Yale Cancer Center Answers
A Weekly Radio Program on WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio
For Immediate Release
Date: 6/1/07
Contact: Renee Gaudette 203-436-8533 or renee.gaudette@yale.edu
New Haven, Conn. – Yale Cancer Center is proud to launch a weekly radio show on WNPR – Connecticut Public Radio, Yale Cancer Center Answers. Beginning on National Cancer Survivors Day, June 3rd, the radio program will air from 6:00 – 6:30 PM every Sunday evening and feature the latest information on cancer care.
Cancer Answers is co-hosted by Dr. Edward Chu, Deputy Director and Chief of Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center, and Dr. Ken Miller, Director of the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic at the Center. Each week they are joined by a different cancer specialist, bringing the innovation and expertise of Yale Cancer Center to all of Connecticut.
“Cancer Answers was created to provide patients and their families with help and hope to sustain them in their fight against cancer,” Dr. Miller explained. “The help comes from experts at Yale Cancer Center who are working to develop new and better treatments. The hope comes from our doctors, nurses, and staff whose knowledge and compassion are helping to win the battle against cancer, one patient at a time.”
Myths, facts and advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment are discussed, with a different focus each week. Nationally acclaimed specialists in various types of cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment discuss common misconceptions about the disease and respond to questions from the community.
“A central component of Yale Cancer Center’s mission is education and outreach to the residents in the State,” said Dr. Richard L. Edelson, Director of Yale Cancer Center. “The weekly radio broadcast of Cancer Answers on WNPR provides a unique resource for cancer patients and their families to learn about the latest clinical advances available to them. We are extremely pleased to be able to offer this new program and bring hope to so many of our neighbors.”
Listeners can submit questions to be answered on the program at canceranswers@yale.edu or by leaving a message at 1-888-234-4YCC. This is the second year of radio programs produced by Yale Cancer Center. As a resource, archived programs are available in both audio and written versions on the Yale Cancer Center website at yalecancercenter.org
Yale Cancer Center Answers airs on the five WNPR affiliate radio stations, 90.5 FM Hartford/New Haven; 89.1 FM Norwich/New London; 88.5 FM Stamford/Greenwich; 91.3 FM Southampton, NY; and 99.5 FM Storrs.
Yale Cancer Center is one of a select network of 39 comprehensive cancer centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute and the only one in Southern New England. Bringing together the resources of Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale University School of Medicine, its mission encompasses patient care, research, cancer prevention and control, community outreach, and education. For more information on the Center, please go to www.yalecancercenter.org