Conference goals and cancer care in Brazil

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Dr Carla Ismael - Presidente Sociedad Franco Brasilera de Oncología, Brasil

Dr Ismael speaks with ecancertv at the IX French-Brazilian Oncology Congress about the conference, its goals, and how education opportunities in conferences such as this can help inform cancer care across the globe.

She highlights melanoma and breast cancer as two indications that have seen improvements in the past, and whose prognosis can be improved through advances shared at the congress.

We are in the ninth edition of the French-Brazilian Cancer Congress. Every year we are getting stronger, stronger in publication and scientific papers that people send to us - this year we have 600 and something papers. Stronger in oncologists and people that come for the conference, this year we have 1,200 people reading script in the conference. And I can say that the French-Brazilian Congress has a very good place in the Brazil scenario, in the Brazil cancer scenario. The people come because we have a very good scientific programme, very good speakers, international and national speakers, opinion leaders in each area in the world and in Brazil. We decided in this conference to make a different thing - on the last day we would do a special session about a personalised vision of medicine. We invited physicians, interpreters, patients to talk for fifteen minutes what they really think about something about a special time.

What I want to say in this conference is not really a scientific topic. I want to speak about my personal vision in cancer patients and I will talk especially for two cancers especially, the melanoma patients and breast cancer patients. What I want to say in this session is that in more than thirty years of practice of oncology, clinical oncology, I’m seeing a comportment, a behaviour, a special behaviour, in a special kind of disease. I want to tell the people that will be in the audience that would be physicians, patients, normal people, what I think that will help for when you have a cancer, a melanoma or a breast cancer, how to be cured besides the medications that we have, many medications, new ones, old ones, is a kind of changing of behaviour to be safe.