Write a short thesis around 2000 words addressing the topic below: “Liver cancer is a disease of diverse aetiology with wide-ranging systemic consequences.”
Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Disease
End of Course Assignment
Your assignment is a short thesis around 2000 words addressing the topic below:
“Liver cancer is a disease of diverse aetiology with wide-ranging systemic consequences.”
In your thesis, you should cover the basics of liver structure and function, illustrate the cause and development of liver cancer showing the wide-ranging systemic consequences. You should also cover the clinical pathology of liver cancer as well as the steps you would take as a practitioner to diagnose the underlying cause of this disease in the laboratory. You may also extend any further reading on the treatment of liver cancer within your thesis.
General advice on writing your assignment
Planning your assignment: You could start by carrying out a literature review (using a literature database, such as PubMed) – this, however, presupposes that you are clear, at the outset, just what search terms to use. If, as is perhaps more likely, you are not sure, then it is suggested that you make an initial poster plan, listing points, or even general areas, you might cover, and this might then allow you to identify possible search terms more easily. A short document on using PubMed is posted on WebLearn (there are, of course, other databases such as Science Direct, Medscape, Web of Knowledge, etc., you can use as well as, or instead of, PubMed).
It is always advisable, when making notes from the literature, to note the details of the source reference at the same time. It is all too easy to note down phrases or whole sentences from source references, and later forgot they were directly copied, and lay yourself open to plagiarism.
This assignment will be assessed for balance, accuracy and relevance.
This coursework assignment represents 40% of overall module score.
Please aim for 80-100% mark.
