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Informations for Students


Topics of the part on hematology and oncology in the main lecture internal medicine: 
  • Physiology and pathophysiology of the hematopoietic system; the hierarchy of stem cells; 
  • the role of cytokines in cell proliferation and differentiation; 
  • function of mature hematopoietic cells; differentiation pathways; 
  • morphology of normal and pathological hematopoietic cells; 
  • clonal evolution and the development of malignancy; 
  • aplastic anemia; clinics and therapy of aplastic anemia; 
  • iron-deficiency anemia; 
  • vitamin B12 deficiency; 
  • hemolytic anemias; 
  • paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria; 
  • hemoglobinopathies; 
  • antibody-mediated hemolysis; 
  • clinics and supportve therapy of bone marrow failure; 
  • clinical considerations in transfusion-therapy; therapy of neutropenic infections; 
  • classification, clinics and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplasia;
  • chronic myeloid leukemia and other chronic myeloproliferative disorders;
  • classification; biology; clinical picture and treatment of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas; 
  • mantle cell lymphoma; 
  • follicular lymphoma; 
  • marginal zone lymphoma; 
  • immunocytoma; 
  • multiple myeloma; 
  • chronic lymphocytic leukemia; 
  • diffuse large cell lymphoma and other high-grade malignant lymphomas; 
  • acute lymphocytoic leukemia; 
  • Burkitt's-NHL; 
  • Hodgkin's disease; 
  • T cell neoplasia and mycosis fungoides; 
  • angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy; 
  • malignant melanoma; 
  • high-dose chemotherapy and blood stem cell transplantation; 
  • physiology and pathology of hemostasis; 
  • acquired and hereditary disorders of coagulation; 
  • hemophilia; 
  • disseminated intravascular coagulation; 
  • diagnostics and therapy of thrombosis; 
  • antithrombin III; 
  • protein S; 
  • protein C; 
  • APC resistance; 
  • colon and rectum cancer 
  • lung cancer 
  • testis cancer 


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