Sexta e última sessão da segunda edição do “Tratar o cancro por tu”, uma iniciativa do Ipatimup, realizada na Universidade de Évora sobre o cancro do cólon.

Experts:

Fátima Carneiro,  Senior Researcher at Ipatimup/i3S, Director of the Pathological Anatomy service at Hospital de São João and professor at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade do Porto

José Carlos Machado, Specialist in Molecular Genetics, Vice-President of Ipatimup, Professor of Medicine at the University of Porto, and Coordinator of the Cancer

Manuel Sobrinho Simões, Pathologist, Founder, and President of Ipatimup

Rui Dinis, Oncologist, Regional Coordinator for Oncological Diseases, and Director of the Regional Oncology Service at the Hospital do Espírito Santo de Évora

Participations:

João Valente Nabais,Vice-headmaster of the University of Évora for University Life Policies and Community Relations

Jorge Serafim, Actor

Moderation:

Miguel Soares, Antena 1 Journalist

Tiago Alves, Antena 1 Journalist

“In statements to Diário do Sul, José Carlos Machado emphasized that “this Ipatimup initiative aims to increase people’s health literacy, specifically regarding cancer,” ensuring that “we literally want people to start talking about cancer on a first-name basis.””

– Diário do Sul article on the sixth session of “Tratar o cancro por tu”

“I would like to introduce something I rarely see included in the debate: we know that screening criteria are often, as Dr. Dinis mentioned, based on economic considerations. […] There’s a question about how much we value life or, in this case, death. But I never see the fact discussed that a colonoscopy is not just an exam for early detection. A colonoscopy allows the primary detection. Therefore, the benefit in terms of people’s lives and their individual struggles is enormous.”

– Nuno Marcos, in testimony during the sixth session of “Tratar o cancro por tu”