Journal of RNA and Genomics

DISTRESS IN CANCER POPULATION: AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Joint Event on Euro Congress on BIOTECHNOLOGY & International Conference on GENOMICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & Global Congress on CANCER SCIENCE AND THERAPY
November 26 -27, 2018 |Madrid, Spain

Sorin Buga

City of Hope, USA

Keynote : J RNA Genomics

Abstract:

Patients faced and fighting with a cancer diagnosis are facing multiple distressing factors that could adversely affect compliance with medical care and the outcomes of cancer therapy and even the overall survival. City of Hope has developed a screening tool named Support Screen that identifies biopsychosocial problems related distress and facilitates patient, physician and multi-specialist communication. This presentation will share with the audience the data collected in our institution regarding various distressing factors (emotional, communication, social, physical, spiritual, etc.) to our general cancer population and to various cancer diagnosis groups (GI, Breast, Lung, etc.).

Biography:

Sorin Buga is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Supportive Care Medicine at City of Hope, Duarte, California. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine And Hospice And Palliative Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He completed his fellowship in palliative medicine at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. He is the City of Hope’s representative on the NCCN Adult Cancer Pain Panel and an Active Member of the American Academy of Integrative Pain Management, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care and International Association for the Study of Pain. He has published in the peer review literature and is often invited to speak at scientific meetings.

E-mail: sbuga@coh.org

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