El VI Congreso Internacional de Oncología para Estudiantes de la Universidad de Navarra congrega a más de 300 alumnos
The VI International Student Oncology congress brings together more than 300 students at the University of Navarra
The conference, organized entirely by students, focuses this year on Cancer Prevention.
More than 300 university students inaugurate the VI International Student Oncology congress (COE), which will take place at the University of Navarra until March 6.
The meeting, organized entirely by students of the academic center, will be structured in lectures at position by experts, oral communications and seminars. The latter will focus on issues such as the interpretation of mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer, the role of nursing professionals in the prevention of the disease, the early diagnosis of lung and colon cancer and prevention through vaccines, among other topics.
The participants come from the academic center and other universities such as Seville, Complutense de Madrid, Basque Country, Leon, Zaragoza, Valencia, Extremadura and Lisbon.
They will be addressed by experts such as Jesús Prieto Valtueña, who will address the prevention of tumors related to liver cancer and inflammation; Ignacio Blanco, from high school Catalán de Oncología, who will discuss the opportunity offered by Genetics in the search for new methods to prevent cancer; and Miguel Ángel Martínez, who will examine the relationship between per diem expenses and cancer.
1,500 attendees in 5 years
For Belén Pérez Pevida, a medical student and member of the committee of congress, the initiative "allows students to learn first-hand how to carry out a professional meeting , being present from the moment a topic is proposed until the speakers, parallel activities, etc. are arranged". In the student's opinion, the character of multidisciplinary is another strong point of the quotation: "We bring together doctors, pharmacists, biologists, nurses, biochemists, etc., around a topic that we approach from all these perspectives".
Salvador Martín Algarra, professor organizer and manager of this activity, adds that in its six years of trajectory the COE has brought together at the University of Navarra more than 1,500 students and 80 specialists from four continents. "In addition, a hundred papers and posters prepared by students have been presented, confirming that this activity is one of the most important student congresses in the country," concludes the manager.
Interview with two students from committee of congress on 98.3 Radio:
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