LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 05/27/09 — The Group Room — the nationally syndicated weekly call-in cancer talk radio show — will produce
its annual live ASCO broadcast, which will also be videocast, from the floor of the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Sunday, May 31, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL. The show will take place in the West Building Hall B Lobby, 4:00-6:00pm ET. The annual ASCO meeting is the world premier scientific event for oncology professionals. More than 30,000 cancer specialists from around the world are expected to gather to discuss the latest advances in cancer care, treatment, prevention and survivorship, and this year’s theme is “Personalizing Cancer Care,” a practice focusing on caring for the individual — not just treating the disease — through the entire spectrum of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to survivorship and end of life care. Selma R. Schimmel, founder and CEO of Vital Options International, hosts The Group Room. “As a multiple time cancer survivor, I find this focus on personalized cancer care to be very compelling. It reflects the patient as a whole, as well as the dynamic clinical advances in personalized medicine today,” says Schimmel. Topics to be discussed will include advances in gastrointestinal cancers, lung cancer, women’s cancers, and personalized medicine, with: Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, Medical Director, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Wilmington, DE Chair of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, Colorectal Committee Past President of the Society of Surgical Oncology Chair-Elect of the ASCO Cancer Communications Committee
Sonali M. Smith, MD, Associate Professor, Section of Hematology/Oncology and Associate Director, Lymphoma Program at The University of Chicago Member of the ASCO Cancer Communications Committee.