Dr. Hisham El-Ghazaly, Professor of Lung Oncology at the First Conference on Lung Tumors and Pleura, explained that the aim of the conference is cooperation between professors of radiology, tumors and chest diseases by presenting medical research in Egypt and a number of countries in the world and the latest in the use of non-traditional treatments next to chemotherapy. Especially immunotherapy, which targets infected cells, and whose use is being expanded on a large scale in the world, which helped the participating senior doctors and young doctors to exchange insights to know the latest in medicine, especially in light of the spread of the Corona virus that affects the lung and many of its symptoms are similar to what Patients suffer from lung pain due to the presence of cancerous tumors
Dr. Al-Ghazali indicated that the recent studies that were discussed during the conference showed that immunotherapy can be used before surgery, which is new in surgeries related to tumors in general and lung tumors in particular, as the cure rate increases by 34%, and that the conference recommended the use of this in all specialties. In all university hospitals and hospitals of the Ministry of Health, which contributes to the treatment of patients well using immunotherapies, with the necessity of conducting early detection and conducting an extensive medical survey through the National Health Initiative similar to the 100 Million Health Initiative
