AS Webinars: Lifestyle, Future of AS, Decisional Regret
Webinars past and present
By Howard Wolinsky
Three webinars for the price of one.
What’s coming?
AnCan is presenting a program on lifestyle choices and all grades of prostate cancer at 8-9:30 p.m. Eastern on May 31. Register at: https://bit.ly/3KkxcfC
The webinar, entitled “Optimizing Sleep, Exercise, and Nutrition in Prostate Cancer," features Dr. Stacy Loeb, professor of Urology and Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine and the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Dr. Justin Gregg, assistant professor of Urology and Health Disparities Research at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, of UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Dr. Gregg will speak about his research on diet. Dr. Loeb will speak about her research on a plant-based diet, sleep, and exercise.
Did you miss the biggest program on AS to date: “Your Voice in the future of Active Surveillance” on April 22? Here’s the link: https://aspatients.org/meeting-videos/
A Who’s Who of experts joined the conversation along with patients and advocates, who were not too shabby either.
A dozen AS-related organizations endorsed the program on April 22.
Nearly 400 AS patients, advocates, clinicians, and researchers registered for the ASPI-AnCan -led webinar,
About 200 attended the session live, featuring such leading researchers as Dr. Laurence Klotz, of the University of Toronto, who named AS; Drs. Chris Banga and Ola Bratt, who pioneered AS in Europe, and Drs. Peter Albertsen, and Timothy Witt, who pioneered AS in the United States.
The session was supported by AnCan, ASPI, EUROPA UOMO, MaleCare, Movember, PCai, PCRI, PHEN, the Prostate Forum of Orange County, Prostate Cancer Foundation BC, Prostate Cancer Support Canada,
TheActiveSurveillor.com, the University of Maryland, and the Walnut Foundation.
Finally, catch up with Dr. Chris Wallis, of the University of Toronto, on decisional regret: “Second Thoughts: Treatment Regret and Low-Risk Prostate Cancer” https://bit.ly/3xWgqkK
Thanks Howard. Knowledge conquers fear based anxiety.