Student Conference - 9th National Congress of Pharmacy Students of Serbia – “Cancer Therapy - The Challenge of Our Time”, Zlatibor, 5-8 December 2016

2016-12-09

In organization of NAPSer (National Association of Pharmacy Students of Serbia) at the 9th National Congress of Pharmacy Students of Serbia - "Treatment of cancer - The Challenge of Our Time", Zlatibor, 5-8 December 2016, Uroš Rakić, PhD, independent advisor at National cancer screening office, represents the National cancer screening office and gave a lecture on the topic to more than 300 students in the hall of the Special Hospital “Čigota” on Zlatibor.

The topic of the lecture was "Epidemiological indicators and the importance of quality data collection and visualization."

Uros Rakic, PhD, spoke about the importance of prevention of malignant diseases, pointed to the risk factors. He gave a motivational lecture why it's important to go regularly every year at least once to the doctor, even when we are not in pain - Separate the day for yourself and your health.

He also participated in the workshop "Public Health" where he demonstrate how to perform breast self-examination on a model-doll. After the demonstration, students are practicing self-examination on a model-doll.

Speakers at the conference were:

Prof. Dr. Danica Grujičić - Importance of multidisciplinary treatment of malignant brain tumors,

Prof. Dr. sc med Dusan Đurić - Specificity of clinical trials of drugs in oncology (hematology)

Dr. Predrag Štiglić - Biotechnology drugs - a modern approach to the treatment of cancer