Morton .MD

[Guest guest]

Our listerserver has put out a call to CLLers in &

around the NYC area to attend a private workshop featuring

one of the most outstanding doctors in modern

hematology/oncology, Dr. Morton . Dr. has

been a practicing physician for over 48 years and is

undisputedly one of the most knowledgeable about CLL/SLL as

well as many other lymphomas and myelomas.

Dr. was Director of the Center for Lymphoma and

Myeloma at NY Presbyterian Hospital when Dr. Furman started

up his practice there and they have worked very closely

together as physician colleagues and researchers. His list

of honorary appointments and awards is too extensive for

here and is available to anyone through Google.

This is a chance to hear and direct questions to one of

those top experts in our disease field we are always telling

members to consult with about their diagnosis and treatment

regimens. He's also a kind, delightful man who exudes

optimism — and backs it up!

Dr. gave a talk at Gilda's Club I attended three

weeks after I'd been diagnosed. He removed many of my fears

and gave me real hope. My having lived a pretty normal life

while having CLL and being treated for it has proven him

right.

When several doctors diagnosed a good friend of mine with

aggressive Mantle Cell Lymphoma and told her to begin tx

immediately or be dead in a few weeks, she stubbornly kept

consulting and finally found Dr. , who said that

while he understood why these doctors misinterpreted the

slides, she had CLL/SLL and did not need treatment. In the

years that followed, she never did have chemo for it.

If you can possibly make it on Saturday, Oct. 15th, e-mail

immediately at JB50192 @ aol.com If he doesn't hear

from enough of us right now, the workshop will be cancelled.

That would be a really big lost opportunity.

" Frances Friedman, " (aka Ellen F.Diamond)