Conveners
Tuesday morning - Poster Presentations - Screen3
- Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
Paola Carolina Guerrero-Leon
(Ministry of Health, Peru)
20/06/2017, 10:30
Poster
Cancer is a health problem in the world and Peru, because of the increased incidence, from 154.5 (estimated GLOBOCAN 2012) to 216.9 (Lima Cancer Registry 2010-2012). Since 2012, the “National Plan for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Improved Access for Oncological Services in Peru” (Plan Esperanza)of Health Ministry offers full coverage of treatment cost by the Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS)....
Evangelina Figueroa-Medina
(Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (México))
20/06/2017, 10:35
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
**Purpose**: To evaluate the outcome of radiotherapy for nonmelanoma skin cancer of Mexican population in terms of the radiation therapy modality received and local relapse-free survival. To show the cost-effectiveness benefit of kV therapy compared to linac based electron therapy.**Introduction**: Nowadays non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most frequent malignant disease. Radiotherapy...
Miriam Joy Calaguas
(Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center-Department of Radiotherapy, Philippines)
20/06/2017, 10:40
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
Introduction
Asia is a heterogeneous and diverse continent having a population of 4.2 billion at present. The total incidence of cancer cases in Asia is 6.7 million which is almost 48% of the global incidence. In the 2015 statistics from a survey done by the Federation of Asian Organizations in Radiation Oncology (FARO), approximately 1.6 million cancer patients per year are being treated...
