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Providence Experts Attend Survivorship Conference
 Roy Olpin and Cobie Whitten, Ph.D., from the Providence Regional Cancer System, recently attended a comprehensive three-day course on survivorship care. They were competitively selected from cancer settings across the United States to attend this course.
Olpin is senior director of Providence Oncology Services, while Dr. Whitten oversees the new Cancer Survivorship Pilot Program.
The primary goal of the course was to provide  interdisciplinary teams with information on survivorship care issues and resources to implement goals aimed at improving survivorship care in their cancer institutions. The City of Hope (COH) Comprehensive Cancer Center received a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct this course.
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