Scottsdale Healthcare Foundation’s 34th annual Honor Ball has a new beneficiary: cancer research and treatment at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare.
One of the Valley’s most elegant and exciting black tie events, The Honor Ball will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 6, 2010 in The Phoenician Resort Grand Ballroom.
Cancer research at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare is led by world-renowned cancer researcher and chief scientific officer Daniel Von Hoff, MD. New drugs and therapies being studied at Scottsdale Healthcare are the first step from the research lab to cancer patients, and may eventually to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to become standard treatment.
The Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare administers this groundbreaking cancer research. Cancer research patients from across the United States and beyond are seen by Dr. Von Hoff and his team. Dr. Von Hoff is co-leader of the Stand Up to Cancer “Dream Team” for pancreatic cancer research, and led the study of a potential new skin cancer treatment featured this month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Several studies conducted at Scottsdale Healthcare have yielded promising results to advance the battle against cancer. Skin, lung and pancreatic cancer clinical trials conducted at Scottsdale Healthcare have been the subject of scientific papers and presentations at recent international cancer conferences.
"Patients in our community have access to ground-breaking, world-class research right in their own backyard," said Mark Slater, PhD, vice president of research at Scottsdale Healthcare. "Our goal is reducing the time it takes to get new treatment discoveries from the research lab to the patient, and we are pleased that proceeds from The Honor Ball will support this important work."
The Honor Ball has raised more than $8 million to benefit Scottsdale Healthcare. To learn more about cancer research at Scottsdale Healthcare, visit www.shc.org/cancer.
Reservations for the 34th annual Honor Ball are $500 per person or $1000 per couple; tables start at $7500. For more information, call 480-882-4510.
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