The Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer, a division of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, is sponsoring the event. The R.P.B. Auditorium on UCLA's campus, adjacent to the Jules Stein Eye Institute. Figlin, a physician and researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and a professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, specializes in cancers of the lung, kidney, prostate, testicles and bladder. He conducts clinical trials of new cancer therapies that may lead to safer, more effective ways to treat the disease. In his research, he is investigating new ways to treat lung cancer, as well as an immune-system booster that may lead to vaccine treatments for various kinds of cancer.
Admission is free.