New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance Welcomes New Participants and Affiliate

September 2, 2010

The New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance, Executive Board of Directors voted to approve Itzhak Nir, M.D and Stephen Lu, M.D. from the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, James Lin, M.D. from New Mexico Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Jeffrey Dorf, M.D. Chest Medicine of New Mexico, PC as participants.
Additionally, Prostate Cancer Support Association of New Mexico was approved as Affiliate Participants. Affiliate Participants are groups involved with cancer treatment, research, support and education. Affiliates work with NMCCA’s physician participants to increase knowledge of the role research may play in cancer treatments.
NMCCA looks forward to working with these new board members and to the expertise that they bring to the organization.
New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, offers New Mexico cancer patients and physicians access to the most up-top-date clinical research studies in cancer treatment. Our network of the major healthcare systems in Northern, Central, and Southern New Mexico and most of the community oncology professionals allows cancer patients to receive quality healthcare locally while increasing the knowledge of cancer care globally.


Contact:

Debbie Putt, Communications and Outreach Manager
New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance
505-925-0365

September 2010 NMCCA Board of Directors Meeting