On October 17, 2022, within the framework of the internal academic exchange and on the basis of the cooperation agreement, a lecture was held by the Head of the Department of General Pathology of FSBEI HE KSMU of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Kazan), a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Professor S.V. Boichuk on the topic “Pathophysiology of Tumor Growth” for 3rd-year students of the IMI. The lecture was organized with the participation of the International Medical Institute and Department of Pathophysiology of our university. Sergey Vasilievich Boichuk is a world-renowned scientist in the field of studying problems of carcinogenesis, multiple drug resistance of tumors to chemotherapy, targeted therapy of malignant growths. Students were presented with up-to-date knowledge about fundamental carcinogenesis, molecular basis of tumor tolerance formation to chemotherapeutic drugs, interesting clinical examples, as well as the basic principles currently used in treatment of malignant neoplasms.
