Kudos to Peter Kafka, our Board Chair, and our partner, Pacific Cancer Foundation , featured in this week-end’s article about AnCan! Enough from me – the article says it all!
O&U ….
Our wonderful webdesigner/master and Advisory Board member, Jackie Zimmerman, recently revived her own blog. In her most recent entry, Jackie makes some pertinent observations about life as a patient advocate ….. worth a read! Btw, for those of us older than a certain age, ‘OG’ means ‘original’.
O&U Jackie … thanks as always!
Listen to Jake Hannam outline the groups we run at AnCan.
And visit our YouTube Channel, if you want to listen to any recorded groups ….. for prostate cancer, MS, or sarcoidosis as well as excellent webinars on various topics like diet, exercise and genome sequencing.
Happy holidays … onward & upwards!
Whilst trying to clear my e-mail backlog before year-end, I came across this article from NYU Langone Health Center with the self-explanatory title, “Breast Cancer Screening Found Effective in Men at High Risk for the Disease.”.
In deference to MBCC and our male breast cancer group, that is currently on holiday hiatus and restarts in January, I am posting it. Men with pertinent risk factors like a BRCA mutation, family history, or Ashkenazi ancestry should take particular note.
O&U ….
Our good AnCan friend, medical journalist Howard Wolinsky, has published an article in the magazine, Chicago Medicine investigating the controversial contrast agent gadolinium used in MRI scanning. Read it here.
This topic is often discussed in AnCan’s Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer Group. Congrats, Howard – c’mon back to our virtual groups to keep us informed!
One of AnCan’s favorite doctors, who we are privileged to name on our Advisory Board, is palliative care specialist, BJ Miller. I have had the wonderful fortune to work with BJ for 10 years or so, and know first hand how he has provided lifesaving support to a number of our participants treated at UCSF, both physically and mentally!
BJ is an extraordinary physician with an equally extraordinary story. He is a triple amputee – prior to med school, and if you listen to his interview today with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air you will learn how that career decision came about.
What Terry failed to mention is that BJ’s Ted Talk has very nearly 10 million views since first being posted in 2015 – now that’s remarkable in itself! He has just published a new book with Shoshana Berger, A Beginner’s Guide To The End that I am currently reading.and recommend.