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On April 27, 2024, Saturday, American Cancer Society, City of Hope, and Lion's Club will host a free cancer health symposium at City of Hope, Cooper Auditorium, 1500 E Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA 91010 on cancer health advancement and tobacco prevention and control. The event will be live-streamed via KZfaq. You may also personally join the watch party hosted by Breast Cancer Hawaii together to raise awareness! Registration is required.
Highlighted Activities:
Health Resources Fair from 12 to 1 pm Pacific Standard Time (City of Hope Cooper Auditorium, Duarte, California)
Youth Media Contest Gallery (City of Hope Cooper Auditorium, Duarte, California)
Cancer Experts Talk from 1 to 4:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, will be live-streamed via KZfaq
Cancer survivors' perspectives
Free lunch tickets available for the first 200 participants (City of Hope Cooper Auditorium, Duarte, California)
Raffle drawings
Join a Watch Party with Breast Cancer Hawaii
The symposium will be conducted in English and live-treamed with simultaneous Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, and Hindi interpretations.
Please remember to bring your charged headset and phone to access the in-language interpretation channels during the event.
Featured Speakers and Panelists:
Vijay Trisal MD City of Hope Duarte Cancer Center System Chief Clinical Officer
Caroline Um American Cancer Society Epidemiology Research Principal Scientist
Percy Lee MD City of Hope OC Leannar Foundation Cancer Center Vice Chair of Clinical Research Department of Radiation Oncology
Charles Brenner Ph.D. City of Hope Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Chair in Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism at City of Hope.
Hannah Park Ph.D. UCI Office of Research Director Athena Breast Health Network
Hsiao-Fen Chen MD. Family Medicine. San Gabriel California
Peter Chen MD Tzu Chi Health Center
Vivian Lee Breast Cancer Survivor Advocate
Angela Mei Teng Unayan Youth Cancer Survivor Advocate ACS-YA Youth Cancer Health Ambassador
Ying Cherrie Ng Project Manager for the CDC-funded national Asian Smokers’ Quitline (ASQ)
Sophia Yeung MHA CTTS City of Hope Community Outreach and Engagement Tobacco Cessation and Lung Cancer Screening Programs
Symposium Topics:
Bridging Data and Disparities to Advance Cancer Care for Asian Americans: Guidance on Colorectal Cancer Risk, Screening Recommendations, and Resources
MR Guided Radiotherapy: How it has re-invented ways radiotherapy helps cancer patients
New Insights into Fatty Liver Asian Ancestry Diet Diabetes and Cancer
Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risk in Asian Americans
Discussion Panel: Exploring Challenges and Solutions in Asian American Perspectives on Cancer Prevention and Early Treatment
Understanding Tobacco Use Among Asian Americans in California: Insights from the Adult Tobacco Use Survey, Youth E-Cigarette Trends, and Family Dynamics
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Click here to download the in-language promotional flyers
This event is sponsored in part by City of Hope Kindness Grant.
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