More than twenty themes will be discussed in the XIV Cuban surgery congress which will take place in the Tryp Habana Libre Hotel, in Havana, from October 9th until 11th, where the last advances of this specialty will be exposed.

According to the organizing committee, some of the themes are: advances in oncologic surgery; of the thyroid and parathyroid; lungs and mediastinum, esophagus and gastric joint; stomach and duodenum; small intestine, colon and anus; liver, bile ducts, pancreas and spleen; minimal invasive surgery; trauma and breasts.

The scientific program also includes surgery for the elders, the ambulatory type, bariatrics, technological advances and investigations in that field, medical education, nutrition and transplantation, among others.

More than a hundred specialists around the country will participate in this scientific forum to honor the renowned Cuban surgeons and teachers Benito Saínz Menéndez, Manuel Fuentes Rodríguez, Roberto Méndez Catasús and Rómulo Soler Vaillant.

On Monday, the pre congress courses were about trauma surgery, the hernial one, the hepatic, the thoracic, the oncologic, breast conditions and minimal invasive, among others.