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Recently the 8th Cuban Congress of Hematology was finished with the attendance of experts from 24 countries and Cuba, disserting about Leukemia, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hemophilia, primary immunodeficiency and transplants. In this contexts, Cuba showed its experiences because of the country investment in newest technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, among them, it should be pointed out the following:
More than 90 % of acute promyelocytic leukemia (A-PML) patients being cure, a result in the field of Hematology that was selected by the Academy of Science of Cuba for an Annual Prize.
Until an 80 % of success in the cure of the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children, that is the most frequent malignant disease in Childhood.
The use of ARSENIN® -arsenic trioxide-, a Cuban made drug, for the treatment of A-PML given patients a better remission time keeping them for more than 5 years without disease events. Cuba was one of the first countries in the World introducing this treatment and a pioneer in Latin-America.
Showed results are a sign of the realized efforts done by the Cuban revolutionary Government putting public health as a priority for our social system and favoring the existing 37 Hematology and Immunology services network and specialist in 62 hospitals around the whole country and in the special municipality of the Isle of Youth. That medical attention network is organized by levels in every province, giving to the second level all medical hematological attention. For the more complex clinical conditions, a regionalized program in Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Camagüey, Villa Clara, the “Hermanos Ameijeiras” Hospital, and the Institute of Hematology and Immunology offer this medical attention.
In our country, between 30 to 40 bone marrow transplant (BMT) are performed every year and haploidentical ones have been already done. In provinces like Villa Clara and Holguín, as well as in the Institute of Hematology and Immunology and the “Hermanos Ameijeiras” Hospital BMT is a reality for remitted patients.
During the last 5 years, Cuba have made a great effort to introduce advanced technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of hematological diseases. This year, a plan is to introduce real time PCR and gene-sequencing as part as the histocompatibility studies to allow the creation of the Cuban Bone Marrow Non-related Donor Registry. Additionally, an investment is going on to give new facilities for the Institute of Hematology and Immunology, including the first Cuban cord blood cell bank, for transplant and cell therapy.

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DSC02447BENCOMOProf. Dr. Antonio Bencomo Hernández, Ph.D., President of Hematology 2017 Congress and President of the Cuban Socienty of Hematology will give the Main Lecture at the opening ceremony 5:30 PM of Monday 8th of May at Room No. 3 of the Havana International Conference Center

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Hematology 2017 is here:
– X Latin American Meeting on Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine
– V International Workshop on Hemophilia
– III Workshop on Primary Immunodeficiencies

– VIII CUBAN CONGRESS OF HEMATOLOGY

International Conference Centre, Havana, Cuba, May 8-12, 2017

The Cuban Society of Hematology and the Institute of Hematology and Immunology announce their congress HEMATOLOGY 2017
and expect to have significant participation of professionals working on these fields of medical sciences, to achieve the most relevant and successful academic and scientific exchange.
MAIN SUBJECTS:
Considering the different branches of the Congress there will be simultaneous sessions in independent rooms, related to:

– Leukemias and other malignant hemopathies.
– Stem cell transplantation
– Hemophilias and other coagulation disorders
– Inherited and acquired anemias
– Sickle cell disease
– Immunodeficiencies and other immunological disorders.
– Autoimmunity
– Immunohematology
– Immunodiagnostics
– Transfusion medicine and blood bank organization

Auspicated by: PAHO/WHO (Pan American Health Organization), WFH (World Federation of Hemophilia), Cuban Minister of Public Health, Cuban National Council of Medical Scientific Societies, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Cuban Socienty of Immunology, Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), American Socienty of Hematology (ASH), The Latin-American Cooperative Group of Hemostasis and Thrombosis (GLAHT).

Organizing Committee:
Honor President: Prof. Dr. Jose M. Ballester Santovenia, PhD.
President: Prof. Antonio Bencomo, PhD., President, Cuban Society of Hematology
Vice-President: Prof. Consuelo Macías, PhD., Director, Institute of Hematology and Immunology
Professional Congress Organizer (OPC): Havana International Conference Center : Mrs. Alicia Garcia Gonzalez
Tels. 537 643 8268/643 8695/208 5199 – telefax: 537 644 2334/202 8382
emails: hematologia2017@infomed.sld.cu,
ihi@infomed.sld.cu,
aliciagarcia@palco.cu
websites: http://hematologia2017.sld.cu, www.cpalco.com

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Hematology scientific meetings in Cuba were initiated in 1973 with the First Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, thanks to the solidarity of the Mexican and Venezuelan colleagues members of the International Society of Hematology, the Drs. Luis Sánchez Medal and Tulio Arends, respectively, who toghether with Prof. Dr. Ernesto de la Torre, at that time President of the Cuban Society of Hematology and Director of the Institute of Hematology and Immunology, who decided to promove the presence of representatives from different countries of Latin-America and Spain in Havana, when Cuba was being isolated by political reasons.

Prof. DrC. Ernesto de la Torre Montejo

Year Events
1973: I Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology.

1974: I Internacional Workshop on Inmunology

1985: II Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine.

1989: HEMATOLOGY´89: I National Congress of Hematology. III Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and Meeting of the Latin-American Cooperative Group of Hemostasis and Trombosis.

1993: HEMATOLOGY´93: II National Congress of Hematology. IV Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, I Cuba-Brazil Meeting on Hematology.

1997: HEMATOLOGY´97: III National Congress of Hematology. V Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine.

2001: HEMATOLOGY´2001: IV National Congress of Hematology. VI Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, I International Workshop of Hemophilia.

2005: HEMATOLOGY´2005: V National Congress of Hematology. VII Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, II International Workshop of Hemophilia; I International Simposium of Regenerative Medicine.

2009: HEMATOLOGY´2009: VI National Congress of Hematology. VIII Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, III International Workshop of Hemophilia; II International Simposium of Regenerative Medicine.

2013: HEMATOLOGY´2013: VII National Congress of Hematology. IX Latin-American Meeting on Cooperative Works in Hematology, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, IV International Workshop of Hemophilia and other coagulation disorders; III International Simposium of Regenerative Medicine. III Caribbean Conference on Sickle Cell Disease.

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