On January 23^rd, 2007 at 1:30 pm Cancer Care Inc. hosted an informative conference call, “Health and Education Workshop Treatment Update on Sarcoma.”  Hosting the call included three MDs with extensive experience in sarcoma treatment.  This call is part of CancerCare’s Connect Program.  The program’s purpose is to unite patients and families with physicians from across the country.   The call about sarcoma was a huge success providing excellent information to over 500 participants from all across the United States (and to international participants from Egypt, Uganda, and the United Kingdom).  Fortunately, CancerCare offers a call play-back option so this call can be listened to at any point in time.

The speakers on the call included:

George D. Demetri

MD, Director, Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Executive Director, Clinical and Translational Research, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Thomas F. DeLaney

MD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Peter W.T. Pisters

MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Elizabeth Ezra

MSW, Oncology Social Worker, CancerCare

TO LISTEN TO A RECORDING OF THIS CALL:

CALL: 1 – 800 – 625 – 5288

The dial-in code: 1158168

Or go to the following URL: http://www.cancercare.org/get_help/tew_details.php?tew=sarcoma_012308&ret=%2Fget_help%2Fhelp_by_diagnosis%2Fdiagnosis.php