Childhood cancer awareness month

Yesterday, health professionals from the Clinic for Children’s Diseases, University Clinical Center Tuzla together with members of “Heart for Children” Society hosted a press conference with aim to raise awareness to the burden of childhood cancer. On that occasion it was said that Bosnia and Herzegovina faces large increase in number of children diagnosed with…

HSC Transplants in Clinical Center Tuzla

Today, the bone marrow transplant team from the Clinic of Hematology and Transplantation, University Clinical Center Tuzla performed autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) of bone marrow in a 24- year- old patient suffeing from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is the second hematopoietic stem cell transplant that our transplant team performed over the past two weeks.…

World Cancer Day, February 4

World Cancer Day is an international day marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer, and to encourage its prevention, early detection, treatment and care of patients suffering from cancer. World Cancer Day originated from 2000 when the first World Summit Against Cancer was held in Paris. At this meeting, leaders of government agencies…

The Piljic- method presented at the press conference

Today, the University Clinical Center Tuzla hosted a press conference to present the Piljic- method that was used in surgery of total occlusion of the aorta with critical limb ischemia. This method invented and carried out Prof. Dr. Dragan Piljić, cardiovascular surgeon, head of the Department for vascular surgery. In speaking to the press Prof.…