King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH) is holding an educational symposium about all kinds of cancer. The symposium will be held under the sponsorship of Princess Alia'a Bint Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz on the April 22 at Jeddah Hilton Hotel's Al-Qasser hall. The symposium aims to promote the latest advancements in the treatment of cancer. “Cancer has no respect for age or gender,” said Professor Ezz Eldien Ibrahim, head of the symposium and chief of the tumors department and the research center at KFSH. “It has been known since 1,500 BC, and its mystery resembles that of life.” “The goal of the symposium is to educate, not intimidate,” added Ibrahim. “It is better for people to protect themselves than not knowing the disease that can kill them from within.” He added that one major issue is that patients do not fear the disease itself as much as they fear the treatment. “They should face it by doing periodical checks that can help them to avoid it, or at least to discover it in its early stages, so that chances for healing would be higher than they would be if the disease were discovered in later stages,” he said. Two physicians will be speaking about alternative medicine and religious supplication at the symposium. Two patients who survived from cancer will also talk about their personal experiences in fighting the disease. There will also be an open discussion that Ibrahim will run. __
