UPMC Cancer Centers Presents: “Exploring Myeloma: an Overview for Patients and Families”

PITTSBURGH, June 8 – An estimated 16,000 new cases of myeloma, cancer of plasma cells, were diagnosed in 2005, and over 56,000 people are currently living with the disease in the United States. Myeloma is a disease that occurs more frequently in African-Americans and males.

To provide more information about myeloma, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Cancer Centers' “A Reason To Hope” series, along with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, present, “Exploring Myeloma: An Overview for Patients and Families,” from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, June 22, in the William Cooper Pavilion Classroom, ground floor of the Hillman Cancer Center, 5115 Centre Ave., Shadyside.

G. David Roodman, MD, PhD, director of the Multiple Myeloma Center at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Center for Bone Biology at UPMC, 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 across from the Hillman Cancer Center in the UPMC Shadyside Medical Center garage on Centre Avenue. For more information and to register, please call 800-533-UPMC (8762).

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