Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Mar 4, 2024
AnCan is grateful to the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Foundation Medicine, Janssen, Myriad Genetics, Myovant, Telix & Blue Earth Diagnostics.
View AnCan’s patient-centered selection of papers and presentations from ASCO GU 2024, one of the top conferences on prostate cancer treatment: • ASCO GU 2024 conference highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YweU8hjA0Lw&t=2s
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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AnCan’s Prostate Cancer Forum is back (https://ancan.org/forums). If you’d like to comment on anything you see in our Recordings or read in our Reminders, just sign up and go right ahead. You can also click on the Forum icon at the top right of the webpage.
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/
Editor’s Pick: Here’s how to investigate if there’s a personalized/precision treatment for you (rd)
Topics Discussed
Exhaustive personalized/precision treatment pursuit; two successive Gents show us opposite sides of how a GU med onc beats a community practitioner; monotherapy enzalutamide; two more Gents manage their prostate cancer but not their heart issues; Dr. E is frank with an advanced patient but doesn’t reveal her cards just yet; our Gent thinks Guardant shows ‘weird’ results… or maybe they’re not so weird?; Pluvicto trumps olaparib in research and in practice; should spot RT metastatic directed therapy yield to systemic hormone treatment?; understanding the FDG scan
Chat Log
Jimmy Greenfield
sent: 6:22 PM
Mitoxantrone plus prednisone was previously accepted as standard chemotherapy for this stage of disease; however, docetaxel-based regimens have been shown to both palliate symptoms and prolong survival in hormone refractory prostate cancer.t.net
sent: 7:20 PM
Thank you, Rick, Dr. Bob, Len, and all, for a helpful discussion
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
We’re back in action this 2024 with a fabulous guest, Ursa Miles!
Ursa is a performer and author from the Ozarks currently based out of Chicago. Her work has appeared on stage at the International Storytelling Center (through Jonesborough Storytellers Guild), The Mountain Makins Festival, Big Muddy New Play Festival, and This Much is True. Her book Passive Aggressive Fables for Adults is available wherever books are sold. Ursa is also a survivor of proxy supraventricular tachycardia who lives with neurocardiogenic syncope, hypoglycemia, and hypermobility disorder. She loves cheesecake.
Ursa tells stories about maintaining relationships with her passions for the outdoors and the arts while navigating her life as a heart and neurological patient.
Wild animals such as deer, bears, and raccoons make appearances. Oh my! You’ll be captivated the entire show.
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
Avesha recently returned to her hometown of Chicago, where she has developed a passion for storytelling and the community surrounding it. During her twenty-two years in Los Angeles, she quickly ditched a legal career to put her whole heart and soul into arts and crafts. She spent ten years as a professional photographer before taking a risk to turn her childhood passion into a new career: ceramics. She founded a pottery studio and humbly and gratefully ran it full-time for eight years, crafting housewares and, more recently, whimsical gnomes. Now, she is counting the days until she can escape the city and start a small homestead, complete with chickens and goats.
She is deeply committed to speaking truth to story and bringing awareness to mental health and trauma-informed, shared human experiences. To her, connection is everything, to be human is to have trauma, and to heal, we first need to learn how to feel. She holds an MA in Spiritual Psychology, is trained in many healing arts, and was certified recently as a Breathwork Facilitator and Reiki Master.
Avesha will take us on a journey into the complex love between her and her father. She’ll tell of the time when her dad selflessly traveled to care for her when she was bedridden with meningitis. Years later, she found out that he had unexpectedly died alone, estranged from his relationships. She’ll tell the story of caring for the aftereffects of his life and continuing the journey of a relationship that still grows and heals through forgiveness, writing, music, and the love of nature he instilled in her.
Here at AnCan, we like to highlight the perspectives of every person that enters our virtual “door”, so to speak. That includes religious perspectives; we are SO proud of how diverse our community is. So, as such, these views aren’t an official AnCan viewpoint.
Now that that’s out of the way, we just thought we would share a more religious perspective on a person’s cancer journey. In her blog, Stingray of Sunshine, author Dana Hendershot asks the question, “If it is truly a God blessing that my cancer was found early, then I also have to believe that God did NOT bless the person whose cancer wasn’t caught early.”
Author, and cancer survivor, Dana Hendershot, goes into depth about those words and phrases that others might deem comforting to someone going through cancer. Phrases like “God has his reasons” are the opposite of comforting for her.
CLICK HERE to read Hendershot’s blog post about her “Theological Quandary”
No matter our religious (or nonreligious) perspective, these sentiments may be felt by many in our community – regardless of which illness you may have.
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Sep 4, 2023
AnCan is grateful to the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Foundation Medicine, Pfizer, Janssen, Myriad Genetics, Myovant, Telix & Blue Earth Diagnostics.
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.
AnCan’s Prostate Cancer Forum is back (https://ancan.org/forums). If you’d like to comment on anything you see in our Recordings or read in our Reminders, just sign up and go right ahead. You can also click on the Forum icon at the top right of the webpage.
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/
Editor’s pick: Five of our Regulars wrestle with recurrence this week; and one more is his own best advocate to get a scan(rd)
Topics Discussed
Eminent internist handles Gleason 4+5 diagnosis well; recurrence points to doublet therapy; abiraterone can result in cardio/BP issues; innovative GU med onc addresses lung spots with switching meds before trying RT; Gent finds his own NIH trial to his doc’s chagrin; T. flows back well post Orgovyx; PSMA scan shows oligoMx recurrence – AnCan reassures anxious Gent; with too many lesions, spot RT may yield to chemo; finally feeling better post prednisone; enzalutamide makes another man dizzy; doc agrees on FDG PET for concordance with PSMA but shies away for Payer reasons; neuroendocrine blood markers; Jimmy G remembers Jimmy B. – and Gent shares his Merkel Cell history.
Thanks for those private messages to me about being afraid. I can’t seem to reply privately so thanks everyone!
Len Sierra sent · 7:18 PM
According to Dr. Karim Fizazi, Darolutamide was not associated with a higher incidence of seizures, falls, fractures, cognitive disorder, or hypertension than placebo.
