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The two-day conference on thyroid cancer, organized by the Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) on the theme "Current Standards and New Prospects," was completed yesterday.
Conference participants discussed the reasons for the marked increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer over the last three years, the number of people infected being 51 in 2015, while about 110 recorded in 2018, an increase of more than 100%.
Participants agreed to develop an implementation plan for the early thyroid cancer screening program in cooperation with the Qatar health authorities.
The Thyroid Cancer Conference brought together 1,200 specialists from several Arab and foreign countries such as Austria, Oman, Kuwait, as well as many authorities from Qatar, including the Ministry of Health. Hamad Medical Corporation and Qatar. Society of the doctor.
The conference is inscribed in QCS 'willingness to keep abad of global medical developments in order to reduce the spread of the disease in Qatar and provide all the resources and support needed to combat them.
Dr. Osama al-Homsi, president of the National Center for Cancer and Research in Hematology and Oncology at HMC, said the conference had debated the crucial issue of increasing the incidence of cancer of the thyroid, which was taken at a very important time, as Qatar seeks to intensify its efforts in the health sector to
control the incidence of cancer in general.
In remarks to reporters, he said Qatar's health authorities had provided all methods for diagnosis and treatment of surgical and pharmacological treatments, adding that efforts were being made to reduce cancer, either through prevention or the treatment. (QNA)
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