Hello friends! We have yet another recording for art class! This time we have May’s art project: Twilight In The Pines! Last week we got to use acrylic paint for this serene piney scene at the twilight hour. We had a great time, and we even celebrated longtime participant, Karen Broder’s birthday!
If you’d like to give it a try for yourself, check out the video below:
Check out supplies here:
Canvas 9x12in OR your size preference
Acrylic paints: Two types of Blues (I’ll show you how to make more blues if you don’t have another)/ Orange / Pink (I used a dark pink; can use red if needed) / Yellow / White / Black
Brushes: Flat 3/4in or similar / Fan brush small size OR Round brush if you don’t have a fan brush
Water
Napkins
Option: something to cover up anything you don’t want paint splatters to get on
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You can also check out past class there, too!
Our next class will be held a little bit earlier than usual: Thursday June 8th at 8pm ET
AnCan Foundation supports several conditions that compromise the pelvic floor as a result of surgery, radiation, or just side effects of the disease itself. It can impact continence and sexual function for all!
A non-interventional rehab solution is pelvic floor physical therapy – a sub-specialty in itself.
Join one of AnCan’s favorite superstars, urologist Dr. Rachel Rubin, and esteemed expert Dr. Tracy Sher. Together, shared how pelvic floor exercises can help you recover function!
You’ll also get a ton of questions answered, asked by MS Moderator Kim Stroeh, and Prostate Cancer moderator Dr. John Antonucci.
Watch here:
Special thanks to Bayer, Pfizer, Myovant Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson, and Telix for sponsoring this webinar.
Check back later for slides.
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Hey Friends! If you missed last Thursday’s art class, then I have the recording for you right here! Share it far and wide, and don’t forget to email your pictures to Alexa (Alexa at AnCan.org).
Supplies:
Canvas Size 12in x 12in or similar. Feel free to use a rectangle as well
Acrylic Paints: White, Blue (or whatever other Sky & sea color you want), Orange, Yellow, optional Purple
Palette Knife
Brush: 3/4in or similar
Optional tiny brush OR tooth pick OR cotton swab for optional birds
Water
Napkins
Watch here:
Have fun with this and please don’t hesitate to reach out to Hannah@AnCan.org with any additional comments & questions. Happy painting!
Come float away with us, as we create colorful butterflies in this art class! Watercolor pencils can be found at Dollar Tree, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, any craft supply store. You can also use regular watercolor paints, crayons, and colored pencils. Don’t feel like you need to go out and purchase an entirely new set of supplies!
What you’ll need
Paper – watercolor paper if you are using watercolor pencils or paints
Art medium of your choice – watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, crayons, or colored pencils (if using watercolor pencils or paint)
WEBINAR – ‘The Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: 13 years Later’: An Evening with Dr. Mark Scholz
By Howard Wolinsky, Peter Kafka and Ben Nathanson
Dr. Mark Scholz, author of Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers, drew a record audience to his AnCan webinar on January 30, 2023.
Registration worldwide was close to 1,000 — nearly double the previous record — with more than 600 watching live.
Scholz’s talk, “Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: 13 years later” discussed how prostate cancer treatment — and overtreatment — has progressed since the book’s original publication in 2010. The book took aim at a urological-industrial complex performing surgeries on hundreds of thousands of low-risk patients, leaving many impotent and incontinent.
Half those men, he argued, could safely have been followed without aggressive treatment. Scholz, a medical oncologist, coauthored the book with patient Ralph Blum. A new edition was issued in 2021.
While urologists today still unnecessarily “snatch” prostates, Scholz said, the number is far fewer since active surveillance was endorsed in 2007 as a safe and effective strategy. And he said radiation therapy, which he had criticized in the past, also has become safer and more effective.
Still, men come to him thinking they have only two options: surgery or radiation. In fact, they have more than a dozen options, based on the severity of their disease and their preferred balance of treatment and side effects. He urges patients to “obtain facts and apply principles” — replacing assumptions about cancer with informed decisions.
Even for the smaller, but significant segment of men diagnosed with more serious grades of prostate cancer including metastatic, Scholz explained that there has been so much progress in new treatment modalities with limited side effects that many men are living long productive lives living with their disease and not dying from prostate cancer. Dr. Scholz stressed that unlike other cancers, prostate cancer is much slower growing and the rush for treatment in most instances is not necessary.
After the talk, Scholz answered 40 minutes of audience questions.
AnCan moderator Joe Gallo produced the webinar, and moderators Peter Kafka, Howard Wolinsky, and Ben Nathanson relayed questions. Alexandra Scholz, CEO of Prostate Cancer Research Institute, the nonprofit education initiative run by Scholz, edited the video, and she and Peter Scholz lent production assistance.
