Cancer Society’s Finish the Fight festival is Saturday

August 20, 2013 at 10:45a.m.

AUSTINTOWN

Doctor Gary K. Koski, Ph.D., an American Cancer Society research grantee in Kent State University’s Department of Biological Sciences, is the main speaker at the ACS Finish the Fight Festival which runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Austintown Township Park, 6000 Kirk Road.

Admission is free to the event, which includes children’s games, food, live music, crafts and vendors. Money raised benefit ACS research, education, advocacy and patient service programs.

Koski will kick off the festival at 11 a.m. with an explanation of the research his team is doing, which focuses on development of a cancer vaccine for all cancers with an emphasis on breast cancer. His research also is focused in the area of immunotherapy: the concept that the body’s own immune system can be brought into play to battle cancer.

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