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A special series of workshops on lung cancer awareness are featured this fall in a program offered by the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. These special workshops will be offered in November during Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

Approximately 173,770 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed this year, accounting for 13 percent of all new cancer cases. More than 87 percent of lung cancers are smoking related. While smoking cessation is a significant step in preventing lung cancer, it is only part of the solution. Recent advances are helping physicians detect the disease at earlier more treatable stages, and more effectively treat the disease after it is diagnosed.

The lung cancer awareness program will address many of these issues in the area of lung cancer prevention, screening, detection and treatment. In addition to hearing from experts in the field of detection and treatment, this program will feature a lung cancer survivor who will speak about her experience.

Date: Wednesday November 3, 2004
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Topic: Lung Cancer Prevention, Detection and Screening
Speaker: Sandra Weibel, M.D.
Pulmonologist
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Date: Wednesday November 3, 2004
Time: 11 a.m. - Noon
Topic: New Advances in Lung Cancer Treatment
Speaker: Walter J. Curran, Jr., M.D.
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Clinical Director, Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson

Date: Wednesday November 3, 2004
Time: Noon-12:30 p.m.
Topic: Surviving and Thriving
Speaker: Barbara Martella
Cancer Survivor and Buddy Program Volunteer

All programs will be held in the Simon Kramer Conference Room, G312 Bodine Center, 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. For more information, call 1-800-JEFF-NOW.