9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
FDNY Lt. Jon Sezak is currently a patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, being treated for a World Trade Center-related blood disorder. His illness requires regular blood and platelet transfusions. In order for Lt. Sezak to receive them, all designated blood donations must be made in the Blood Donor Room at Memorial Sloan Kettering, […]
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. As we all know, lung cancer is all too common among World Trade Center recovery workers. Log on to Frankly Speaking about Cancer at 4:00pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 to listen to a radio show about dealing with this disease at www.voiceamerica.com. Please call 866-472-5792 with any questions. You […]
The New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center multiple myeloma support group will present a discussion entitled, What’s New in Multiple Myeloma? at their meeting on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 2:00pm. The group offers education and information sharing for multiple myeloma patients and caregivers on the second Wednesday of each month. What’s New in Multiple […]
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is hosting a webinar/teleconference entitled Living with Myeloma - Managing Side Effects and Quality of Life on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time. The speaker will be Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University School of Medicine […]
At 11:00am on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, a bipartisan group of Senate and House lawmakers will be joined by labor leaders, advocates, and 9/11 first responders and survivors to announce introduction of legislation renewing and extending the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation programs set to expire this Congress. After nearly a decade-long fight to stand by […]
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will hold a webinar/teleconference entitled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Update on Slow-Growing Lymphomas on Thursday, April 16, 2015, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm, Eastern Standard Time. The speaker will be Owen A. O'Connor, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics and director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University Medical Center. […]