SKIMS medico delivers guest lecture at Italy conference Dr Sameer Naqash, a prominent surgeon and Unit Head upper GI Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery at SKIMS and also fellow at National Cancer Center, Tokyo Japan was invited as guest speaker at prestigious International Gastric Cancer Congress, the highest international forum on gastric cancer in the world, which was held in Verona, Italy, an official handout said. “The forum meets every three years to discuss different modalities of screening and treatment for gastric cancer. The invites include eminent doctors and scientists all over world. Prof Naqash from SKIMS was the only invited faculty from SARC countries,” the handout added. ”Dr Naqash who is also honorary member of Japan Cancer Association presented his Research Paper titled TOTAL GASTRIC RESECTION WIT J POUCH RECONSTRUCTION which involves reconstruction of new stomach after removing the stomach for cancer, and this finally helps patients to get nutritional benefits which otherwise patients are deprived of after stomach removal,” the handout added. Director SKIMS Dr Showkat A Zargar said: “Dr Naqash’s participation has helped the state in getting cancer stomach on global map which will generate interest of international community towards this killer disease which has high prevalence in our state especially south Kashmir which is having incidence of 60%.”
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:38:08 +0000
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