Saturday 3 September 2022 – 16:52
DUBAI, September 3 / WAM / The activities at the third annual conference of the Emirates Cancer Society, which was organized by the society under the patronage and presence of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, and in collaboration with Emirates Medical Association, with the participation of more than a thousand specialists and researchers in the field of oncology in the country, concluded today in Dubai. It is from 20 countries around the world.
In the final sessions of the two-day conference, the participants recommended the establishment of a specialized working group in the country dealing with the palliative care of cancer patients, as it is an essential axis to complete the healing of cancer patients, support the post-treatment recovery process, how to can live with it and deal with pain, underlines the importance of palliative care as one of the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the role of This type of treatment has the ability to relieve pain and symptoms of cancer.
They emphasized that this specialized group would raise awareness of the palliative specialization and encourage doctors to study this delicate and important specialty, as there is currently no working group specialized in this type of treatment in the country, which is considered one of the inaccessible subtleties. .
The participants of the conference also discussed the need to establish a working group operating under the umbrella of the Emirates Cancer Society and the Emirates Medical Association specializing in breast cancer, to raise awareness of early breast cancer screening and educate doctors on methods of diagnosing breasts. cancer in the early stages by listening to the symptoms presented by patients, as well as promoting methods for diagnosing breast cancer Modern treatment in this area, considering that breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer globally and locally.
Prof. Humaid bin Harmal Al Shamsi, Chairman of the Emirates Oncology Society and Chairman of the Conference, emphasized that there is an urgent need locally and regionally to double the number of studies dealing with the study of cancer, although these studies and research benefit patients and treat complex cases, and also contribute to enriching the database of cancer patients, underlines the importance of establishing a working group specialized in medical cancer research and specialized cancer research in the country according to its types separately.
Wam / Halima Al Shamsi / Islam Al Hussein
