CANCER SEMINAR OFFERED FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

SIKESTON -- Missouri Delta Medical Center and the American Cancer Society will present "Cancer Prevention, Detection and Treatment in the '90s" March 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sikeston Ramada Inn.

The seminar is designed to provide physicians, nurses and allied health-care professionals with information concerning early detection and treatment of cancer. The program will offer information specific to breast, colon, prostate and skin cancer.

Dr. Richard Wender, clinical associate professor of Family Medicine at Jefferson College in Philadelphia, will be the featured speaker. Wender is also chairman of the American Cancer Society's Primary Care Task Force. He will speak about early detection by primary care providers.

Other speakers include Dr. Ned Rhodes, medical director of Audrain Medical Center's cancer control program in Mexico, Mo.; Dr. Scott Fosko, assistant professor of dermatology at St. Louis University Health Services Center; Dr. Raul O. Parra, professor of urology and director of urologic and oncology at St. Louis University; and Dr. Anthony Vernava, associate professor of surgery and chief of colon and rectal surgery at St. Louis University.

Cost of the seminar is $20 for physicians and $15 for other health professionals. Registration can be made by calling Mary Carolyn Adams, Missouri Delta Medical Center, at 472-7330.