For a comprehensive list detailing the benefits of exercise for other conditions and specific cancers, please click here for the full list from MedaFit.
Donna Wilson, a clinical nurse specialist and fitness expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Integrative Medicine Center, urges cancer survivors to include regular physical activity in their post-treatment plan.
Studies have shown that regular physical activity – including aerobic activity, weight training, core exercises, and stretching – can help to reduce the impact of cancer treatments on bones, muscles, energy level, and mood. Exercise has also been shown to increase survival and decrease the risk of a cancer recurrence.
In her practice, Ms. Wilson assesses each patient’s fitness level before developing a customized physical activity program. In this video, she demonstrates a variety of techniques that patients and survivors can use to improve breathing, flexibility, muscle strength, and balance.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation Men’s Retreat was held in Washington DC back in 2012. It features very candid conversation about how prostate cancer impacts your life physically and emotionally.
(NB Some of the webinars/videos may require sign up first; all are free)
General
UsTOO’s Prostate Cancer Pathways for Patients and Caregivers is a wonderful video resource of a day-long conference covering everything encountered along your journey: diagnosis, treatment, side effects, genetics, sex and intimacy, the psychosocial impacts of prostate cancer and so much more. Lengthy, however easy to find segments of interest 3-4 minutes long. But be forewarned: you’re likely to find it so interesting, you’ll watch the entire webcast!
My Prostate Cancer Road Map is a website softly sponsored by Janssen Biotech, Inc., makers of Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) that helps men make sense of living with advanced prostate cancer.
See our own Board Member, Rob Barniskis, featured in a wonderful video.
The Man Junk Project is an animation drawn and narrated by our highly talented Board Chair, John Teisberg. It explains how a man’s ‘bits’ work from the inside out. For those puzzled by seminal vesicles, urethers, nerve bundles and more, check out this simple and amusing video! Click here or the highlighted link above.
And to see the life size Man Junk Contraption demonstrated at PCRI 2017 click here.
Active Surveillance: Who is the Right Patient? – Dr. Matt Cooperberg, arguably the world’s leading expert on active surveillance (AS), speaks with Dr. Chuck Ryan on several key aspects of AS. (video)
Prostate Cancer News, Reviews & Views – a blog edited by one of the most knowledgeable peer advocates, Allen Edel; especially when it comes to any matter addressing radiation in all its forms.
New Prostate Cancer Infolink – stay up to the minute with the most pertinent developments in the prostate cancer world. Mike Scott is exceptionally knowledgeable and this is a great information resource for all matters PCa.
Radionuclides Drs. Chuck Ryan & Oliver Sartor discuss guided radionuclide treatments – radium, lutetium etc
Sequencing Advanced Treatments – Drs. Chuck Ryan, Neil Shore and Alicia Morgans discuss new drugs – like darolutamide AND the timing for Provenge (Sipileucel-T) and Xofigo (Radium 223)
Life on ADT – Canadian based, CUA endorsed educational website providing great resources for men on ADT
Complementary Medicine – exercise, nutrition, stress management & more!
Diet, exercise and stress, three very powerful components to manage prostate that are within our own control. Studies in the past 10 years have provided significant empirical support for the role of diet and nutrition.
UCSF, its clinicians and researchers have been in the forefront of this effort. As well as personally consulting with thousands of prostate cancer patients and their caregivers, Greta Macaire, the senior resident dietitian at UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, has presented monthly on nutrition and PCa for more than 10 years.
Her presentation will address:
Balanced diet and nutrition for living with prostate cancer
Greta Macaire is an oncology dietitian with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She helps patients with nutrition guidelines for specific cancers, supportive nutrition during treatment, and optimal healthy eating patterns to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and maximize quality of life. Macaire is a Certified Specialist in Oncology Nutrition (CSO), the highest credential given to registered dietitians for expertise in oncology nutrition.
Macaire received her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Arts degrees in nutrition and dietetics from San Francisco State University. She completed her dietetic internship through San Francisco State University and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
For more on Greta read this UCSF Spotlight article.
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