Over a hundred healthcare professionals attended a Cancer Symposium that was held in Belize City today. The symposium is a collaboration between the Belize Cancer Society, the Belize Cancer Center Treatment in Dangriga, the Medical and Dental Association and the Ministry of Health. Its main focus today was to promote cancer awareness and preventative measures, lifestyle issues and environmental factors. 7news spoke with President, Belize Cancer Society, Laura Longsworth.
Laura Longsworth, President, Belize Cancer Society
"It's really important because we have a number of our patients, our community members who either receive treatment locally or receive treatment abroad. So we brought our health professionals together with support of our international partners and key persons to really present this state of the art management of cancer."
"The overall objective is really making sure that our health professionals understand that this is a partnership and we want to build a partnership to promote cancer awareness and preventative measures that must be taken, lifestyles issues and other environmental practice that must be address as well as understanding how to manage our patients receiving treatment for cancer."
"We have Elsworth Grant who is the founder and CEO at the treatment center in Dangriga. We also have an infection control person from Dr. Donovan from California - highly qualified, who will talk to us about managing infections because you know cancer patients when they are receiving treatment, they are proud and push and pull and the we have our own doctor Isidoro Arzu who is a radiation oncologist at the Emmy Anderson hospital who is here to talk to us again. So we are really excited and apart from that we have our own local presenters, Dr. Santos, the pathologist, the paediatrician, Dr. Sosa and other local presenters."
The month of May was celebrated as Cancer Awareness Month.
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