{"id":3360,"date":"2018-11-20T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pamemmazi.org\/i-deuteri-imerida-tou-pamemmazi-oloklirothike-me-epityxia"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:02:40","slug":"pamemmazis-annual-forum-was-successfully-held-for-the-second-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pamemmazi.org\/en\/pamemmazis-annual-forum-was-successfully-held-for-the-second-consecutive-year","title":{"rendered":"PAMEMMAZI\u2019s annual Forum was successfully held for the second consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, 20 October, held its second annual Forum entitled: Empathy in action: Ensuring quality of life in cancer patient\u2019s trajectory. <\/em>The Forum was hosted by The American College of Greece.<\/p>\n

PAMEMMAZI<\/strong> is a Greece-based, registered non-profit organization which aims to improve psycho-social health of cancer patients, to destigmatize cancer, to promote empathy among health professionals and the community at large, and to highlight the need to empower patients to actively engage in their treatment, management of side effects and decision-making process for their life and care. All the above will facilitate the improvement of patients\u2019 quality of life.<\/p>\n

The Forum, which comprised of a round table discussion and four interactive workshops, was organized to explore and to present results demonstrating that cancer is a complex, multidimensional, evolving, and often chronic disease and that patients\u2019 quality of life depends on a variety of factors, some of which are:<\/p>\n