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Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium


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The 20th Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium was hosted earlier this year by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago. “A new era of cancer vaccines” and encouraging data from early trials were among the topics discussed by Mary (Nora) Disis, MD (second from left), of the University of Washington, Seattle, in the Connie Moskow Memorial Lecture on immunology and breast cancer. Presenting a plaque in appreciation are symposium co-chairs, from left, Nora Hansen, MD, and William Gradishar, MD, of Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Monica Morrow, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.


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