Yale Cancer Center Benefit Promises a Magical Evening

For Immediate Release
Date: 4/4/05

Contact : Renee Gaudette (203) 785-2143

La Cassa Magica, Yale Cancer Center's annual benefit, will be held at the Country Club of Fairfield on April 16, 2005 at 6:00 PM in celebration of the progress made in cancer research and in support of research and clinical care at Yale Cancer Center.

The Honorable Rudolph W. and Mrs. Judith Giuliani are the honorary chairs for the evening, which will benefit the development of clinical trials at Yale Cancer Center in an effort to create targeted treatments aimed at eradicating cancer.

CNN television news anchor and Yale Cancer Center Board member Paula Zahn will host the evening. Kathryn Anderson Adams of Greenwich is chairing the event. Underwriters include, Duke Brodsky, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans, R.S. Evans Foundation, Morgan Stanley, Amy and Joseph Perella, Pratt & Whitney, Purdue Pharma L.P, Turner Construction Company, and Paula Zahn and Richard Cohen.

Established in 1974, Yale Cancer Center was one of the first university-based comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. Today, it is one of a select network of only 39 in the United States, and the only one in Southern New England.