TOPSHAM – The American Cancer Society’s 30th annual Living with Cancer Conference will take place from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Augusta Civic Center.

This year’s theme, “Celebrating 30 Years of Information and Support … Hope for the Future,” is designed to provide participants with information on personal and medical topics to help bring hope and care to cancer patients and their families.

Attendees can participate in a variety of informative workshops, visit community resource exhibits and share similar experiences and stories with others touched by cancer.

Keynote speaker will be Dr. Carolyn Kaelin, founding director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a breast cancer surgeon, author and a breast cancer survivor who speaks from both sides of the stethoscope.

Workshop topics will include exercise for cancer patients, the importance of caregivers, new directions in lung and prostate cancer care and stress management. Presenters will include Maine physicians, American Cancer Society volunteers and other specialists. The patient panel will include cancer survivors from Ellsworth, Durham and Belfast who will share their personal stories.

Cancer patients and survivors and their family members pay no fee, for other attendees the fee is $30. To learn more about the conference, call Cheryl Tucker, American Cancer Society, 373-3709 or 800-227-2345.