Conference on Oncology
Under the patronage of His Excellency the President of King Abdulaziz University, Prof. Dr. Osama bin Sadiq Tayyib, the International Cancer Conference 2013 concluded its activities on Thursday 5/3/1434 AH by presenting awareness and educational lectures to the community in its various segments, all presented in Arabic.
Three additional sessions were held, the first entitled Primary Prevention of Tumors, in which Dr. Basem Al-Bayrouti talked about food and cancer. Dr. Maha Al-Alawi touched on the relationship of infectious diseases with cancer, then Dr. Ahmed Al-Juhani mentioned the relationship of smoking with lung cancer.
The second session was on secondary prevention and early detection of tumors, where Dr. Shadi Khayyat discussed breast cancer detection, Prof. Dr. Khaled Seet discussed early detection of cervical cancer, and Prof. Dr. Mahmoud bin Shaheen Al-Ahwal addressed early detection of colorectal cancer.
The mother of the third session was about raising awareness for patients with cancer by Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi and providing psychological support for patients with cancer by Dr. Faten Al-Zabin. Dr. Fahd Al-Sulaymani from Al-Iman Cancer Society in the Kingdom spoke about the role of Al-Iman Charitable Society for caring for patients with cancer.
In the same context, the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Conference, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud bin Shaheen Al-Ahwal, announced the recommendations of the conference, which are:
1 Call for the establishment of the National Cancer Institute in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2 Demand to establish a tower and a tumor center in the university campus
3 Call for holding this international conference on tumors annually, in cooperation with the University''s Scientific Endowment
4 The urgent need for community awareness on a permanent and systematic basis when preventing primary tumors and early detection of the most common cancers
5 Establishing a national program for early detection of the most common cancers, which are breast cancer, colorectal cancer and cervical cancer
6 Close scientific cooperation with international cancer research centers
