2013_02_27_MED_congreso-oncologia
The IX International Oncology congress will bring together 250 students in Pamplona.
Future health professionals and experts at subject will discuss prevention, the role of NGOs and the future of social networks.
Poster of the congress of Oncology for Students.
PHOTO: COE 2013
PHOTO: COE 2013
More than 250 students will participate in the IX International Student Oncology congress (COE), which begins tomorrow, Thursday 28, at the University of Navarra. For the ninth consecutive year, students of the School of Medicine of the academic center have organized this meeting, which will address the disease of cancer from a perspective multidisciplinary and interfacultative, under the slogan "Cancer, people, science".
The congress, which will run until March 2, will be structured into conferences, oral communications and seminars. The latter will delve into issues such as the role of nursing professionals in the prevention of disease and in the last days of life, the importance of NGOs in oncology, the future of social networks in this area of medicine or the pathology of breast prostheses.
The event will feature experts from the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN), the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante or the high school Catalán de Oncología, who will analyze the transnational research in cancer, challenges and secrets of radiology in oncological diagnosis and oncological nursing.
Non-governmental mobilization in melanoma
Doctors Salvador Martín Algarra and Óscar Fernández, both from the department of Oncology of the CUN; Tomeu Massuti, head of Medical Oncology at the University Hospital of Alicante; Dolores Lozano, from Anatomy Pathology of the CUN; or Paz Fernández, from the high school Catalan Oncology will attend. Valery Guild, president of AIM at Melanoma Foundation (California), will also participate with a presentation at discussion paper on"Non-governmental mobilization in melanoma".
The inauguration of congress, which will take place tomorrow, Thursday, February 28 at 12:00 noon at auditorium of the Libraries building, will be held at position by Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, President of the University of Navarra.
The participants, students of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Cencias, come from the academic center and other universities such as Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Cadiz and Bilbao, among others.
For Gianna Vargas, medical student and member of committee of congress,"it is a great opportunity for university students to acquire an extracurricular academic training and, above all, financial aid to commit ourselves as future professionals in the fight against cancer".