Art Class was back in session with Hannah teaching us about fall trees, including fun add ons to your fall escape like owls, squirrels, and a swing.
Anything goes here! While markers were the main medium, we heard about coffee, soy sauce, and gum as potential art supplies.
You’ll need
Paper
Your choice of medium – markers, pen, pencil, colored pencils, paint, watercolor pencils, anything that can mark.
This art class was also in loving honor of our AnCan art friend, George Degnon, and we are holding his family tightly in our hearts. May his memory always be a blessing.
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Oct 11, 2022
All AnCan’s groups are free and drop-in … join us in person sometime! You can find out more about our 12 per month 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: Drug holiday…but what about that rising testosterone? (bn)
Topics Discussed
Longtime friend remembers John Birch; a thank-you from John’s wife; two more passings — George Degnon and Dave Myers; Dr. E patient wonders what’s next after discontinuing abi; newcomer gets care downstate when Dr. Antonarakis is in his backyard; mysterious red marks following chemo; why is genetic testing useful?; jitters as testosterone rises on a drug holiday; dosing at mealtime to economize on abi; PSMA ordered but PSA is undetectable; helping a new BRCA patient get help at UCSF.
Chat Log
Dennis McGuire (to Everyone): 6:04 PM: she is on
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 6:59 PM: Dr. Emanuel Antonarakis https://med.umn.edu/bio/hematology-oncology-and-transp/emmanuel-antonarakis
Jim B (to Everyone): 7:27 PM: Hi Bob, I think I am feeling much better today. BTW the chemo sores appeared almost immediately in my case and went away very soon after the steroid cream. The name of the cream is Clobetasol Propionate Cream.
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 7:37 PM: Low dose Abi reference:
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 7:37 PM: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941614/
Herbert Geller (to Everyone): 8:00 PM: Gotta go. See you all on Monday.
AnCan – rick (to Organizer(s) Only): 8:00 PM: Great job tonight getting through everyone, Peter.
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 8:02 PM: Chromogranin A (CGA) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) levels are biomarkers for NEPC. Also, they are synaptophysin positive. DLL3 (Delta-like Ligand 3) is positive in 76% of NEPC.
Summer of Art – September 15th Class – Oil Pastels
On September 15th, Hannah Garrison (Artist, MS activist, and moderator for our MS virtual support group) brought her magic back to AnCan. We made different types of Owls with oil pastels, and in keeping true to the education part in our tagline (Advocacy Support Education), we learned a lot about Owls. You can click here to learn some of the facts we went over! We encourage you to name your owl, and make it as colorful as you’d like!
What you will need:
Oil Pastels
Paper
Pastel Blender
Paper Towel/Napkin
Watch the class here:
Funding for this project was provided by the HealtheVoices Impact Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, which was funded by a contribution from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Would you like your art featured in the AnCan Art Gallery? please email me at alexa (at) ancan.org!
To SIGN UP for any of our AnCan Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
Summer of Art – August 30 Class – Watercolor Pencils
On August 30th, we had so much fun once again with our very own Hannah Garrison (Artist, MS activist, and moderator for our MS virtual support group). Hannah taught us in the ins and outs of watercolor pencils, and also showed how basic scribbling can create beautiful things!
Funding for this project was provided by the HealtheVoices Impact Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, which was funded by a contribution from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Would you like your art featured in the AnCan Art Gallery? please email me at alexa (at) ancan.org!
To SIGN UP for any of our AnCan Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Aug 9, 2022
AnCan APOLOGIZES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE FROM DOWNTIME ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE END OF JULY. AS A RESULT WE ARE NOW SWITCHING THE HOST.
Check out our NEW AnCan Veterans Support Group – all conditions, all genders … with the purpose of helping Vets navigate their healthcare, benefits, and disabilties no matter their Provider! https://ancan.org/veterans/
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: Libido … from a Care Partners pespective – and lots about Pluvicto (rd)
Topics Discussed
BRCA Newbie overly concerned about cachexia; combining institutions for Tx; Pluvicto supply issues … again!; does Pluvicto obscure X-rays?; Pluvicto side effects; blood thinning problem; Ports – Y/N; bone density on ADT; ONJ; not so quiet on the Eastern Front; reading PSMA scans; after a spike, abi continues to work; Provenge reconsidered … and pursued; relugolix + darolutamide combo; libido – from carepartners PoV; PSMA screening threshold
Chat Log
Mike Yancey (to Everyone): 3:04 PM: I enjoyed speaking with you too. Had by Pluvicto this morning…….
Rich Jackson (to Everyone): 3:06 PM: https://ancan.org/veterans/
Russ Strehlow (to Everyone): 4:10 PM: How do you spell that? * bone strengthener
Ben Nathanson (to Everyone): 4:11 PM: Denosumab
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 4:21 PM: XGEVA® is a 120-mg SC injection administered once every 4 weeks 1 The mean elimination half-life of XGEVA® was 28 days. Having said that, I believe most medoncs give Xgeva once every 3 months.
George Rovder Arlington VA (to Everyone): 4:31 PM: 🙂
Bob G. Philadelphia (to Everyone): 4:59 PM: According to the literature, half life of Xgeva may be 28 days, but the drug stays in the body for 140 days. So, I guess every 3 mo. would work, at least in the beginning.
Ancan – rick (to Everyone): 5:03 PM: Saving Your Sex LIfe
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 5:04 PM: by john mulhall @ MSKCC; on Amazon
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 5:04 PM: doi: 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000190. Maintaining intimacy for prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy Richard J Wassersug 1
Herb Geller (to Organizer(s) Only): 5:14 PM: Gotta go. Sorry!
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 5:15 PM: Thanks everyone – Talk to all next week!
Bob G. Philadelphia (to Everyone): 5:19 PM: Thanks
