Rabat - Princess Lalla Salma, the president of the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, chaired on Wednesday evening the National Day against Cancer at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech.
Rabat – Princess Lalla Salma, the president of the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, chaired on Wednesday evening the National Day against Cancer at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech.
The event started with a presentation by Princess Lalla Salma’s foundation discussing the recommendations of the symposium “Breast Cancer in Morocco: a Global Approach,” organized in Marrakech on November 21 and 22.
Speaking on this occasion, Dr. Christopher P. Wild, the director of the International Cancer Research Centre in Lyon, then gave a lecture entitled “Breast Cancer: A Major and International Challenge.”
On this occasion, Lalla Salma awarded the international prize for the fight against cancer to Professor Claude Chardot, a pioneer in the fight against cancer in France, who actively participated in the creation of Rabat’s National Institute of Oncology.
Princess Lalla Salma also handed the national prize for fight against cancer to Pr. Hassan Errihani, one of Morocco’s leading oncologists.
The ceremony concluded with an exceptional concert by the Deutsche Philharmonie Merckch.
