Many specialists have insisted on the importance of continuing education in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics to ensure better care of patients.
Similar debates on prostatic pathologies marked the second edition of the urological spring of Cirta, organized Thursday and Friday, at the Marriott hotel in Constantine, by the Cirta Urologists Club, chaired by Professor Riad Sayoud.
The latter, and in a note addressed to the participants, broadcast on the club’s Facebook page, mentioned: “This meeting, now inscribed in the national scientific calendar, testifies to our common desire to cause a tradition of excellence, exchange and innovation in urology.”
Moreover, during his opening speech of this scientific event which took place Thursday, Pr Sayoud said: “This second edition of urological spring is entirely devoted to prostatic pathologies, in particular cancer, benign hypertrophy, the causes of frequent urinary mictions, urinary disorders as well as infertility in the couple.”
Pathologies which today represent a serious concern for both patients and for practitioners, especially with the considerable increase in cases, especially for prostate cancer which rises in the classification of the best known cancers among men in Algeria.
Pr Sayoud did not miss this opportunity to underline the importance of continuing education in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, to ensure better care of patients. He highlighted the efficiency and opportunities offered by these new technologies to avoid complications during surgical interventions in urology.
This vision was also shared on this occasion by many university professors and doctors specializing in this field, who insisted on the importance of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, in parallel with the expertise of the attending physician, in order to improve the precision of auscultations and to advance the rate of treatments.
Need for early screening
The program of the first day of this conference was marked by the intervention of Dr Tarek Djellouat, exercising in the Nephrology Service of the Perpignan Hospital (France), entitled “Prostate cancer surgery assisted by robot with artificial intelligence”, in which he put forward “the major advances linked to the use of the surgical robot in the ablation interventions Prostate, laparoscopic surgery and magnetic resonance imaging allowing a remarkable precision of the cancerous progression ”.
For its part, Dr. Mustapha Mahdi Saker, of the hospital specialized in urology and nephrology of the Daksi city in Constantine, raised the need for early detection of prostate cancer. “The effectiveness of the treatment is based first on a diagnosis established in time; It is urgent to break taboos that still slow down the patients’ initiative to submit to an examination and to start a timely care, “he argued.
According to the organizers, this event in which experts from the University of Constantine, from the Sétif hospital, a French hospital center, as well as several research laboratories specialized in cancer pathologies have also taken part in different wilayas, aims to bring together specialists in urology throughout Algeria, thus offering a platform for scientific exchanges and sharing of expertise, clinical experiences, Perspectives, and to enrich collective reflection in order to enhance national skills and contribute to the development of urology in Algeria.
As a reminder, the interventions programmed in this conference addressed the themes of urological cancers, mainly those of prostate and bladder, the symptomatology of the low non -neurological urinary system (HBP, urethral pathology), trauma of the low urinary system and external genitals, and male and Andrology
