Empowering Cancer Patients: Bold New Partnerships in Research and Treatment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Deerfield, IL - 

The Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships presents an afternoon with James S.Gordon, MD, Chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

Sunday, December 2, 2001
1:00 pm until 5:00 pm
Chicago Marriott O’Hare Hotel

Join Jim Gordon for an intensive and eye opening workshop, exploring:

• Patient-centered partnerships. Learn how patients, doctors, and other health care professionals can work together to seek a future without cancer.
• Family and peer group partnerships. Gain an understanding of the critical role that support networks play in integrative medical treatments and the impact they can have on cancer therapies.
• Entrepreneurial partnerships. Find out how collaborative efforts between philanthropists and research scientists will advance new cancer treatments.

For more information and to register for Empowering Cancer Patients, call toll free: (877 206-0317). The registration fee is $20.00 per person. If cost is a burden, reduced fees are available. When you call, ask about the special reception to Meet the Researchers immediately following the workshop.

This exciting and inspirational event is sponsored by:

• Cancer Support Center, Homewood
• Cancer Wellness Center, Northbrook
• The Center for Integrative Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Gilda's Club Chicago
• Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation
• Wellness House, Hinsdale
• Wellness Place, Palatine
• West Suburban Health Care, Center for Integrative Medicine

Empowering Cancer Patients is a workshop designed for cancer patients and their families, for those in the health care professions seeking new approaches and for anyone interested in joining the fight against cancer. If you have been touched by cancer in any way, Empowering Cancer Patients is for you.