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.
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Sep 5, 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: Great input this week from Advisory Board Member, Richard Wassersug PhD. And right at he end – maybe a touch of African Waterways – ‘De Nile’! (rd)
Topics Discussed
Stick or twist on RT for longtime recurrent older Gent; a similar Peer Survivor comments; man with cribriform intraductal faces immediate recurrence; starting Prolia; leg pains from ADT; Theraworx; looking at IHT; steady as she goes; MSI-H man asks about Immunex test; abi added to treatment but maybe daro would work; is Clinical Trial failing or succeeding?; aggressive disease recurs on Pylarify 3yrs after Tx ends – but man asks if it’s a false positive.
Chat Log
Richard Wassersug (to Everyone): 5:18 PM: Or there were only 6 cores taken
JEFFERSON DURYEE (to Everyone): 7:00 PM: OP GU PROSTATE STUDY IGUP20133 ETRUMADENT ZIMBERELIMAB DOCETAXEL PETER JAY VAN VELDHUIZEN,MD MY CURRENT CLINICAL TRIAL TEN MONTHS THEY ADDED 3 MORE MONTHS YR OLD ORCHIECTOMY A YR A GO PSA HAS RISEN TO 7.006 TESTERONE LESS THAN 5*
Frank Fabish – Columbus OH (to Everyone): 7:04 PM: Got to go guys. Thanks for listening.
Thomas Jacobsen – CO (to Everyone): 7:05 PM: Thanks everyone. Gotta go.
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 7:07 PM: Have to drop. Another great discussion. Glad I could contribute! See you next week!
Richard Wassersug (to Everyone): 7:23 PM: Sorry all. I have to go.
Bob G. Philadelphia (to Everyone): 7:25 PM: Time for me to go. Thanks.
Ben Nathanson (to Everyone): 7:27 PM: Good night, George – good to see you again
George Rovder Arlington VA (to Everyone): 7:27 PM: Good night friends. Stay well.
JEFFERSON DURYEE (Private): 7:31 PM: TY AND GOOD NIGHT
We had a fascinating webinar on August 29th, a debate on whether transrectal biopsies or transperineal biopsies are better for prostate cancer patients.
Don’t know the difference? No problem, this webinar will give lots of food for thought, and plenty to take back to the doctor’s office with you!
Deborah Kaye, MD, Assistant Professor Duke University Division of Urology and Duke Clinical Research Institute Margolis Policy Center, argued for transrectal biopsies. Arvin George, MD, a urologic surgeon specializing in the diagnosis and management of genitourinary cancers at University of Michigan Health, argued for transperineal procedures.
We have been reading all your feedback and taking it to heart, you want more information on this topic. To quote Rick Davis- “we hear ya!!”, and we are working on it.
Watch here:
Special thanks to Janssen, Pfizer, Bayer, Foundation Medicine, and Advanced Accelerator Applications for sponsoring this webinar.
We are working on slides – check back later.
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 23, 2022
AnCan’s upcoming webinar “Prostate cancer biopsies: the great debate” takes on a hot topic for anyone planning a biopsy: Should it be transrectal or transperineal? Learn what these techniques are and why the decision matters. Register at https://bit.ly/3OJ9Mmu
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: Refining the fine print — making changes when you’re handed paperwork to sign (bn)
Topics Discussed
Recommending a Fox Chase doc for NJ first-timer with troubling PSMA-PET; bicyclist sees two PSA rises after radiation — time to worry?; metastasis nine years after prostatectomy, seeking a new California doc; shaken by PSA rise after salvage radiation and en route to medonc; chemo round three — “it sucks but it works” ; testicular “barrier” complicates treatment for rare metastasis to a testicle; 6 months undetectable PSA, looking forward to a holiday; recovering from infection after losing 25 pounds, and pondering a T-cell trial; fantastic Pluvicto response, hoping for additional treatments; diarrhea and fatigue coming off abi — was prednisone taper too fast?; Keytruda treatments hit roadblock after blood test; nurses look askance when he carefully reads — and modifies — a stack of paperwork before signing.
Chat Log
Bob G. Philadelphia (to Everyone): 6:01 PM: Can’t stay but wanted to let you all know about a full day virtual series of classes from Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, where I go. Titled “Focus on Prostate Cancer” Friday, October 21, 2022 7:30 am – 4:00 pm EDT Free, though they ask for a small donation. https://www.med.upenn.edu/prostate2022/agenda.html
Richie in LA (to Everyone): 6:12 PM: Have severe thunderstorms in my area right now, so if I get kicked off for loss of electricity, I will try and log back in ASAP. Thanks
Peter Kafka – MN (to Everyone): 6:14 PM: Richie: If your internet goes out you can join by phone if that doesn’t get kicked out.
Richie in LA (to Everyone): 6:14 PM: Thanks Larry Fish (to Everyone): 6:20 PM: from nadir … how often PSA rests ..how long was it rising up to now – ? why no action?
Bob McHugh (to Everyone): 6:26 PM: Dan Geynisman at Fox Chase …
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 6:43 PM: joeg@ancan.org I am 4+5
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 6:47 PM: Genitourinary (GU): Pertaining to the genital and urinary systems.
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 6:50 PM: FYI – These meetings are archived for viewing at later times.
Jeff in CA (to Everyone): 7:23 PM: Thanks all. Have another meeting startiing now. Much appreciation for your observations and feedback.
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 7:39 PM: The nuclear doc for PSMA I mentioned at Fox Chase Yi Li, MD, MSc.
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 7:43 PM: better name reference Jian Q. (Michael) Yu, MD, FACNM, FRCPC Chief, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Nuclear Medicine and PET
John Vandenberg (to Everyone): 7:44 PM: thanks – i’ll ask my primary doc next week
Ben Nathanson (to AnCan Barniskis Room): 7:49 PM: Hope surgery went well!
AnCan Barniskis Room (Private): 7:50 PM: TxBen … all good and a little advocating for myself too
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 7:58 PM: I read my mortgage papers and was accused of being a lawyer!
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 8:08 PM: How long does it take to run through your system?
Jim Ward (to Everyone): 8:11 PM: Gotta run. Congrats on the successul procedure, Rick!
