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    The Symptoms:

    • This is a case report series based on real patients, built around a graphic backbone.
    • Much of the communication is visual. The graphic forms an image of the teaching points.
    • The characters are based on needs and more than one case will unfold with each episode.
    • The teaching points are folded into the graphics, the images, references, reports and the quiz.
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    How to use the Symptoms:

    • Follow the evolution of the cases (Enjoy Jesse Bochner's great graphics)
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    Teaching objective:

    The learner is introduced to one of the side effects of chemotherapy (Oxaliplatin) and to appreciate the origins for the CEA antigen test.


    In this episode:

    • George begins his chemotherapy with FOLFOx which includes a day-hospital infusion followed by a portable infusion pump for 5FU at home.
    • An interview with Dr. Phil Gold the discoverer of CEA

     

    How to use this module:

    • Read the graphic novel strip
    • Listen to the interview
    • Take the quiz ***
    • Checkout the references
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-Gold P, Freedman SO. Demonstration of tumor-specific antigens in human colonic carcinomata by immunological tolerance and absorption techniques. J Exp Med. 1965;121:439–62

-Jia F, Shelton TD, Lewis MR. Preparation, characterization, and biological evaluation of a streptavidin-chimeric t84.66 conjugate for antibody pretargeting. Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2007 Oct;22(5):654-64.


-Meyerhardt Jeffrey A. , M.D., M.P.H., and Mayer, Robert J. M.D. New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 352:476-487 February 3, 2005 Number 5


-Pasetto Lara Mariaet al. Oxaliplatin-related neurotoxicity: How and why? Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology 59 (2006) 159–168

 

 

 

 

 

 

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