July 14, 2005--Lighting up radiation-resistant tumor regions, treating lung tumors with "4D" protons, and promising first images from an alternative to mammography are among the topics to be presented at a press luncheon for the 47th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Devoted to the scientific and professional tracks of the meeting, the press luncheon will take place on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 between 12 PM-1:30 in room 401 of the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, located at Pike Street and 7th Avenue. Members of the news media may contact Ben Stein at bstein@aip.org to attend the luncheon. Additional tips on the science program can be found at http://www.aapm.org/meetings/05AM/VirtualPressRoom/

The press luncheon will begin with an introduction to medical physics and the meeting by Howard Amols, the current president of AAPM, and the two scientific program co-directors, James Balter of the University of Michigan and Jeff Siewerdsen of the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto. Jerry White, the co-organizer of the meeting's professional track, is scheduled to describe professional sessions that cover topics of public policy interest, such as new procedures designed to reduce medical errors and ways to improve preparedness for radiological emergencies.

Then, four speakers who represent some of the world's top experts in medical physics will present scientific topics that contain some of the most newsworthy results at the meeting:

I . BREAST CT CLINICAL TRIALS
Speaker: John Boone, University of California, Davis, jmboone@ucdavis.edu
John Boone of UC-Davis will present some of the first images from human clinical trials of breast CT imaging, a potentially significant improvement over traditional mammography that aims to catch breast cancer
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Contact: Ben Stein
bstein@aip.org
301-209-3091
American Institute of Physics
14-Jul-2005

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