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• Cancer Survival Guide: Oncologist Ilya Fomintsev Gives Lecture at ITMO University

  According to the statistics by the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, over the last ten years, the number of people diagnosed with cancer has grown by 18%. Every year, cancer is identified in over 500,000 Russian citizens. While the emergence of social media has made information about cancer more accessible, this has yet to have any effect on morbidity rates. This probably has to do with most information about cancer being false. In an open lecture which was conducted as part of Pink October, the breast cancer awareness month, Ilya Fomintsev, oncologist and executive director of the "Ne Naprasno" (“not in vain” -- Ed.) cancer prevention foundation spoke about the risk factors for cancer, screening, and other associated issues.

  07.11.2018

• Profilaktika.Media - Russia’s First Media Project on Cancer

  At the beginning of this year, Master’s students and graduates of ITMO’s Science Communication program launched Profilaktika.Media, an educational media project from the Cancer Prevention Foundation. Before the year ends, they plan to launch a column “A guide to cancer types”, as well as publish instructions for oncology patients facing complex situations. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the project’s editor Polina Poleschuk and author Lizaveta Babitskaya talked about writing about oncology for a wider audience, trust issues in medicine, and why one shouldn’t believe everything they find on such resources as PubMed.

  09.08.2018