UPMC Cancer Centers Presents, “A Reason to Hope: New Advances in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia” in Upper St. Clair on Nov 30

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15 – More than 34,000 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States during 2005. Of these, about 3,970 will be acute lymphocytic leukemia. Although this is mainly a childhood disease, about one-third, or 1,300 cases, will occur in adults.

To provide more information about chronic lymphocytic leukemia, UPMC Cancer Centers will sponsor, “A Reason to Hope: New Advances in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia,” from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the UPMC Cancer Center, Upper St. Clair, 101 Drake Road, Suite B.

Kenneth Foon, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of clinical investigations at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), and co-leader of biological therapeutics and hematologic oncology will present the lecture.

The talk is one in a series of cancer lectures sponsored by UPMC Cancer Centers for patients, their families and the public.

The presentation is free and open to the public. Registration is required and space is limited. Free parking will be available. For more information and to register, please call (800) 533-UPMC (8762).

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