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Mercy Regional Cancer Center Hosts 16th Annual Cancer Care Symposium

Port Huron, MI…Mercy Regional Cancer Center will host the 16th Annual Mercy Cancer Care Symposium, focusing on Head and Neck Cancers. The symposium is designed to provide primary care physicians, surgeons, oncologists and other health care professionals who treat or care for patients with cancer an in depth educational activity featuring treatment, reconstruction, rehabilitation and basic care of head and neck cancer patients.

Mercy’s Cancer Care Symposium will be held 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, November 10, in the Mercy Hospital cafetorium. Four AMA PRA Category 1 Credits will be offered. The event is sponsored in collaboration with the St. Clair County CME Consortium. Mercy is the only oncology program to host an annual cancer symposium providing continuing cancer education.

Local cancer care experts as well as national specialists, including presenters from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Henry Ford Hospital and the University of Michigan, will present on a broad-range of topics as they relate to head and neck cancer, including an in-depth review of thyroid cancer. The registration deadline is Wednesday, November 7. For more information about the event, cost to attend (if applicable), or to make a reservation, please call (810) 985-9502.

The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has recognized the Mercy Regional Cancer Center as offering the very best in cancer care. For more information about Mercy Hospital and its cancer care programs, visit us online at mymercy.us.