Newswise — The following list includes some of the McGill University experts who will be attending or presenting at the World Cancer Congress (WCC), the largest gathering of international leaders in the field of cancer, taking place in Montreal from August 27 to 30, 2012.
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and the congress hosts, McGill University, Université de Montréal and the Fondation québécoise du cancer, will bring together leading cancer specialists with the aim of finding solutions to reduce the impact of cancer on communities around the world and keeping the disease at the forefront of the global health agenda.
Cancer epidemiologyDr. Eduardo Franco James McGill Professor, Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine Director, Division of Cancer EpidemiologyInterim Chair, Department of OncologyMember, Local-Host Committee, WCCLanguages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Cancer therapeutics, personalized medicineDr. Gerald BatistDirector, McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer Professor, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research CentreAssociate Member, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & TherapeuticsDirector, Segal Cancer Centre; Director, Dept. of Oncology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General HospitalMcGill Nutrition and Food Sciences CentreLanguages: English or French
Health services and evaluation: the elderly and cancerDr. Howard BergmanChair, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of MedicineProfessor, Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine and OncologyDr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University Languages: English and French
Cancer organization, program planning and screeningDr. Antoine Loutfi Department of Surgery, Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Surgery, Royal Victoria HospitalLanguages: English and French
Cancer treatment, decision-making among the elderly, patient’s experience, influence of age and gender on the decision-making processFay J. StrohscheinDoctoral candidate, School of Nursing, Faculty of MedicineNursing clinical consultant, Jewish General HospitalLanguages: English
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