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Under The Patronage of H.H. Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qassimi
Friends of Cancer Patients will play the host for the 5th Gulf Federation for Cancer Control Conference in Sharjah, 5th to 7th May 2011, with the main theme being "Colorectal Cancer - Diagnostics, Treatment and Control."

Supported by the World Health Organization and the GCC Council for Health Ministers,
the Organizing Committee of the Conference is pleased to invite all researchers and those concerned with colorectal cancer to participate in the conference either through presentation
of latest scientific developments and diagnostic / treatments methods, presentation of latest scientific statistics related to the spread in the Arab Gulf region and/or presentation of the latest scientific research in this field.




		Gulf Cancer Control Federation

• Epidemiology & Burden of Diseases

• UAE & Gulf Registry

• Screening & Prevention

• Genetics & Molecular



	Dr. Khaled A. Al-Saleh President GFFCC 2011 Conference
Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased that the 5th Gulf Federation for Cancer Control Conference on Colorectal Cancer will be held as scheduled in Sharjah, UAE in May 2011. The GFFCC Conference is a regular conference held every two years, the last one was held in Yemen in 2009 focusing on Head and Neck cancer..... more

Colorectal Cancer Treatment

Surgery Intervention

• Early Disease Surgery Colon

• Early Disease Surgery Rectal

• Advanced Disease: Local Version

• Advanced Disease: Metastatic (Liver)

• Robotic Surgery

Up To Date Advance Treatment

• Adjuvant Therapy in Early Disease

• Treatment of Metastatic Disease

• Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer

• Controversies of Management

Support Care & Services

• Role of Nurses (Colostomy Care)

• Role of Psychosocial Support (Community)

• Role of Nutrition & Dietician

• Palliative Care & Pain Control

Radiology & Pathology

• Current Trends in imaging for
...Colorectal Cancer

• Virtual Colonoscopy & Endoscopy

• The Role of Pathologist in the
...Management of Colorectal Cancer



	Ms. Ameera Bin Karam President of the Board of Trustees Friends of Cancer Patients (FOCP)
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to extend a warm welcome to the participants of the 5th GFFCC 2011 Conference. We are delighted to be your hosts at the Emirate of Sharjah and together with our valued partner, GFFCC, I can promise you all that we are already working on ensuring that our destination will live up to all you may expect of it..... more