PATH 300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 140 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Pathology
• Course: PATH 300
• Professor: Edith Zorychta

Document Summary

Pathology is a basic science that involves research on disease to understand the fundamentals so that we can treat or prevent diseases. Pathology is also a branch of medicine that involves diagnosis of disease. In this course, we will be looking mainly at human diseases in north america and will relate basic science to symptoms and therapy. Emphasis on prevention because prevention is key and many diseases are lifestyle- related. Statistics do not memorize but understand the concept. In canada, the two biggest killers are heart disease and cancer. The leading cause of death in underdeveloped countries is infectious disease. The leading cause of death in partially developed countries is heart disease because they do not implement the same healthy lifestyle methods that canadians do. Heart disease is the biggest killer globally, followed by infectious diseases. The age distribution of global mortality is different: child mortality is higher in underdeveloped countries (africa, eastern.