-: Hi everyone, I hope that you enjoyed
learning about cancers of the respiratory system last week.
This week, we'll be discussing
cancers of the digestive system.
We will cover esophageal cancer, stomach cancer,
colorectal cancer, liver cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
As always, we'll structure our discussion
around trends in cancer incidents and mortality,
cancer risk factors, and cancer prevention.
This week, the first presentations of the course are due.
For those of you who have selected this week to present,
please leave a link to your presentations
on Yellowdig and on Brightspace by Tuesday.
For those of you not presenting,
please leave at least two comments
on your classmates' presentations on Yellowdig.
As a reminder to those presenting this week,
pay particular attention to the following.
I want to see that you effectively use
your background research
to show the importance of the project
and the current state of research in the field,
on the particular cancer site,
and on the community that you've selected.
I want you to really clearly state
your three main research aims
and give an example
of a research method that you plan to use.
I also want some real-life examples
of key individuals and institutions,
with which you plan to collaborate
to accomplish your research.
And finally, I'd like you to pay attention
to the implications of your project.
Depending on what your project finds,
what might be future directions?
Do you suggest that it would be important to plan
a screening campaign for cervical cancer, for example?
Or do you think that there should be efforts made
to decrease exposure to a certain risk factor,
digging deeper into the idea of cancer prevention?
What implications might your project have
on the community that you're studying?
Additionally, we have some textbook readings
and supplementary readings
that are listed in the module below.
Your assignments this week
are also to participate in Yellowdig
and to complete the quiz at the end of the module.
As always, if you have any questions,
please reach out and let me know.
I'm happy to answer questions
or chat more about the topics from this week.
I hope you all have a great week,
and I'm looking forward to seeing your presentations.