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DATE: Tuesday, October 12, 2004

TIME: 4-6:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Loew’s Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia

EVENT: Emmy award-winning composer and pianist Misha Segal will give a special concert to benefit the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson at the conclusion of the center’s third annual educational conference: “Life After a Cancer Diagnosis.” The conference will feature breakout sessions presented by experts in the field from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on topics such as vitamins and herbal therapies; exercise; new advances in cancer treatment; identifying and treating the late effects of cancer treatment; strategies for caregiving; and coping with cancer before age 40.

Misha Segal’s concert, “Beauty Found in Unlikely Places,” has been performed across the country to raise spirits, funds and awareness in the fight against cancer. His concert series was inspired by his mother’s six-year battle with lung cancer. He will perform selections from his latest piano release, Female.

BACKGROUND: The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Clinical Cancer Center, is a collection of the most advanced patient services in medical specialties dealing with cancer.