In an event attended by leading figures from the worlds of sports, medicine, and the media, the importance of personalized and precision medicine for the future of oncology was emphasized.
Madrid, January 30, 2025.
“We can prevent cancer” was the motto of the conference organized by the Spanish Olympic Committee to raise awareness about what we can do to prevent or address cancer as early as possible.
This initiative was promoted by Pedro Pérez Segura, MD, head of the Medical Oncology Unit of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, with whom we have collaborated in the organization of the online training program Learning Genomics through the ECO Foundation.
The conference was hosted by Roberto Gómez, a well-known Spanish sports journalist, and was attended by Lydia Valentín, olympic medalist in weightlifting; Alejandro Blanco, president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, and Dr. Cesar Rodríguez, president of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology, as well as patients who recounted their experience surviving this disease.
Our colleague Marcia Ajenjo, sales manager of our Oncology department, received the award presented to Health in Code to acknowledge our dedication and commitment to fighting cancer. Both by developing solutions to detect genetic predisposition to certain types of hereditary cancer and by providing molecular tests to characterize each tumor, thus allowing for the best possible approaches and targeted treatments, we help physicians make the best decisions for each patient.
In the words of Dr. Pérez Segura, “we are here to remove the black mark from cancer. We are at a moment in which survival is over 90% for certain types of cancer”. Moreover, he remarked that one in three cancer-related deaths can be preventable, hence the importance of awareness about healthy lifestyles and early detection.
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