by Rick Davis | May 15, 2020 | Recent News, Advocacy, Cancer Resources, Health Resources, Men's Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Women's Breast Cancer
Congrats to AnCan Advisor and Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer Virtual Support Group Moderator, Howard Wolinsky, for receiving the Best In-depth Report or Series Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club for his article in Chicago Medicine on “The debate over gadolinium-based contrast agents”
For those who attend this group, they are well aware that gadolinium contrast is a frequent topic of conversation. This may have even spurred Howard into his excellent in-depth report on the dangers associated with the use of this scanning contrast.
Onward & upwards, Howard ….. keep generating that social profit!
by Rick Davis | Apr 23, 2020 | Advocacy, Blood Cancers, Brain Tumors, Cancer Caregivers, Cancer Resources, Complementary Medicine, Health Resources, Men 'Speaking Freely', Men's Breast Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Recent News, Sarcoidosis, Women's Breast Cancer
Some of you may already be aware of Janssen/J&J’s annual patient advocate conference,
HealtheVoices, that is usually by invitation only based on a competitive application process. This year’s pandemic has sent the Conference
virtual, and it is open to
ALL! The conference covers the spectrum of conditions from mental to physical, and from cancer to rare diseases.
#HealtheVoicesLIVE 2020 is this Saturday, April 25 starting from 11 am – 8.30 pm Eastern. You can find the full agenda and link to join
HERE. Feel free to pop in and out during the day and tune in to presentations and events of interest to each of you.There are presentations, interviews and even small group breakouts allowing you to interact with leading national advocates for differing conditions.
Please note the links to join change for the morning and afternoon sessions:
For the best experience, join the meeting via Google Chrome
I will be presenting in the 3rd Hour; the session starts at 1.30 pm Eastern and I am due up first as part of 4 flash sessions followed by a Q&A. I will be offering tips on virtual moderation – a skill many patient advocates have had to quickly familiarize themselves with in the past few weeks. But as you all know, we’ve been at this game for many years!!
Please join me and HeV, enjoy the conference, learn a little, and above all – stay safe, well and have fun!
Onward & upwards, rd
by Rick Davis | Apr 22, 2020 | Prostate Cancer, Brain Tumors, Cancer Resources, Men's Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Women's Breast Cancer
https://www.urotoday.com/recent-abstracts/urologic-oncology/prostate-cancer/120402-12th-international-symposium-on-focal-therapy-and-imaging-in-prostate-and-kidney-cancer.html
In the context of prostate cancer, newly diagnosed men with low and intermediate disease often consider focal therapy modes such as cryotherapy, HIFU or targeted radiation for intial treatment. And more frequently, we are seeing some of these modes employed for adjuvant and salvage therapy.
AnCan’s good friend, John Fortin, just published a short report on UroToday summarizing the findings from a Febraury 2020 Conference that considered focal therapy. This may well be of interest to other cancers, like ovarian and breast, where focal modes are also employed. John’s report linked above does not address follow-up treatment in the case of recurrent disease after intial treatment.
by Rick Davis | Mar 11, 2020 | Complementary Medicine, Prostate Cancer, Recent News
For our prostate cancer followers, patients & caregivers, PCRI announced yesterday that its mid-year one-day conference on Saturday, March 28 will now be held as a virtual gathering with a live FREE stream …. all you need do is register here.
The conference features as always the dynamic variety duo, Drs. Mark Moyad and Mark Scholz. They will be joined by 3 excellent speakers:
- GU Medical Oncologists, Dr. Evan YU from Seatle Cancer Alliance/ University of Washington Med School
- Radiation Oncologist, Dr. Jeffrey Demanes from UCLA
- Genomic specialist, Dr. Joannne Wiedhaas, UCLA
Each speaker will be followed by Q&A fielding your written questions that can be submitted ahead of time. And it will conclude with 90′ of Q&A with Moyad & Scholtz.
This is a terrific opportunity for you to ask the experts all those questions your own medical team has not answered completely and/or we are not fielding in one of our NINE, yes 9!, monthly VIRTUAL PC support groups. AND this crew will respond to personal situations and provide somewhat filtered medical advice that we cannot do.
That should cover it all, but just in case not, here again is the PCRI Conference website:
https://pcri.org/2020-midyear-update#myu-speakers-topics
See you there … O&U, rd
by Rick Davis | Mar 5, 2020
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. Click here for detailed information.
1st, 2nd & 3rd Wednesdays & 4th Thursdays of each month at 8 pm EST/EDT (US)
Moderators: Joe Gallo, Ken Mason, Howard Wolinsky, Alexa Jett, Hugh Idstein.
Co-sponsors: UsTOO
