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Alabama Cancer Symposium

June 25-27, 2004, Sandestin, FL

The Minority Health & Research Center in conjunction with the Alabama Department of Public Health and the American Academy of Family Physicians are hosting the Alabama Cancer Symposium in Sandestin, Florida.

The two day program will focus on Prevention, Early Detection and Novel Therapies for Breast, Colon, Gynecologic and Prostate Cancer and it aims at improving the outcomes of cancer patients in Alabama through early detection by the primary care physicians.

Program

Alabama Cancer Symposium, Sandestin, Florida

Friday, June 25, 2004

8:00 - 9:00 am
Cancer Prevention - Lifestyles/ Nutrition/ Screening
Groesbeck Parham, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

9:00 - 10:00 am
Breast Cancer
Stephen F. Sener, MD, Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare

10:45 am - 11:45 am
Colorectal Cancer
Alan G. Thorson, MD, FACS, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine.

11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Prostate Cancer
Otis Brawley, MD, Associate Director, Population Control, Winship Cancer Center, Emory University School of Medicine

Saturday, June 26, 2003

10:45 am - 11:15 am
Cervical Cancer
Edward E. Partridge, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:15 am - 11:45 am
Ovarian Cancer
Mack N. Barnes, III, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Current Research and Emerging Technologies
Mansoor Saleh, MD, Georgia Oncology Network*