Teaching oncology to medical students is a must: the Egyptian NCI step on the road.

摘要

Pavlidis et al. [1] recently published their experience in teaching oncology to undergraduate medical students over a 6-year-period which involved a 5-day intense summer course that was organized by the European School of Oncology. They highlighted that a limited perception of oncology as a separate entity in the medical school curriculum is associated with a poorer understanding of various aspects of cancer management [1, 2].In Egypt, although cancer is now the second leading cause of death [3], oncology teaching in medical schools is fragmented and is studied within the core of other topics, such as surgery and pathology. This diversity leads to a non-unified approach; and medical students graduate knowing little about the management of cancer patients.