Have your voice heard on the future of AS in a free international webinar
Join us at 11 am Eastern on April 22,
(Editor’s note: Two major figures in prostate cancer, Dr. Laurence Klotz, who coined the term “active surveillance,” and Dr. E. David Crawford, who wants to move past AS, have joined the all-star faculty of the free webinar, "Your Voice in the Future of Active Surveillance," on April 22 at 11 a.m.Eastern/4 p.m. GMT. Please join us, too. We have more than 70 registrants already in the first few days. The virtual meeting may fill quickly.)
By Howard Wolinsky, The Active Surveillor
Do you want to see where active surveillance is heading? Do you have some views you want to share?
Active Surveillance Patients International and the AnCan Virtual Support Group for Active Surveillance and other leading advocates and doctors are holding a free webinar, "Your Voice in the Future of Active Surveillance," on April 22 at 11 a.m.Eastern/4 p.m. GMT.
Sign up here ASAP: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtfuuqrzwtHNPuqzkigx65YBk8vV-teUdy
This webinar is a spinoff from two projects held this winter to address the future of AS.
Movember, the Australia-based men’s health organization, and Prostate Cancer International/University of Maryland held programs engaging patients and doctors on future directions for AS.
The leaders in this work, Dr. Minhaj Siddiqui, Professor, Urology, the University of Maryland, and Dr. Caroline Moore, Professor, Urology, University College London Division of Surgery and Interventional Medicine, representing Movember, will present their research to date at the webinar.
Panelists include:
--Dr. Peter Albertsen, a pioneer in active surveillance, is professor and chief of urology at the University of Connecticut.
--Dr. Chris Bangma, professor of urology at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, is a leader in the introduction of active surveillance in Europe. He is the coordinator of PRIAS and GAP3 studies.
--Dr. Ola Bratt, professor and consultant urological surgeon at the Prostate Cancer Centre, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg, Sweden, and chairman of the National Prostate Cancer Guidelines Group in Sweden.
---Dr. E. David Crawford, professor of urology, University of California San Diego, and chairman, Prostate Conditions Education Council.
—Dr. Peter Carroll, professor, the UCSF Department of Urology, founded the Urologic Oncology Service at UCSF and is a pioneer in active surveillance.
—Dr. Laurence Klotz, professor and past chief, University of Toronto, Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, is another pioneer, who dubbed the strategy as "active surveillance.”
—Dr. Antonio Westphalen, faculty member, University of Washington Departments of Radiology, Urology, and Radiation Oncology, and chief of the Abdominal Imaging Section.
—Dr. Timothy Wilt is a health services researcher at the Minneapolis VA Center whose work led to the development of observation, watchful waiting, and screening of prostate cancer.
In addition to ASPI and AnCan, program sponsors include Europa UOMO, Prostate Cancer BC, Prostate Cancer Support Canada, the Prostate Forum of Orange County, the Walnut Foundation in Toronto, and TheActiveSurveillor.com newsletter.
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