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On February 28, Patients’ School will be held in Nizhny Novgorod

21.02.2014

Topic of the School: Breast cancer: cure is possible

Venue: Nizhny Novgorod Regional Cancer Center, conference hall.
12:45 REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
13:00 OPENING OF PATIENTS’ SCHOOL
Welcoming remarks: Vitaliy Mikhailovich Terehov, cand. med. sci., Chief Oncologist of the Ministry of Health of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Chief Physician of Nizhny Novgorod Regional Cancer Center
13:10 MEDICAL UNIT OF PATIENTS’ SCHOOL
Speaker: Vladimir Evgenievich Kallistov, cand. med. sci., senior researcher at Department of General Oncology of the N.N.Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Answers to oral and written questions – 15 min.
13:55 PSYCHOLOGICAL UNIT OF PATIENTS’ SCHOOL
Speaker: Irina Valentinovna Morkovkina, cand. med. sci., coordinator of social programs of IPM Movement Against Cancer, medical psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, member of the Board of Trustees of the FSBI “P.A. Hertsen Moscow Research Institute of Oncology”
Answers to oral and written questions – 15 min.
14:40 ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL UNIT OF PATIENTS’ SCHOOL
Speaker: Nikolay Petrovich Dronov, Chairman of the Executive Committee IPM Movement Against Cancer, Member of the Council of public organizations for the protection of patients' rights at Russian Ministry og Health.
Answers to oral and written questions – 15 мин.
15:25 CLOSING OF PATIENTS’ SCHOOL
Registration for participation by phone: +7(910) 894-42-50, +7 (910) 870-63-66.
Aim of the project:
Participants of Patients’ Schools have the opportunity to learn from practitioners and well-known experts about the specifics of malignant tumors and latest clinically proven and scientifically recognized methods of cancer treatment.
During the Patients’ School sessions, lawyers help patients to understand their rights with regard to the guaranteed provision of specialized medical care.
Equally important unit Patients’ School is the participation of a psychologist, who advice patients how to withstand and fight the disease.
During the School, patients and their relatives have an opportunity to ask questions to experts and get competent answers.