Myeloma Seminar Set
The International Myeloma Foundation will hold an all-day seminar for patients and their families on Saturday at the Universal City Hilton and Towers.
Multiple myeloma is a little-known, fatal cancer of the bone marrow that affects from 75,000 to 100,000 people in the U.S. With more than 13,500 new cases diagnosed each year, it is one of the fastest-growing types of cancer in the Western hemisphere.
Topics to be discussed include bone marrow transplants, vaccine therapy, bone and renal involvement, and recent research findings, such as the influence of a monkey virus found to have contaminated some polio vaccines from 1955 to 1963. Featured speakers will include Brian Durie, director of research and myeloma programs at Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Morie Gertz, professor of medicine at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn.
The seminar fee of $85 covers all speaker sessions, an information packet and two meals. For more information, call (800) 452-2873.
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