The Academy of Medicine’s Franco-Russian Forum

(the FAM’s fifth event), was held in Moscow on 30 June and 1 July 2016.

As in previous sessions, the Forum consolidated medical relations between France and Russia. Following the invitation from Professor Dedov, a famous Russian diabetes specialist and Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Science, French and Russian experts discussed issues relating to diabetes, the new care of cancer patients and innovations in medical research and education.

These subjects have a particular resonance on the medical scene in both countries. Diabetes is a real public health scourge, giving rise to a wide range of problems: care for patients, the prognosis in high-risk families, the management of pregnant diabetic women, etc. Cancer, which affects our countries in equal measure, now involves new ways of caring for patients; new perspectives are emerging. Treatment of patients is becoming more and more integrated and targeted. Research shows new problems, such as in precision medicine, where mutation does not always prove to be the driver, or in the study of new regulators in the identification of metastases.