Revista Cubana de Estomatología (Jan 2018)

V National Workshop on Oral Cancer

  • Estela de los Ángeles Gispert Abreu,
  • Gilda Lucía García Heredia,
  • Elizardo Alemán Hernández

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 54, no. 4
pp. 73 – 75

Abstract

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On January 19, 2017, the V National Oral Cancer Workshop was held, sponsored by the Cuban Society of Stomatology, with the co-sponsorship of the National Institute of Oncology and Radiology (INOR) and the National Department of Stomatology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The inaugural words were given by the MSc Dr. Gilda García Heredia, who emphasized the transcendental role of Dr. Cs. Julio César Santana Garay as the main author of the Program for the Detection of Oral Cancer (PDCB), of Cuba. The professor Dr. Cs. Santana Garay thanked in brief words the tribute that the Cuban Society of Stomatology offered him uninterrupted since 2012. Dr. C. Estela de los Angeles Gispert Abreu, held the inaugural conference entitled "International Declaration on Oral Cancer and Cuban Experience," in which she expressed arguments about why it is a public health problem and did a thorough scientific research tour of the Cuban experience in the subject, contrasting it with the current International Declaration approved by the General Assembly of the International Dental Federation in September 2015, Bangkok, Thailand, and the international panorama, highlighting the contributions of Cuba and the aspects that can be improved. Subsequently, different lectures were offered: MSc. Dr. Josefa D Miranda Tarrago, in the conference "Publications on the PDCB and oral cancer in the Cuban Journal of Stomatology", detailed the history of the PDCB initiated in 1982, recognized by the Cuban public health in 1986 and alluded to reports of its results in the Cuban Journal of Stomatology and the need to increase the contributions about its follow-up and evaluation. MSc Dra. María Rosa Salas Adams spoke on the educational clues in the prevention and control of oral cancer and highlighted the sanitary preventive value of these galleries, whose essence is paid to new teaching mechanisms provided by the new ICTs, which impacted the audience , by recognizing the value for the motivation and learning of preventive methods of oral cancer.