SEQUIM — Nobel Prize winner Lee Hartwell saluted the Olympic Medical Center’s new cancer care center as part of efforts that “offer tremendous new hope for cancer patients.”
Hartwell, a professor of genetics and medicine at the University of Washington and president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, was the keynote speaker at OMC’s “Building Hope Gala” fund-raising dinner Saturday night at SunLand Golf and Country Club.
Scheduled to open on North Fifth Avenue in Sequim in 2003, the cancer center will have a state-of-the-art linear accelerator that will allow advanced radiation treatments.
Proceeds from the black-tie dinner, planned as an annual event, will be used to help equip a patient-support resource center at the facility with books, videos and computer stations for Internet research.
To keep costs of the dinner to a minimum, OMC cancer care nurses volunteered to be the food and drink servers.
More than 200 persons attended. Dinner was $125 a plate, with some businesses and individuals sponsoring tables for $1,000 to $5,000. KOMO-TV weathercaster Steve Pool served as master of ceremonies.
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