Armenia joins Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week for the first time – The Institute of Cancer and Crisis

The Institute of Cancer and Crisis posted the following on LinkedIn:

“Armenia will join the Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week within the framework of the Make Sense Campaign 2024 for the first time!

This year, for the first time, Armenia will participate with a webinar in the awareness week organized by The European Head and Neck Society (EHNS) from September 16 to 21. The webinar aims to introduce students, residents, young doctors, and others to modern approaches to preventing, detecting, and treating head and neck tumors. Inform patients about the causes and complications. Countries such as Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, and Italy participate in the Make Sense Campaign 2024.

Speakers for the webinar include:

• Tatevik Margaryan: ‘Head and neck cancer. Psychological differences. How is it different from other cancer types?’
  Psychologist and Public Health Specialist
  Yeolyan Haematology and Oncology Centre,
  Institute of Cancer and Crisis
• Hayk Babayan: ‘Features of surgical treatment of head and neck malignant tumours’
  Maxillofacial surgeon.
  Department of Oncology of the musculoskeletal system named after S. Seinyan. NCO:
  Department of Head and Neck Surgery. National Institute of Health
• Karine Soghomonyan: ‘Approaches to drug treatment of head and neck cancer’
  Oncologist
  Department of Pharmacological Oncology. NCO:
  Chair of Oncology: National Institute of Health
• Sergo Mkhitaryan: ‘General aspects of radiation treatment of malignant tumours of the head and neck’
  Remote radiation therapy department: NCO
  Department of General Oncology. YSMU

The webinar will take place on the Zoom online platform on September 18 at 10:00.

Meeting ID: 557 352 3194
Passcode: 093396

Organisers: Global Shapers Dilijan Hub, National Institute of Health NIH, Armenia ՀՀ ԱՆ առողջապահության ազգային ինստիտուտ , National Center of Oncology, The Institute of Cancer and Crisis (ICC).”

Source: The Institute of Cancer and Crisis/LinkedIn