Alhamdulillah.....a highest praise to Allah, our 1st conference successfully took place as scheduled . Although a few incident happened especially in 1st day of conference , we still able to manage the situations . We accepted it as a learning process that lead us to maturity . It is proven as on our next day, the conference ran smoothly without any major problem. Here are the presentations from our guest speaker for those who missed the conference.
ONCOLOGY EMERGENCIES Oncologic emergencies can occur at any time during the course of a malignancy, from the presenting symptom to end-stage disease. Although some of these conditions are related to cancer therapy, they are by no means confined to the period of initial diagnosis and active treatment. In the setting of recurrent malignancy, these events can occur years after the surveillance of a cancer patient has been appropriately transferred from a medical oncologist to a primary care provider. As such, awareness of a patient's cancer history and its possible complications forms an important part of any clinician's knowledge base. Prompt identification of and intervention in these emergencies can prolong survival and improve quality of life, even in the setting of terminal illness We have chosen to categorize emergencies as metabolic, cardiovascular, infectious, neurologic, hematologic, or respiratory to highlight their lack of disease specificity and to facilitate th...
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