LAHORE - The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC) in collaboration with the Pakistan Society of Clinical Oncology, recently organized a meeting on “Head and Neck Cancer” under the title: Advancing Cancer Care. The topic of this educational programme was: “Translating principles into practice”.
The insightful symposium held on 24 & 25 April, 2015 at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore was fully supported by an unrestricted educational grant from MERCK SERONO.
On 17 & 18th of April, 2015, the SKMCH also conducted the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Pathology – Pakistan Division. This symposium was held in collaboration with the Histopathology & Cytology Society of Pakistan, to discuss “Advances in Pathology”. The venue of this informative session was the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore.
A Research Abstract from Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Karachi was approved for oral presentation at Annual Head & Neck Cancer Meeting of Shaukut Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) & Pakistan Society of Oncology (PSO).
On 18th April 2015 a Poster Presentation was held at the Annual meeting of SKMCH & International Academy of Pathology (IAP), at the PC Hotel, Lahore. The title of this research was: Benign & Malignant lesions of salivary glands in Pakistan. It evaluated Six-Years Data from the largest government reference laboratory in Sindh. The presenter of this research study was Dr. Muhammad Ali Naqvi - Senior Lecturer & MDS Postgraduate trainee Oral Pathology, DIKIOHS, DUHS. The research was performed during 2 years rotation at Histopathology section of Dow Diagnostic Reference & Research Laboratory (DDRRL) as a part of a 3 year MDS program in Oral Pathology.-PR