Hector Izquierdo Acuna
With the participation of a group of specialists, and the delivery of conferences on the subject, the Roberto Rodríguez General Teaching Hospital, in the city of Morón, Ciego de Avila, was the propitious setting to develop the Second Provincial Oncology Symposium.
The event, which was sponsored by the Avilanian Chapter of the Cuban Oncology Society, was attended by all the members of the organization of the Antonio Luaces Iraola and Roberto Rodríguez hospitals, commented the president of the Scientific Council of that hospital, Dr.C. Luis Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez.
Likewise, he mentioned that the interventions were directed towards the search for cardinal themes of the specialty, during which aspects of the quality of the services were discussed, and the evaluation of a new questionnaire to evaluate the process of death in terminal patients.
The use of Anthracyclines, which are currently the most widely used cytostatics in the specialty, as well as cardiotoxicity as an element to prevent in the treatment of cancer patients, also generated numerous interventions, DrC pointed out. Rodriguez Sanchez.