International Lymphoma Awareness Day is celebrated at Bahiana

“We support all of the faculty's initiatives to update and bring topics of interest to public health and for the training of our students. The initiative of Prof. Karla Mota is worthy of all praise for being an important pathology and came to collaborate with the training of the entire student body at Bahiana”, reports the coordinator of the Medicine course, Dr. Eliana de Paula, who was present at the International Lymphoma Awareness Day, conceived by Hematology professor Karla Mota, at the Academic Unit Brotas, from Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, on the 15th of September.

The program was attended by the representative of the Brazilian Association of Lymphoma and Leukemia (ABRALE), Samara Floquet, Medicine students and participants of the Leagues of Clinical Medicine and Hematology of Bahiana.

On the occasion, Prof. Karla Mota gave a lecture on lymphomas, causes and forms of prevention. Then she answered questions from medical students who also had access to more information at the ABRALE stand, where Samara Floquet presented information about the association and explained the movement “Together against Lymphoma”.

The International Lymphoma Awareness Day was created in 2004 as the World Lymphoma Awarenes Day (WLAD) by an institution called the Lymphoma Coalition, based in Canada. 63 organizations from 44 countries participate in this institution and in Brazil, only ABRALE is a member.

“We created this program with the aim of creating an alert for the general population highlighting lymphoma as an important cancer to be thought of and how we should proceed to detect an early diagnosis. We hope that medical students will be multipliers of this information”, explains Professor of Hematology at Bahiana, Karla Mota.

Lymphoma is a very complex pathology and, in most cases, difficult to be detected and the 5th semester Medicine student, Vitor de Araújo Rocha, highlighted the importance of the initiative for academic knowledge. “Lymphoma is a disease that everyone has heard about, but few people have an idea of ​​the complexity of the pathology, which has a considerable prevalence, so it is interesting to disclose it”.

ABRALE (Brazilian Association of Lymphoma and Leukemia) is headquartered in São Paulo and operates in 10 cities in Brazil. It aims to instruct and support patients with pathologies. “We work in five hospitals here in Salvador: Martagão Gesteira, Hospital das Clínicas, Santa Izabel, São Rafael and Aristides Maltez. Blood cancer is one of the most complicated to be diagnosed and ABRALE works specifically in the dissemination and awareness of what lymphoma is”, concludes ABRALE representative Samara Floquet.

“Lymphoma is a complex disease, but many people are unaware of it. It has gained some visibility in society on account of famous actors who have been carriers such as Reynaldo Gianecchini, Drica Moraes, among others, so I think the disclosure is very valid”, concludes the component of the League of Clinical Medicine and student of the 5th semester of Medicine , Luiza Guedes, 22 years old.

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