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.
For February we had a real treat of a guest – decades in the making! Yes, decades. It was our pleasure to have one of Rick’s oldest, and best friends (and AnCan Advisory Board Member) Mr. Mark W. Kissin, FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons) join us. This has been a wish for years, and we are so grateful that Mr. Kissin was up so early (around 2:30 am UK time) to make it happen for us.
Mr. Kissin is a recently retired breast cancer and melanoma surgeon in the United Kingdom. He is recognized as a pioneer in sentinel lymph node biopsies, which help determine the spread of breast cancer. He has presented an amusing history of the breast at many medical conferences.
The National Health Service of the United Kingdom has presented him with an NHS Distinction Award for his work, dedication, and innovation; and he has received a British Citizen Award Medal of Honour. BBC television once broadcast him performing a full mastectomy and reconstructive breast surgery live to demystify the procedure and to help minimize women’s trauma about it.
In retirement. Mr. Kissin finds plenty of time to work on his golf handicap, grow vegetables, and enjoy his grandkids.
(For our US audience: UK and Commonwealth surgeons drop the title of doctor and revert to Mr. on surgical qualification. Your barber, or hairdresser, may be able to explain why!)
Mr. Kissin’s show was filled own songs, and he gave a short excerpt from his lecture, “The Illustrated Art History of the Breast,” which has been delivered at many high-profile medical conferences around the world.
This isn’t an interview, but a front row seat to a warm conversation between two life-long friends. You don’t want to miss this show.
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Bonus! Here are the two pictures of Rick and Mr. Kissin featured in the show!
Webinar: Radionuclide Diagnostics & Theranostics – Theory and Clinical Practice Meet!
Nuclear payloads, guided missiles, directed assassinations…not in global conflict or wars, but prostate cancer and what happens inside bodies of men getting radionuclide theranostics (treatment) and diagnostics (scanning) today.
Radionuclide treatment for prostate cancer is at least 10 years old – does that surprise you? Bayer’s Xofigo was approved in 2013 but adoption has been slow until recent FDA approvals of theranostics (treatment) viz. Pluvicto, and diagnostics (scans) like Illucix and Posluma.
Radionuclides are theory-intense with nuclear medicine doctors less exposed to treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Conversely, GU medical oncologists are less familiar with radionuclides than hormone and chemo-therapy.
Two global experts, GU medical oncologist Dr. Oliver Sartor and nuclear medicine guru, Dr. Philip Kuo will introduce radionuclide theranostics and diagnostics and discuss how the clinic and the theory intersect.
Learn about radionuclide medicine – how it works and what it can do for you! This information will help patients learn how to make sure your Genitourinary Medical Oncologist and Nuclear Medicine Doctor work in harmony.
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Special thanks to our sponsors who made this webinar possible….
This could be scary…It’s almost open enrollment season for Medicare!
A dreaded time to receive multiple communications in untold ways that often read like a foreign language. It’s only fitting that we talked about it the day before Halloween.
Join AnCan as we bring experts Amanda Goodstadt, Esq. from Triage Cancer, and Medicare Insurance Broker Kim Umphres to explain all things confusing around 2024 Medicare insurance options, and make this enrollment season a little less spooky and intimidating.
Our panel will explain the whole menu from alphabet soup plans to doughnut holes! Learn the difference between Traditional and Advantage plans and if you can switch between them, what HMOs and PPOs mean, how to sign up to see any doctor anywhere and much more.
Click here for a special handout from Triage Cancer with Medicare resources.
Special thanks to Bayer, Pfizer, Myovant Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson, Telix, and Blue Earth Diagnostics for sponsoring this webinar.
To SIGN UP for any of our Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
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.
There’s no magic bullet in this prostate cancer game… not even focal therapies, good as they sound.
Listen to world expert Dr. Laurence Klotz speak about what makes a good candidate – and why some come out free of side effects while recurrence may be on the cards for others.
What are the different types of focal therapy and is one better than the other?
Most important for YOU – who’s a good candidate, and who may get suckered by a white shoed urologist??
Join us to find out!
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Special thanks to Bayer, Pfizer, Myovant Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson, Telix, and Blue Earth Diagnostics for sponsoring this webinar.
For information on our peer-led video chat PROSTATE CANCER VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS, click here.
To SIGN UP for any of our Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
