Class Central reviews

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Sonal P Patel @sonal

Another great introductory class from the University of Leeds. This is targeted toward students wanting to learn medicinal chemistry and study the development of new drugs and targeted therapies for cancer. It is still a great introduction for anyone...

Another great introductory class from the University of Leeds.

This is targeted toward students wanting to learn medicinal chemistry and study the development of new drugs and targeted therapies for cancer.

It is still a great introduction for anyone to learn about the world of cancer medicine --and the future of medicine in the field toward more targeted treatment.

Cancer is a very difficult disease to defeat and radical new approaches to treatment are desperately required.

This class will introduce one to molecular-targeted therapeutics. This is the future of cancer treatment, where much research that leads to targeted therapies is needed.

A great class to start thinking and learning, for one's personal knowledge, future career, or for general curiosity -- to understand the past, present, and future of cancer medicine.
Ilekhuoba Osazee Osgood

This is a great course to take, the lectures are well presented and easy to understand. I have learned so much on the different types of cancer medicine, the personalised cancer treatment, the immunotherapy, the epigenetics, and many more
Anonymous

It is a great course!! It is easy to follow the contents and the information is very useful.
The structure of the course is very helpful and motivate you to study.
Activities are interesting because you have to search information in other pages or do small investigations.
It can help you to take important decisions like the studies at the university.
It is a great opportunity to discover what interests you have and what do you want to do in the future.
I hope people continue following these courses in order to learn about different topics. There is a variety of contents that are very useful.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

I am a community health nurse working in a cancer screening program. I know nothing about the cancer drugs that are used for treatment. This course was excellent for providing basics and for pointing me in the right direction and motivating me to learn more.
Christina Round

Christina Round is taking this course right now, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

As a cancer patient about to start chemotherapy and targeted therapies I wanted to understand more about the treatments I am about to start. I found it very interesting and pitched about right for what I need to know.
Anonymous

As a student of class 11 ...i got to know much more about it...and i learned many new things here.........i m very glad that i am a part of it and......really recommend if antyone wants to gain extra knowledge about any thing then this is a best platform for that...............thanks for this amazing experience and keep going
Anonymous

As a Ph.D research scholar in oncology, it was great to explore cancer medicine course , it has given me a better platform to start my research.
I hope I will receive my certificate of achievement for complete the second week and looking forward to continue to study other courses at the futurelearn
Anonymous

Very interesting and well organized, using videos and readings as well as short quizzes and exercises. I only wish it could have been longer and talked more about the various treatments that are in use now, as well as those coming up in the future.
Anonymous

I thourghly enjoyed this quick,fun and enjoyable course. The videos are very engaging and are explained well by the teacher. It is nice and short but does give you a helpful taster into cancer treatment.
Anonymous

I have found the course very informative. It has given me ideas of possible next steps I could take with my career
Anonymous

The course was fun and I think this course accomplish its goal. Students want to learn more about cancer chemotherapy.
Anonymous

A great course with many open-ended questions for discussion. Certainly makes me curious about cancer medicine.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

A good all round overview of cancer and cancer medicines. As an older person, not looking to return to University, I found the course easy to follow, with plenty of additional references, both from the educators and from other students. I would recommend this course, along with the other on-line courses in the series, to anyone hoping to study chemistry, medicine or medicinal chemistry.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

It is quite helpful. It's an eye opener to a lot of cancer types, researches and tremendous progress for the possible cure for cancer. It also gives a sigh of relief to those people suffering from cancer and hope of a possible cure for their type of cancer.
Anonymous

Anonymous is taking this course right now.

The course makes suitable sense, engaging, informative and compelling. For having concerns in exploring cancers medicine, it's very okay for others like me to take their own benefits as well from this particular course.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

This is a very informative course with easy to follow information. It is a good mix of discussion, further research, and them providing the information. Would recommend.
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