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Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center invites patients, family members and anyone interested in learning about thyroid cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment to attend Focus on Thyroid Cancer.

Focus on Thyroid Cancer is a free educational conference featuring Penn’s leading thyroid cancer experts with specialties in surgery, endocrinology, pathology, cytology and nuclear medicine.

Penn’s Focus on Thyroid Cancer Conference addresses the personal and medical issues facing people with thyroid cancer including those in treatment, survivors, their loved ones, relatives and caregivers.

The conference provides patient-focused information on the latest advances in thyroid cancer risk, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, symptom management and psychosocial issues. It is also an opportunity to network and gain support from other thyroid cancer patients and survivors.

Who Should Attend

• Those at risk for thyroid cancer
• People who are newly diagnosed, currently in treatment or a long-term survivor
• Family members, caregivers or healthcare professionals

Join Us

Time: 7:30 am to 3:45 pm
Date: Friday, June 8, 2012
Location: Hilton Hotel located at 4200 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Registration: Register online or call 800-789-PENN (7366)
Cost: FREE

Unable to Attend?

If you are unable to attend in person, join the conference via free livestream. View the free conference livestream from 7:30 am to 3:45 pm ET on June 8.

Join a live web chat from the conference with a panel of expert clinicians who will answer questions about risk, diagnosis and treatment. To participate in the live web chat or submit a question before the conference, visit OncoLink.org/Webchat.

The web chat will take place at 12:15 pm EDT, June 8.

Follow Penn Medicine on Twitter for event information before the conference date, and live tweeting throughout the conference with the hashtag #ThyroidACC.