President Brandon opened the meeting at 12:25 pm and Karen Nelson led the Pledge and Prayer.
 
ATTENDANCE: 36 members were in attendance which represents 46.75% of our membership.  We had 10 guests including our speaker, Dr Sabrina Martyr; UPMC employees Linda Campbell and Dr Benjamin Zigmond; MaryKay Kelly, guest of Mike Kelly; and 6 students of the month.
 
STUDENTS OF THE MONTH: Brandon asked the 6 students of the month to share what they learned by attending Rotary this month - Josh Huston, Hanover; Makenna Mummert,  and Christopher Nield, Delone; Abigail Zeigler, Caleb Kraft, Spring Grove; Alvin Lin, SouthWestern.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
- Christy Lucas - Roots for Boots has an event this weekend at Tri-Co south of Hanover.
 
- Christy Lucas and Brandon Gething - today is VietNam Veterans day - please remember all those brave men and women who served 
 
PROGRAM: Dr Sabrina Martyr, Md - UPMC Medical Oncology and Hematology
Dr .Martyr is a medical oncologist and hematologist with UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.  She is certified in hematology, medical oncology, and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.  Dr Martyr received her medical degree from Howard University of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Maine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, followed by her fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.  Dr Martyr's clinical interests include benign and malignant dermatology conditions, medical oncology, multiple myeloma, lymphomas, and hemoglobinopathies.

Dr Martyr entertained questions from the group such as:
- How has the pandemic affected treatments?
- Why does chemotherapy hurt our healthy cells swell as cancerous cells?
- How long does a patient undergo treatment?
- Screenings pick up some cancers but not all, what does the future hold for screening more cancers?
- How close is a cure for cancer and eradication of cancer?
- How do you decide on a course of treatment?
- What is immunotherapy vs chemotherapy?
- Is immunotherapy used in a preventative way ?
- How much do you attribute nutrition to causing cancer or as helping to cure cancer?
- Social work aspect of dealing with the healing process.
 
Dr Martyr did an excellent job of answering questions in an informed and caring manner.  We much appreciated having Dr Martyr in to talk about cancer with us.
 
 
 
NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM:  MARK ALBRIGHT - ROTARY CLASSIFICATION SPEECH