How it was

On May 13 and 14, 2016, a seminar school with international participation on the diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors was held on the basis of the Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital in Moscow.

The seminar was held under the auspices of the Russian Society of Pathologists (ROP) and the Russian Association of Radiologists (RAR), and was included in the program of the School of Radiology of the RAR. The event was organized and conducted by BioVitrum with the support of ROSH Diagnostics Russ.

The main objective of the school-seminar with international participation was to promote the unification of the efforts of specialists directly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors, with the aim of early detection of malignant neoplasms and reducing the mortality rate from them in Russia.

Pathologists, radiologists (specialists in radiation diagnostics), oncologists and laboratory assistants of histological laboratories (departments) were invited to participate in the event. In total, more than a hundred specialists from all over Russia were registered.

The most relevant aspects and topics in the problems of bone pathologies were highlighted in the intensive program of the school-seminar:

  • modern approaches and possibilities of radiation and morphological diagnostics;
  • questions of staging benign and malignant bone tumors;
  • principles of surgical treatment of benign and malignant bone tumors;
  • spindle cell and pleomorphic bone sarcomas, etc.

In addition, together with the theoretical material, experts and specialists had the opportunity to collectively discuss complex cases. Thereby working out in practice a complex mechanism for the diagnosis and detection of malignant neoplasms.

Among the speakers of the event were leading Russian and European experts in this field of medicine:

 

Piero Picci – MD, Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, the Institute of Orthopedics (the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute), Italy (Bologna);

 

 

Daniel Vanel – Professor, Consultant Radiologist of the Institute of Orthopedics (the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute), Italy (Bologna);

 

 

Eric Staals, MD, Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery, Musculoskeletal Oncology Unit, Consultant in orthopedic surgery, Musculoskeletal Oncology, Italy (Bologna);

 

  • Rogozhin D.V. Candidate of Medical Sciences, Head of the Pathology Department of the RDCB,Moscow;
  • Kochergina N. V. – Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, N.N. Blokhin RSC, Moscow;
  • Lopatin A.V. – MD, Professor, Head of the Dentofacial Department 
  • Konovalov D.M. – Candidate of Medical Sciences, Head of the pathology department of the Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow;
  • Kazakova A.N. – Doctor of the cytogenetics Department of theDmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology
  • Myakova N. V.- MD, Head of the Department of Oncohematology, Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow.

Cooperation within the school has created a favorable atmosphere for the exchange of experience and raising the level of knowledge.

The school-seminar on the diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors 2016 was accredited under the new certification system of the Ministry of Health of Russia for pathologists (CONTINUING MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION). All participants received certificates confirming 12 credits, which are a prerequisite for specialists to improve their qualifications.

Within the framework of the school-seminar, an exhibition was also organized, at which the full product portfolio of the morphology of the BioVitrum company was presented — from reagents and dyes of its own production to complex automation of processes in the laboratory (equipment from leading world manufacturers).

The program of the school-seminar provided a training practical part for laboratory technicians-histologists. Within the framework of this two-day practical course, the basics of the application of modern methods of preparing a histological preparation were considered. Emphasis was placed on the processes of decalcification, microtomy and staining of drugs. Laboratory assistants were able to test reagents and consumables for histological studies of the Russian manufacturer.