Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PrCa Video Chat, Sep 23, 2025

UPCOMING PRESENTATION

Dr. JONATHAN EPSTEIN IS BACK for an AnCan webinar on Tue, Sep 30 at 8.pm Eastern!
“Interpreting Prostate Needle Biopsies in Today’s World”
Bx explained from early AS to advanced Pr Ca inc. AI – with lotsa time for Q&A.
Register at https://ow.ly/PpoX50WVsJ4

NEW monthy GAY & BISEXUAL MEN’S Prostate Cancer Group starting Tue, Oct 14.
Sign up at https://ancan.org/contact-us/

Hear John Maxwell on Solo Arts Heal https://youtu.be/UQuMUm6HHqU and buy Hammering Nails for AnCan’s fundraiser https://www.amazon.com/Hammering-Nails-Poems-strange-topics/dp/B0BNJHYVG3?mc_cid=8e4adc6969&mc_eid=838454d636

AnCan thanks the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Novartis, Johnson and Johnson, Myriad Genetics, Telix, Blue Earth Diagnostics and Foundation Medicine.
Views expressed in this Recording are solely the opinion of AnCan Foundation, our Moderators and Participants.

AnCan does not accept sponsored promotion. Any drugs, protocols or devices discussed are based solely on anecdotal peer experience or clinical evidence.
AnCan cannot and does not provide medical advice. We encourage you to discuss anything you hear in our sessions with your own medical team.

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All AnCan’s groups are free and drop-in … join us in person sometime! You can find out more about our 12 monthly prostate cancer meetings at https://ancan.org/prostate-cancer/ Sign up to receive a weekly Reminder/Newsletter for this Group or others at https://ancan.org/contact-us/

Join our other free and drop in groups:
Men (Only) Speaking Freely…1st & 3rd Thursdays @ 8.00 pm Eastern https://ancan.org/men-speaking-freely/
Veterans Healthcare Navigation… 1st & 3rd Tuesdays @ 8.00 pm Eastern Schmier Room https://ancan.org/veterans/
Veterans Speaking freely… 4th Tuesday @ @ 8.00 pm Eastern Schmier Room

Editor’s Pick: Hiding in plain sight, a new tumor docs failed to mention. (bn)

Topics Discussed

Upcoming AnCan group; newly diagnosed with a spot on his spine — consider zapping both prostate and tumor; what’s happening with Medicare and telehealth?; a Pluvicto update after his first treatment; after focal therapy, docs kept quiet about a new tumor, and it may now be escaping the prostate; lots of metastasis, PSA in the thousands, but he got doublet therapy, not triplet; a 0.04 PSA rise isn’t worrisome; he’s offered Clomid to raise testosterone (why not just take testosterone?); massive sweating spells that far exceed hot flashes; prior mastectomy complicates planned radiation for sore nipples; thanks to John Maxwell for giving AnCan the proceeds of his poetry collection during September; great experience from Dr. Guercio in Rochester; ready to shift his care to a top NYC hospital.

Chat Log

Ben Nathanson · 6:16 PM
NY Times: In Chicago, a New Approach to Gay and Bisexual Men With Prostate Cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/health/prostate-gay-sex-cancer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE8.Ij-J.lRa7OMYAXY5h&smid=url-share Allen Edel: Gay men should never have a prostatectomy https://www.prostatecancer.news/2021/

AnCan – rick · 6:29 PM
Kevin courtney is the GU med onc

AnCan – rick · 6:29 PM
at UTSW that I ws truying to recall.

Alfredo in Houston · 6:31 PM
https://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/131906/kevin-courtney.html

Alfredo in Houston · 6:32 PM
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/doctor/eleni-efstathiou/

AnCan – rick · 6:39 PM
PROMISE Trial https://www.prostatecancerpromise.org/?utm_campaign=ANCAN&utm_medium=link&utm_source=Webinar

Alfredo in Houston · 7:03 PM
https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/2980/todd-matthew-morgan-md

AnCan – rick · 7:27 PM
Interpreting Prostate Needle Biopsies in Today’s World” with global expert Dr.Jonathan Epstein , Advanced Uropathology Register at https://ow.ly/PpoX50WVsJ4 – free.

Jim Marshall, Veteran, Alexandria, VA · 7:28 PM
https://ancan.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ece3f3da90f82cb974b407396&id=9b15081950&e=7e455a27bb For Veterans Speaking Freely. Jim

AnCan – rick · 7:29 PM
AnCan Schmier Room – https://www.gotomeet.me/ancanschmier

Don Rogers · 8:08 PM
anastrozole 1 mg twice a week

AnCan – rick · 8:23 PM
casodex

Frank Ciambra · 8:35 PM
i just did my 7th pluvicto last wednesday i am recovering well and ave atrip planned to see my son and his family this weekend and will be jammig music tommorow night

Frank Ciambra · 8:38 PM
im going to see my son who recently retirrd from the teams in va beach mygrandsons have bb tornaments this weekend

AnCan – rick · 8:42 PM
Dr. McHugh, Dr. Rathkopf, Dr. Autio

AnCan – rick · 8:44 PM
geenitourinary (GU) medical oncologist

AnCan – rick · 8:48 PM
Embr watch