The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) partnered to translate the clinical NCCN Prostate Cancer Guidelines into a patient-friendly resource for appropriate treatment. In March, the NCCN and ACS released patient-friendly breast cancer treatment guidelines. Incorporating the clinical experience of the 17 NCCN member institutions, these new guidelines offer prostate cancer patients and their families the reliable, specific and easy-to-understand information they need to make timely and well-informed decisions about this critical health care issue.

You will have the opportunity to hear the experts discuss these issues and ask them questions during a telephone press briefing.

WHO:

The telephone press briefing panel includes:
• William T. McGivney, Ph.D.
  Chief Executive Officer
  National Comprehensive Cancer Network

• LaMar McGinnis, Jr., M.D.
  Past President, American Cancer Society
  Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine

• Rodger Winn, M.D.
  Chief, Section of Community Oncology
  U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

• Frank Luton
  Patient Advocate
  Prostate Cancer Survivor

• Christopher J. Logothetis, M.D.
  Chairman and Professor of the Department Of Genitourinary Medical Oncology
  U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

WHERE:

PResence EURO RSCG, 200 Madison Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, New York 10016, Polaris Conference Room

WHEN:

Wednesday, June 23, 1999 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT (Callers advised to dial in ten minutes in advance at 11:50 AM)

HOW:

Call 1-800-247-9979 for a press briefing and question-and-answer period. Contact Alyssa Fries at (212) 845-4214 or Bill Baumer at (212) 845-4236 to register.

Joann Schellenbach

American Cancer Society
212-382-2169
jschelle@cancer.org