Patient
Seminar
The
Patient Seminars are educational and community-building meetings fulfilling one
of ESMO’s objectives – to disseminate
knowledge to cancer patients, their family members and caregivers, as well as
to patient groups and cancer leagues. The ultimate goal of such meetings is
that of promoting equal access to
optimal cancer treatment and care.
Why attend the Patient Seminar?
The
Patient Seminars represent an important occasion for:
- Cancer patients and families to interact
and communicate with doctors and other patients
- Oncologists to collect feedback
directly from patients
- Representatives of both the scientific and clinical world, on one side, and of
cancer leagues and patients advocacy groups, on the other, to discuss and build partnerships and work towards
constantly improving the quality of cancer care
Who can attend the Patient Seminar?
- The ESMO Patient Seminars are open to all
people who are living or working with cancer, including cancer patients and
their families, caregivers, and all people who would like to receive more
information from both a medical and general public point of view
- Attendance of the Patient Seminar is subject to pre-registration or on-site registration
- People registered for the Patient Seminar are not allowed to attend either the
scientific sessions of the event within which the Patient Seminar is organized or
the industrial exhibition
What is the format of the Patient
Seminar?
- The Patient Seminars follow a format which encourages direct interaction and communication between patients and families,
oncologists, and healthcare professionals, aiming at having discussions which
are clearly understandable to a non-scientific audience
- All parties involved have the opportunity to share their knowledge and personal
experiences of living with cancer, and discuss
the current challenges and future directions of cancer research and methods
of treatment
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