The Group Room: Live from Paris The Group Room will broadcast a live bilingual transcontinental program from the American Hospital of Paris on Sunday, June 24, 2001, from 4-6 pm ET (1-3 pm PT; 22:00-00:00 CET). The program will focus on breast and prostate cancer, and will feature experts in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. This pioneering production may be the first time a live radio call-in show has been broadcast simultaneously in English and French from three cities on two continents. Selma R. Schimmel, host of The Group Room, founder and CEO of Vital Options International, and herself a breast cancer survivor, will join cancer specialists from the American Hospital of Paris and its sister institution in New York City, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and The Group Room’s medical experts from its Los Angeles studios. Please join us for this very special program, by radio or right here on the web!

		BIOSKETCH : Claude A. PLANCHON, M.D. Dr. Claude A. PLANCHON was born in France in 1949. He made his medical studies at the University René DESCARTES-PARIS V and supported his medical thesis in 1977 with Professor Maurice TUBIANA as a President, one of the most eminent French Oncologist, member of the French Academy of Medicine. He devotes himself very early to functional imagery , first in the field of interventional radiology, then in Nuclear Medicine. In 1975, he enters to the department of Professor Maurice TUBIANA to the GUSTAVE-ROUSSY Institute of Villejuif, most significant of the anti-cancer centers to France. There, he develops his knowledge in Biophysics and Medical Computing and becomes a specialist recognized in thyroid pathology; there, he has the exceptional opportunity to be able to collaborate with Professor Henri BISMUTH' team of Paul-BROUSSE Hospital in the first world hepatic transplantation. In 1975, he obtains the Saclay-Diploma of Studies relating to the applications with medical biology of the radionucleides and in 1977 he is graduated with the Saclay-Diploma like a Specialist in Nuclear Medicine. Leaving Villejuif, he enters the same year to the department of Professor Roger PEREZ, founder and head of the Nuclear Medicine Department of the American Hospital of Paris, from who he becomes one of the closest collaborators. There he improves in exploration of cerebral pathology and in particular for brain tumors, he develops the techniques of the bone scanning in parallel, not only in the field of cancer, but also with regard to sportive pathology. In 1985 he obtains the diploma of University Studies for Medical Oncology with the Faculty of Medicine Pierre & Marie CURIE- PARIS VI. Dr. C.A. PLANCHON is a member of the "Active Medical Staff" of the American Hospital of Paris since 1977; he is an active member of the Administration Council of the National Trade Union of Nuclear Medicine and belongs to many Scientific Societies like the French Society of Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, the French Society of Private Practice Oncology and the French Society for Protection against Radiation. He is also a scientific journalist and wrote many articles devoted Nuclear Medicine in collaboration with famous French oncologists; he is invited to congresses as well in Europe as on South-America. In September 2000, on holiday in Los Angeles, he met by chance of Mrs. Selma R. SCHIMMEL at a special event given within the framework of "Dance for Life" for which his American half-brother, the famous Danseur-Etoile Larrio EKSON, made a choreography "Running out of time". Dr. Claude A. PLANCHON likes to say: "I have found in Mrs. Selma R. SCHIMMEL an inspired and inspiring personality with an exceptional charisma who could certainly remove mountains…that explains why I adhered so quickly to the concepts of VITAL OPTIONS and decided to enter into the team, to facilitate her international implantation, in particular in France where our Judeo-Christian traditions firmly established constitute a natural barrier with the free expression of the patients suffering from cancer, that word still being consider like a taboo…". Dr. Claude A. PLANCHON worked this few past years in upgrading the possibilities in detection of tumors with Bone Single Emission Tomoscintigraphy and he is now working on the possibilities to develop PET-SCAN diffusion in France.