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!
On July 28th, we had the pleasure of having Michael Bihovsky!
Michael shared his award-winning film and musical theater works, ranging from Les Mis parodies to full musicals about neuroplasticity to his brand new music video, Paperweight, which documents the COVID-19 pandemic experience through the lens of disability. Through this wide range of creations, Michael demonstrated how he has created music and art whose poignancy (and comedy) shines through not merely despite his struggles with the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, but because of those struggles.
Watch this incredible performance here:
To SIGN UP for any of our AnCan Virtual Support group reminders, visit our Contact Us page.
On Aug 4th, Dr. Martin Tenniswood(Chief Scientific Officer – miR Scientific) spoke at our Active Surveillance Virtual Support Group with a special presentation titled “The Future of Liquid Biopsies in Active Surveillance”
Dr. Tenniswood is the co-founder of miR Scientific, which is developing a new liquid biopsy known as Sentinel. He has been searching for the “Holy Grail,” a liquid biopsy for prostate cancer, throughout his 40-year career. He spoke about his search and research in this arena.
We want to thank Dr. Tenniswood for answering questions!
To view the slides from this presentation, click here.
For information on our peer-led video chat ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE PROSTATE CANCER VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUP, click here.
To SIGN UP for the Group or any other of our AnCan Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
‘For the Embr hot flash control gizmo, visit https://myrcc.redcapcloud.com/?#join=… if you signed up and have not heard back from Embr, make sure you signed your Informed Consent. Check your email OR call Embr.
Editor’s Pick: The importance of having a strong GU med onc to quarterback your treatment is revealed when a man finds himself shunted from trial to trial. rd)
Topics Discussed
Dealing with another recurrence after 20 yrs – can you radiate ribs?; adding back a 2nd lin AR after brief holiday; salvage RT working; low PSA shows no PSMA result; HDR procedure; coming up; choosing the right 2nd line anti-androgen; back door Nubequa via Technetium 99 scan; find strong GU med onc to QB your treatment to prevent succession of trials; debulk primary?; one too many opinions???
Chat Log
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 5:19 PM: Dr. Chadha is Hem/Onc with some interests in GU, but not a GU specialist
Larry Fish (to Everyone): 5:22 PM: ? if psma shows spread to bone – why plan to radiate lymph again – before results of ADT are in, etc.
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 5:29 PM: If It were me, I’d go to Dr. Jinsong Zhang at Moffett. He is trained in GU with good credetials.
Rick Davis (to Everyone): 5:30 PM: We know men who have seen Chahoud and are happy with him
Bill Franklin (to Everyone): 5:31 PM: I know two individuals who have gone to Dr. Julio Pow-Sang at Moffitt. Also GU with good credentials.
Rick Davis (to Everyone): 5:33 PM: Pow Sang is a urologist
Bill Franklin (to Everyone): 5:35 PM: Pow Sang is Department Chair of the Genitourinary Oncology Program at Moffitt. I know him from that aspect and assumed he was a GU.
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 5:53 PM: Jimmy G, Carl said he will pay you in grapefruit currency!
Jim Greenfield (to Everyone): 5:55 PM: Ok but the inlfation is murdurous these days
Alan Moskowitz (to Everyone): 5:58 PM: Have to leave now. take care everyone.
Ted Healy (to Everyone): 6:21 PM: Anyone visiting Portland, please do touch base with me at phoenix4357@gmail.com . Absolutely!
Bruce Bocian (to Everyone): 6:30 PM: None at all, .20, .18, .24, .27 . Have to run, thanks for doing all you do!
Joe (to Everyone): 6:47 PM: Gents, great to see y’all again. Gotta run. Thanks all. Joe
James Schraidt (to Everyone): 7:06 PM: Gotta go. Best to all.
Bill Franklin (to Everyone): 7:13 PM: I’m up very early tomorrow morning so I’ve got to go. Take care all.
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 7:14 PM: Also must close out, guys. See y’all next week!
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 7:16 PM: Me too. My appointment is a 715am. Good call.
Dennis McGuire (to Everyone): 7:19 PM: where did Antonarakis go ?
Jake (to Everyone): 7:20 PM: University of Minnesota, 1 September
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 7:21 PM: The NIH trial that Brian is talking about combines taxol with two anti-immune antibodies.
David Plunkett, KCMO (to Everyone): 7:24 PM: I’ll try again next week.
On July 22nd, we had so much fun once again with our very own Hannah Garrison (Artist, MS activist, and moderator for our MS virtual support group) lead our appropriately titled…”Art With Hannah Garrison“! It has a Saturday Night Live ring to it, don’t you think? She was requested to teach something relaxing and summer-y, and did she deliver!
We created an absolutely beautiful dusk beach setting, that is begging for a pineapple drink with a little umbrella in your hand. Last time we had an event to celebrate MS Awareness Month, but this time all were welcome. We saw members from our Blood Cancers, Prostate Cancer, Thyroid Cancer, MS Group, and more!
I promise this is SO easy and relaxing, so grab some supplies and have an hour of creative relaxation.
Supplies:
Acrylic paint or watercolor paint. (It will be watered down, so it doesn’t matter!) Colors – blue or aqua / dark blue / orange/ pink / purple. (colored pencils were also successfully used in this art project!)
Paint brush – round or flat.
Black crayon, but any dark color will be ok!
Water
Napkins
If you have any suggestions, or would 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.
