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Cytology education in the 21st century: living in the past or crossing the Rubicon?
| Resumo: | [Excerpt] Teaching cytology is a permanent challenge for those professionals involved in training in cytology, mostly due to the complex and subjective characteristics of working with variable aspects of interpretation of morphologic alterations. Sometimes morphologic criteria are not enough to provide all diagnostic and prognostic information that clinicians need to manage patients. Moreover, considering the progress in molecular biology, it is urgently necessary to revise the old paradigms of screening and reporting of cytologic findings. This letter intends to open a discussion of some of the most pertinent and recent debates regarding cytology training and practice. Cytologists became players of an ambitious and multifaceted objective, to detect molecular alterations involved with cancer progression, identify etiologic agents and participate in the decision on therapeutic options. For these reasons, to teach cytology now demands a new approach that fulfills all the new exigencies that have emerged from science development. (1) [...] |
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| Autores principais: | Longatto, Adhemar |
| Outros Autores: | Schmitt, Fernando C. |
| Assunto: | Clinical laboratory techniques Cytodiagnosis Female Humans Male Medical laboratory science Vaginal smears Certification Cytotechnology Educational activities Papanicolaou test |
| Ano: | 2010 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | outro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | [Excerpt] Teaching cytology is a permanent challenge for those professionals involved in training in cytology, mostly due to the complex and subjective characteristics of working with variable aspects of interpretation of morphologic alterations. Sometimes morphologic criteria are not enough to provide all diagnostic and prognostic information that clinicians need to manage patients. Moreover, considering the progress in molecular biology, it is urgently necessary to revise the old paradigms of screening and reporting of cytologic findings. This letter intends to open a discussion of some of the most pertinent and recent debates regarding cytology training and practice. Cytologists became players of an ambitious and multifaceted objective, to detect molecular alterations involved with cancer progression, identify etiologic agents and participate in the decision on therapeutic options. For these reasons, to teach cytology now demands a new approach that fulfills all the new exigencies that have emerged from science development. (1) [...] |
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