The Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer , a division of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, will sponsor the event. The R.P.B. Auditorium on UCLA's campus, adjacent to the Jules Stein Eye Institute. Chang, named one of the nation's best breast cancer surgeons by Good Housekeeping Magazine in March, is leading research on a vaccine that holds promise as a future treatment for breast and pancreatic cancers. Sherry Goldman, a nurse practitioner at the Breast Center, has been a driving force behind development of the center's High Risk Program, which shows women with family histories of breast cancer how to minimize their risks of the disease. She also helped pilot the center's Follow-Up Program, which teaches breast cancer survivors how to make smooth transitions to life after cancer.
Admission is free.
Reflections, the appearance-enhancement store for cancer patients, will extend its regular business hours to 7 p.m. prior to this event. Reflections is part of the Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center's psychosocial care program.