A Seminar held at UNEC: “Cancer is not Death”
The next workshop of the Project “Cancer is not Death” gained a grant of the 8th competition of the Youth Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan was held in the Faculty of Economics of UNEC.
Speaking about the significance of the project, the Faculty Dean, Associate Professor Asiman Guliyev highlighted the necessity of the youths’ awareness in this area. The initiator of the seminar at UNEC, a senior teacher of the Department of “Economy and Organization of Labor” Ismayil Ismayilov noted the importance of the projects that will deliver the ways to fight cancer to a wider audience.
The Project Manager Zerkhanim Aghayeva said people sometimes suffer from cancer just of being uninformed. And people caught the disease fall into depression and hopelessness. However, to be caught to cancer is not the end. Today, the treatment of this disease is carried out in various ways. Therefore, we want to provide the participants of the seminar with the information about reducing the risk of developing the disease and cancer related treatment.
The Doctor of the Oncology Department of the Medical University Narmin Ahmadli delivered detailed information about the causes of cancer, symptoms, circumstances that increase the risk of developing cancer, foods and harmful habits. She made a presentation of the signs of the formation of cancer in different organs of the human body. Then she spoke about the modern methods used in treatment of cancer. She said all the necessary conditions have been created for the treatment of cancer in oncology hospitals and they were supplied with modern equipment with support of Azerbaijan government. N.Ahmadli highlighted that cancer can be completely and easily treated when is detected on time. She explained the possibility of the therapy of the patients who applied later with concrete facts.
Doctor-oncologist responded students’ questions in the end.