Our Mission
The Pancreatic Cancer Alliance exists to support the efforts of the medical and research communities as well as patients and their loved ones in the battle against pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but receives the least research funding of the major cancers.



Created:
March 12, 2006

Symposium to celebrate the opening of the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology

and the introduction of the
Pancreatic Cancer Alliance Scholar

Presented by the UMass Memorial Cancer Center
and the
Pancreatic Cancer Alliance

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 6-8 pm

Program

UMASS MEMORIAL CANCER CENTER UPDATE
Dario C. Altieri, M.D.
Eleanor Eustis Farrington Professor and Chair of Cancer Biology, Director, UMass Memorial Cancer Center

THE UMASS MEMORIAL CENTER FOR GASTROINTESTINAL ONCOLOGY: STATE-OF-THE-ART GI CANCER CARE
Steven R. Grossman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology and Medicine, Co-Director, GI Cancer Program, UMass Memorial Cancer Center

PANCREATIC CANCER ALLIANCE SCHOLAR INTRODUCTION
Giles F. Whalen, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery, Chief of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery

WHIPPLE REVISITED — MAKING MORE PATIENTS RESECTABLE
Jennifer F. Tseng, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery

THE CHRONICLES OF PANCREAS CANCER
— WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Malcolm J. Moore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto

Location: Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA

Parking is available in the new South Road Parking Garage
RSVP by April 10 to Tiffany.Hearn@umassmed.edu
or call 508-856-5520
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