U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News National Cancer Institute (NCI) http://www.cancer.gov/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 CONTACT: NCI Media Relations Branch, 301-496-6641, ncipressofficers@xxxxxxxxxxxx News Advisory SCIENCE WRITERS' SEMINAR ON CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: NCI/Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University Chicago, Ill., April 11, 2006 WHAT: The number of cancer survivors in the United States is now over 10 million, and this number has grown exponentially over the past few decades. Much of this increase can be attributed to better detection and improved treatments. The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has worked closely with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and other cancer centers, on advances that have had a major impact on cancer survivors. Survivorship research focuses on the health and life of a person with a history of cancer beyond the acute diagnosis and treatment phase. It seeks to both prevent and control adverse cancer diagnosis and treatment-related outcomes such as late effects of treatment, second cancers, and poor quality of life, to provide a knowledge base regarding optimal follow-up care and surveillance of cancers, and to optimize health after cancer treatment. Please join us for a series of talks on the latest research that will help enhance the quality of life for cancer survivors nationwide as well as on the programs that Northwestern and NCI have developed to assist cancer survivors. WHO: -- Jamie Von Roenn, M.D. (Lurie): Welcome -- Noreen Aziz, M.D., Ph.D. (NCI): Cancer Survivorship Research at NCI -- Charles Bennett, M.D., Ph.D. (Lurie): Winning the Battle and Winning the War - Lessons Cancer Patients Can Learn -- Kim Dilley, M.D., M.P.H. (Lurie): Survivors Take Action and Responsibility (STAR) -- Lynne Wagner, Ph.D. (Lurie): Quality of Life in Young Breast Cancer Survivors -- Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D. (Lurie): Fertility Preservation for Female Cancer Patients: New Potential through Research -- Cancer Survivor: Personal Experience Dealing with Cancer WHEN: 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CST, Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Please arrive at 10:45 a.m. for registration and coffee. A complimentary lunch will be served. Tours of the cancer center will be available for those interested. WHERE: Northwestern University, 340 East Superior Street, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Ill. For directions and maps, please go to: http://www.cancer.northwestern.edu/Directions/Index.cfm. HOW: To register for the seminar, please contact Dorie Hightower or Ann Benner in the NCI Media Relations Branch at (301) 496-6641 or at ncipressofficers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov. ## This NIH News Release is available online at: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2006/nci-21.htm. To subscribe (or unsubscribe) from this list, go to http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihpress&A=1.
