Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson breast cancer symposium features latest in research, treatment


Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson breast cancer symposium features latest in research, treatment

The latest advances in both breast cancer treatment and research – including innovations in surgical, imaging, chemotherapy and radiation approaches – will be discussed Friday, Feb. 23, 2007 at a breast cancer symposium at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia.

The all-day, breast cancer symposium, part of an annual series at the Kimmel Cancer Center, will be held at the Bluemle Life Sciences Building, 233 S. 10th Street, beginning at 8:20 a.m.

“We’re highlighting the new discoveries that we believe will be important for new therapies in patients with breast cancer,” says Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and professor and chair of cancer biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

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