16th IHPBA World Congress 15-18 May 2024

16th IHPBA World Congress – Cape Town, South Africa
15 – 18 May 2024

The role of palliative care support in patients with hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers is significant.

Hepatocellular carcinoma is the second leading cancer in men and the third in women in sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 38 629 incident cases and 36 592 hepatocellular carcinoma-related deaths in 2020 for both sexes. Furthermore, more cancers are diagnosed late, and all these patients require palliative care support. Read more.

It is, therefore, appropriate that a whole day is dedicated to palliative care education at the conference, 16 May 2024 08:00 – 17:45. You can find more details here.

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