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On September 25, Patients’ School will be held in Saint-Petersburg

01.10.2013

Topic: "Nutrition for cancer patients after surgery, during chemotherapy and rehabilitation"

Venue: N.N. Petrov Cancer Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Health, conference hall

14:30 REGISTRATION OF SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS

15:00 OPENING OF PATIENTS' SCHOOL
Marina Borisovna Rumiantseva, chairman of the Council of St. Petersburg regional branch of IPM Movement Against Cancer.

15:10 MEDICAL UNIT OF PATIENTS' SCHOOL
Speaker: Tatiana Yurievna Semiglazova, Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Medical Oncology of the N.N. Petrov Cancer Research Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology of North-West State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, cand. med. sci.
Answers to oral and written questions– 15 min.

16:10 SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT
Speaker: Margarita Valentinovna Vagaitseva, Executive director of the Center for Social and Psychological Assistance "Second Wind". "Ways to maintain emotional health during the treatment of cancer".
Answers to oral and written questions – 15 min.

17:00 CLOSING PATIENTS' SCHOOL
Registration for participation in the School by phone: +7(905) 289-50-46, +7 (951) 655-28-04.

Purpose of the project:
Participants of Patients' Schools, their relatives and friends will be allowed to ask questions to experts and get competent answers. An equally important feature of Patients' School is participation of a psychologist who tells the patient how not to be broken down, to overcome and fight the disease.