Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Feb 19, 2024

Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Feb 19, 2024

Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Feb 19, 2024

AnCan is grateful to the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Foundation Medicine, Janssen, Myriad Genetics, Myovant, Telix & Blue Earth Diagnostics.

If you missed our first 2024 webinar with GU med onc Dr. Oliver Sartor and nuclear medicine pioneer Dr. Phillip H. Kuo — “Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!” – watch it at https://ancan.org/webinar-radionuclide-diagnostics-theranostics-theory-and-clinical-practice-meet

AnCan respectfully notes that it does not accept sponsored promotion. Any drugs, protocols or devices recommended in our discussions 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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Editor’s Pick: ‘Anxious’ surveillance during IHT… & unconventional RNL treatment (rd)

Topics Discussed

darolutamide achieves undetectable status after many years; should he radiate L4 – ask his QB!; PSMA scans at low PSA levels; intermittent hormone therapy requires active surveillance… and anxiety for some; Ac225 Tx in Austria followed by Ac225+Lu177 and a PARP with no HRR mutation; another Gent remains undetectable; no evidence of PCa from scans but inferior blood counts; Newbie at the back end – 20 year survivor finally requires 2nd line anti-androgen

Chat Log

  • AnCan – rick

    sent: 6:34 PM

  • Jim Marshall, Alexandria, VA

    sent: 6:47 PM

    Even though I have been on Treatment Holiday for 21 months I still get my PSA and testosterone blood test every month. I feel like I am then proactive. jim Marshall

  • Jerry Grimes, Brighton, MI

    sent: 6:55 PM

    Hey all, gotta run. All the best!

  • Peter Kafka – Maui

    sent: 7:08 PM

    With all this movement in the nuclear medicine field, are there specialized Nuclear Oncologists now working at Centers of Excellence or is much of this being managed by GU Med Oncs or Radiation Oncs?

  • Len Sierra

    sent: 7:09 PM

    Peter, in many instances, nuclear medicine specialists are used.

  • Len Sierra

    sent: 7:19 PM

    The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is the European Union’s (EU) equivalent to the FDA. The EMA is a decentralized agency located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that evaluates, supervises, and monitors the safety of medicines for humans and animals in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). The FDA and the EMA work together to streamline efforts, share best practices, and promote human and animal health.

  • Len Sierra

    sent: 7:40 PM

    From Johns Hopkins: Blood cells are made in the bone marrow. The bone marrow is the soft, spongy material in the center of the bones. It produces about 95% of the body’s blood cells. Most of the adult body’s bone marrow is in the pelvic bones, breast bone, and the bones of the spine.

  • AnCan – rick

    sent: 7:58 PM

    Xtandi likely has the worst side effects

Webinar: Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!

Webinar: Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!

Webinar: Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!

Nuclear payloads, guided missiles, directed assassinations…not in global conflict or wars, but prostate cancer and what happens inside bodies of men getting radionuclide theranostics (treatment) and diagnostics (scanning) today.

Radionuclide treatment for prostate cancer is at least 10 years old – does that surprise you? Bayer’s Xofigo was approved in 2013 but adoption has been slow until recent FDA approvals of theranostics (treatment) viz. Pluvicto, and diagnostics (scans) like Illucix and Posluma.

Radionuclides are theory-intense with nuclear medicine doctors less exposed to treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Conversely, GU medical oncologists are less familiar with radionuclides than hormone and chemo-therapy.

Two global experts, GU medical oncologist Dr. Oliver Sartor and nuclear medicine guru, Dr. Philip Kuo will introduce radionuclide theranostics and diagnostics and discuss how the clinic and the theory intersect.

Learn about radionuclide medicine – how it works and what it can do for you! This information will help patients learn how to make sure your Genitourinary Medical Oncologist and Nuclear Medicine Doctor work in harmony.

 

Watch here:

 

 

Special thanks to our sponsors who made this webinar possible….

     

 

 

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer Virtual Support Group

Active Surveillance (AS) for low-risk prostate cancer presents its own challenges that are very different from other treatment protocols. This virtual group is for men and caregivers on or considering AS to treat their condition. New participants are given priority to discuss their situation.

1st, 2nd & 3rd Wednesdays & 4th Thursdays of each month at 8 pm EST/EDT (US)

Moderators: Ken Mason, Howard Wolinsky, Alexa Jett, Hugh Idstein.

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer Virtual Support Group

Active Surveillance (AS) for low-risk prostate cancer presents its own challenges that are very different from other treatment protocols. This virtual group is for men and caregivers on or considering AS to treat their condition. New participants are given priority to discuss their situation.

Wednesday evenings of each month at 8 pm EST/EDT (US)

Moderators: Ken Mason, Howard Wolinsky, Alexa Jett, Hugh Idstein.

Webinar: Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!

Webinar: Let’s Talk Medicare 2024

This could be scary…It’s almost open enrollment season for Medicare!

A dreaded time to receive multiple communications in untold ways that often read like a foreign language. It’s only fitting that we talked about it the day before Halloween.

Join AnCan as we bring experts Amanda Goodstadt, Esq. from Triage Cancer, and Medicare Insurance Broker Kim Umphres to explain all things confusing around 2024 Medicare insurance options, and make this enrollment season a little less spooky and intimidating.

Our panel will explain the whole menu from alphabet soup plans to doughnut holes! Learn the difference between Traditional and Advantage plans and if you can switch between them, what HMOs and PPOs mean, how to sign up to see any doctor anywhere and much more.

Featuring AnCan favorites, Dr. John, Sally Torgeson, Jim Schraidt, and Kim Stroeh, we’ll share some laughs and learn a lot as well.

 

 

Click here for a special handout from Triage Cancer with Medicare resources.

 

Special thanks to Bayer, Pfizer, Myovant Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson, Telix, and Blue Earth Diagnostics for sponsoring this webinar.

 

 

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