Early detection through screening could identify 85% of early stage lung tumors''.
''La detección precoz mediante 'screening' permitiría identificar el 85% de los tumores de pulmón en estadio inicial''
Early detection through screening could identify 85% of early stage lung tumors''.
The University of Navarra's Student Oncology congress , organized entirely by students, will focus this year on cancer and the future.
According to Dr. Javier Zulueta, a specialist in Pneumology at the Clínica Universidad de NavarraAccording to Dr. Javier Zulueta, specialist in Pneumology at the University of Navarra, "if the use of screening as a method of early detection were extended, 85% of lung tumors would be detected in the initial stages, when they have a much greater chance of being cured". This will be one of the topics discussed at the VIII International Oncology congress for Students of the University of Navarra, which will be held from tomorrow, Thursday, March 1, until Saturday, March 3, at the academic center.
The meeting, organized entirely by students, is aimed at students of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy or Science, from national and foreign centers, and has by goal address both new developments in the treatment of the disease and the most cutting-edge research being carried out.
In this edition the congress will be attended by Dr. Claudia Henschke, from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, a world authority in the study of early diagnosis in lung cancer for the last 20 years; and her colleague, Dr. David Yankelevitz. lecture Dr. Javier Martín, head of Oncology at Son Dureta Hospital (Balearic Islands), will also give a talk on the evolution in the treatment of sarcomas with targeted therapies, a tool that has broadened the horizon of survival and disease control in this pathology.
Dr. Emilio Alba, former president of the Spanish Society of Oncology and one of the leading experts in breast cancer in Spain, will give the lecture lecture "Cancer in Spain in 2015", in which he will outline the outlook for the disease in the coming years, estimated cure rates, new treatments, etc.
Students "against cancer"
For Dr. Salvador Martín Algarra -professor of -, the theme chosen for this year, cancer and the future, "has been a commitment by the students themselves to share with their peers the major areas of action in epidemiology. Salvador Martín Algarra -professor manager of congress-, the theme chosen for this year, cancer and future, "has been a bet of the students themselves to share with their peers the major areas of action in cancer epidemiology, detection by screening, diagnostic and therapeutic novelties presented by leading experts who could participate in any professional congress ".
In this same sense, the student María Vitoria Sola, member of the organizing committee , highlights the experience of being able to set up and participate in a meeting of this category while still students: "We are already in the VIII edition of the COE and this year we have increased the issue of international speakers. In addition, the congress represents an opportunity for students of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Nursing to meet and address the challenges of a disease that we will have to face in our professional future".
- contact of the student coordinator of the activity: María Vitoria Sola: 669 974 717