The Department of Clinical Oncology aims to function as one of the leading cancer centres in South East Asia by applying innovative diagnostic techniques, delivery of state of the art treatment, and conducting clinical and laboratory research, as well as teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. In the current system-based integrated curriculum, we are involved in introducing basic clinical and communication skills to Year 1 & 2 students with workshops and lectures. In addition, selected study modules covering interesting oncology specific topics are offered to Year 3 students. The Oncology Module in Year 5 aims at reinforcing general medical and surgical knowledge and skills in an integrated manner, and allows students to acquire ability in handling oncology-related problems as a non-specialist. A significant part of palliative medicine teaching is also delivered in the Module to enable students identifying patients’ physical and psychological needs. For postgraduate study, interested parties could refer to Graduate School web page for details regarding admission( http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gss/). Application forms could be downloaded from the web.

Research fields as follows:

• Cancer epigenetic, DNA methylation
• Cancer genetics
• Tumor suppressor genes
• Cancer pathogenesis
• Epstein-Barr virus pathogenesis
• Nutrition
• Drug testing
• Tumor markers
• Circulating markers
• Wnt signaling pathway in colorectal cancer

Techniques

• Advances in immunology histochemistry
• In-situ hybridization
• Quantitative PCR
• Cell line

For further information, emails could be sent to Prof. Qian Tao qtao@clo.cuhk.edu.hk, Prof. Cesar Wong cesar@clo.cuhk.edu.hk or Department administrator gigilui@cuhk.edu.hk.