Vojvoda Živojin Mišić was born in 1855 in a large family as the youngest of thirteen children. As a parent’s darling, he even carried the nickname “bug”. He described his childhood and schooling in the book “My Memories”, and it is noticeable how much his birth house and the first years of growing up marked his entire life.

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“The Mišić family was born in Tepac from Durmitor, and when they came here, they took the surname Mišić after one ancestor, which used to be a custom in Serbia. The book says that all small children had to work, and that at the age of six he helped in all rural affairs, so he wrote “whoever did not take care of goats and sheep, he does not know what misery and trouble are.” All this tells us that the duke was an excellent connoisseur of his people and the mentality of the Serbs, because he himself was born into a restrained family, which greatly influenced his decisions in battle and life, “ethnologist Ivana Đurić told RINA.

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The house of the famous duke was adapted in 1974 and turned into museum needs and was divided into two segments. The first is of a military-biographical character, and in the second part there is an ethnographic exhibition that talks about the way of life of cooperative families of that time.

“Apart from the cultural one, Zivojin Mišić’s birth house also has historical significance, all the buildings that can be seen in the yard are monuments of traditional architecture in Serbia. above it, there is a room or a cell. There are two entrance doors on the building itself, which enabled easier contact with other buildings within the household, and the roof is on four levels and covered with shingles, “said Ivana.

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The cooperatives were families with a large number of blood relatives, and Mišić’s cooperative had as many as 60 members. As many married co-operatives as there were wood carvings in which no fire was lit. There was only a chest with the girl’s clothes, a cradle and a double bed. It was the only intimate space for young married couples.

“In the museum setting, we see everything that is needed for life in these cooperative families, from dishes that they made by hand from natural materials, stalks where flour was kept, finds where bread was kneaded. so the mother of the famous duke Andjelija Mišić was a mountaineer in charge of making white meat “, states the ethnologist.

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The most important part of the house was the fireplace where a fire was lit and food was prepared, the family usually gathered in the central part of the house because there was no telephone or television at that time.

“That place had an economic and social function, and the chains above the hearth had a special meaning and a magical function. When there were no written contracts, they swore just by holding on to the chains and that had the same weight as if a contract had been signed. The belief that ancestors were buried under it or under the threshold is also connected to the hearth, “said Ivana.

Vojvoda Živojin Mišić was one of the most educated officers in Serbia, he taught at the Military Academy, the subject of tactics, and then he systematized his lectures in textbooks. He spoke several foreign languages, was an aide-de-camp to King Milan and Aleksandar Obrenović, and was often even retired for expressing his views, but always returned in times of crisis and reactivated again.

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“In the historical part of the museum exhibition, there are his personal belongings, strategic textbooks, photographs from the Battle of Kolubara and other wars he fought. There you will be greeted by a real historical time machine and rich knowledge about a great military leader “, says the ethnologist.

Vojvoda Živojin Mišić took part in all the wars that were fought on the territory of Serbia from 1876 to 1921. In addition to many of his quotes, which have been repeated all these years, the most impressive is the one “Life is an eternal struggle. Whoever we are can, whoever doesn’t know about fear goes forward. ” He was married to Louise Crickner, and he died in 1921 in Belgrade, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of that date.

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Visiting the morning program, Dr. Ivana Božović-Spasojević, medical oncologist and head of the Day Hospital for Chemotherapy at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, says that facing metastatic breast cancer is one of the most difficult moments in a woman’s life.

According to her, it is not easy to face the diagnosis of a malignant disease, and after the initial shock and anger “why is this happening to me”, the patients want to get the right information so that they can go through the entire treatment easier and better.

“Various information is available today. We wanted to provide them with reliable information that is scientifically substantiated, impartial, timely, and I think that we will achieve that with this education,” Bozovic-Spasojevic points out.

With this online education, patients will get answers to important questions such as: what is the type of disease, what is the subtype of cancer, how is the tumor treated, what are the therapeutic options in our country, what are the therapeutic options in the world, how to go through treatment meaning what side effects can be expected.

“In that way, we wanted to enable patients to have an insight into the treatment plan, which will certainly help them go through the entire treatment, which often lasts several months,” says Dr. Božović-Spasojević.

He adds that an important part of that education will be made by the patients themselves who have gone through the treatment process and who will tell other patients about their personal experience from their experience.

The education is designed to be interactive, there will be a portal and a forum, the possibility of communication with a medical oncologist and patients who are now in the role of educators.

The web address of the training will be forwarded at the promotion of this action on March 20.

10 percent of women have metastatic disease

Metastatic breast cancer is the fourth stage, the most advanced stage. At the time of diagnosis of malignancy, 10 percent of these women have metastatic disease.

“This means that we are not talking only about local treatment, because when the tumor is in an early stage, then it is possible to carry out treatment locally, ie surgically, and then radiation therapy is performed, which is the most common and systemic additional treatment. the disease spread and affected distant organs, then we talk about the fact that systemic treatment is primary. In a third of the patients we treated in the early disease, unfortunately, despite the best therapy, the disease will return, “explains medical oncologist Ivana Bozovic-Spasojevic.

He emphasizes that chemotherapy is actually non-specific. It is not determined on the basis of the tumor subtype, it has a unique mechanism of action and acts non-selectively and very often acts on healthy cells. Therefore, there are often side effects in terms of hair loss, nausea, changes in blood count.

“Targeted therapy acts on the mechanism that the tumor cell uses. We cannot say that targeted therapy has no side effects, it has, but they are usually smaller, it is oral therapy and patients can take it at home,” says Bozovic-Spasojevic.

Oncology has changed

He points out that oncology has changed a lot in the last 20 years. From chemotherapy, which was only applied, today we have come for all localizations in the first lines of treatment when the disease is small, there is a lot of targeted therapy.

“It is essential to preserve the quality of life, not to impair general health and to enable targeted therapy to be given for as long as possible. If you have enough of that therapy, you will have the opportunity to treat the patient longer. Therefore, you have the opportunity to translate the disease into chronic.” is the goal of today’s oncology therapy “, says medical oncologist Ivana Božović-Spasojević.

He points out that breast cancer most often occurs in postmenopausal women, after the age of 50, when screening was organized in Serbia. It is very important, if we know some risk factors for the development of breast cancer, to know that physical activity and maintaining a normal body weight are important.

“The next would be preventive examinations and I hope that when Kovid passes, the system of inviting women for preventive examinations and mammography will be more efficient. I think it is very important for oncology in Serbia to decentralize it because a large number of patients and tertiary institutions like the Institute I can’t accept all patients “, says Dr. Ivana Božović-Spasojević, medical oncologist and head of the Day Hospital for Chemotherapy of the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia.