Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (SBCO) and Brazilian Cancer Foundation are organizing the upcoming event: VIII World Congress of Surgical Oncology, VIII Brazilian Congress of Surgical Oncology and V Gastrinca , which will be held from December 3rd to 5th, 2009, at Windsor Barra Hotel & Conventions - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Simultaneously, it will take place the I Symposium of Nursing Surgical Oncology, promoted by Brazilian Society of Nursing Oncology.
The main aim of the event is to present the Surgical Oncology state-of-the-art and its futures perspectives, achieving knowledge improvement and exchanging ideas and experiences.
The event will present many prominent doctors and nurses from all over the country and abroad.
Conference themes include:
- Surgical Oncology as an specialty;
- The Oncologic Surgeon as a prognostic factor;
- Target drugs and Oncology;
- New image methods in Oncology;
- The role of the multidisciplinary team in treatment results;
- Advances in the care of patients with cancer;
- New techniques in Radio Therapy;
- The impact of Oncology treatments pre and post surgery;
- The role of Oncologic Surgeon in scientific research;
- Biomarkers and personalized treatment;
- Genetics and Cancer;
- Robotic surgery in Oncology; and
- Minimally invasive surgery in Oncology.
Target audiences are:
- Surgical Oncologists
- General Surgeons
- Clinical Oncologists
- Radiation Oncologists
- Oncology and Surgical Nurses
- And other specialties