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Cancer Conversations at Fox Chase Cancer Center
Join us at Fox Chase Cancer Center for a series of conversations with authors, filmmakers and others about living with cancer.
View the trailer for Not As I Pictured
John Kaplan,
Photographer and Filmmaker:
Not As I Pictured
Thursday,
February 2, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Fox Chase Cancer Center Auditorium
Center Building
Fox Chase Cancer Center
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497
John Kaplan is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer who captured his journey with lymphoma. The result is Not As I Pictured, an autobiographical 54-minute film following his unexpected cancer journey. The film is presently airing on PBS stations nationwide.
Mitchell Smith, MD, PhD, Director of the Lymphoma Service at Fox Chase, will be introducing John Kaplan
Registration is required for these free Cancer Conversation events (seating is limited). Dessert reception to follow.
Humor is used throughout the film to give viewers an emotional break from the intensity of the cancer treatment process. This is from a section, animated in the film, that asks, "Just how does one photograph himself with cancer?" Kaplan is now is full remission and says he looks like himself again.
About John Kaplan
Although the topic is serious, Not As I Pictured is upbeat, very positive, and ends with John’s remission and return to health.
John is now more than two years into remission and feeling fine.
He is one of America's most accomplished photographers, having been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, POY National Newspaper Photographer of the Year, the Overseas Press Club Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant. He has been featured on the PBS' program, Now with Bill Moyers, on CNN, and on NPR's All Things Considered.
In addition to John sharing his inspiring message through film showings and speaking to patients, survivors, support groups, and oncology professionals, a touring photographic exhibition is also planned.
For more information, or to see the trailer, visit notasipictured.org
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Fox Chase Cancer Center is a short drive from Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and Jenkintown with plenty of free parking.
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Fox Chase Cancer Center is one of the leading cancer research and treatment centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as one of the nation's first cancer hospitals, Fox Chase was also among the first institutions to be designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1974. Fox Chase researchers have won the highest awards in their fields, including two Nobel Prizes. Fox Chase physicians are also routinely recognized in national rankings, and the Center's nursing program has received the Magnet status for excellence three consecutive times. Today, Fox Chase conducts a broad array of nationally competitive basic, translational, and clinical research, with special programs in cancer prevention, detection, survivorship, and community outreach. For more information, call 1-888-FOX-CHASE or 1-888-369-2427.
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