On 27 May 2023, the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology - National Research Institute in Warsaw hosted the second edition of the SOF - Student Onko-Forum 2023 conference, aimed at promoting oncology among students and young doctors as an interesting field of science. Students of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice presented their reports created in the course of activities within student scientific circles. Among the awarded papers in the respective sessions were:
Student Scientific Circle at the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Katowice:
2nd place in the Session of short oral reports - original papers - Magdalena Zapała, Bartosz Zwiernik - " Reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) during oncological treatment among children and adolescents in the material of one centre". Supervisor: Agnieszka Mizia-Malarz, MD, PhD.
Student Scientific Association at the Department of Internal Medicine and Oncological Chemotherapy, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice:
1st place in the Review Paper Session - Jakub Ciesielka, Krzysztof Jakimów, Natalia Tekiela - "Tropics, pigeon and destiny - new treatment options for advanced HR+HER2-/HER2 - low breast cancer". Supervisor: prof. dr hab. n. med. Jerzy Chudek
II place in the Session of short oral reports - case reports IIB - Julia Dobrowolska, Kamil Topolski - "Problem of treatment of obesity in oncology patients - case report". Supervisor: Prof. Jerzy Chudek, MD, PhD
Third place in the Session of short oral reports - case reports IIB - Jakub Ciesielka, Krzysztof Jakimów, Natalia Tekiela - "When it is there and not there at the same time. Luminal B breast cancer without a primary exit point - a case report." Supervisor of the thesis: prof. dr hab. n. med. Jerzy Chudek.
Student Scientific Circle at the Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Katowice, Poland:
1st place in the Session of short oral reports - case reports IIB - Daniel Habraszka, Szymon Gawęda - "Case report of a patient with Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treated with allogeneic bone marrow stem cell transplantation" Supervisor: dr. Adrianna Spałek
Student Scientific Circle at the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze:
2nd place in the Session of short oral reports - IB case reports - Katarzyna Jaskiewicz, Izabella Ryguła - "Can you go on...holiday from chemotherapy? A clinical case analysis of a patient with locally advanced pancreatic cancer." Supervisor of the thesis: dr. Małgorzata Domagała Haduch, MD, Iwona Gisterek, prof. SUM,
Student Scientific Circle at the Department of Pathomorphology , Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze:
Second place in the Session of short oral reports - IB case reports - Katarzyna Jaskiewicz, Izabella Ryguła - "Can you go on...holiday from chemotherapy? A clinical case analysis of a patient with locally advanced pancreatic cancer." Supervisor of the thesis: dr. Małgorzata Domagała Haduch, MD, Iwona Gisterek, prof. SUM,
Student Scientific Association at the Chair and Department of Pathomorphology , Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze:
Award of the President of the Polish Society of Oncological Surgery - Prof. Piotr Richter - Weronika Targosz, Julia Świerczek, Błażej Ochman - "Survival analysis of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung depending on clinicopathological features and the relationship between the size of the primary tumour and the presence of disease symptoms". Supervisor of the study: Dr Paweł Kiczmer.
In addition, the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice was represented by students who, as part of their voluntary scientific work, participate in the activities of the Student Scientific Circle of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Cancer Institute - National Research Institute, Branch in Gliwice.
