Two don't-miss free webinars featuring AS visionaries: Drs. Klotz and Scholz
By Howard Wolinsky
Time to register for two free webinars on active surveillance with two prophets in the land of prostate cancer.
Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) and AnCan Virtual Support Group for Patients on Active Surveillance are both holding seminars within two days of each other, Jan. 28 and Jan. 30, respectively.
ASPI first presents the latest episode in the cliff-hanging AS 101 video series, featuring Dr. Laurence Klotz, “father of AS.” Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) will premier the AS 101 Episode 3 video on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, at 12-1:30 p.m. Eastern. To register, click here.
AnCan features Dr. Mark Scholz, author of the groundbreaking “Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers.”
Scholz’s program is entitled, "Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: The return 13 years later. An evening with Dr. Mark Scholz." To register, click here.
I am moderating both programs. So c’mon folks, my job as an advocate is riding on this.
Please register and get a front-row seat. (Actually, all seats are front row.) Bring your questions, turn off your mics and chomp on some snacks. Make ‘em healthy.
In both cases, if you can’t make it, register and you’ll get a link to the recording.
Read the details below.
AS 101 Episode 3: A prostate cancer diagnosis with the father of AS
By Howard Wolinsky
When we last saw Larry White in Episode 2 of the video cliffhanger, Active Surveillance 101, he and his wife Nancy were adjusting to his rising PSA.
Dr. Laurence Klotz, “the father of AS, advised them about Larry’s options.
Now on to Episode 3: The Whites meet again with Klotz about what’s next up for Larry regarding AS.
AS 101 is a series of 20-30-minute conversations between the Whites and leading prostate cancer experts covering essential questions for patients considering AS. We have more in the can.
The goal of this series is to reach AS candidates, including the newly diagnosed and those who have not yet been diagnosed with prostate cancer but have rising PSAs (prostate-specific antigen) blood levels, to provide them with an introduction to AS.
Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) will premier the AS 101 Episode 3 video on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, at 12 p.m. Eastern. Register here.
The session will be followed by a Q&A, a discussion of the video, and a support session.
In 2022, ASPI honored Klotz, of the University of Toronto, as the first recipient of the Gerald Chodak Active Surveillance Pioneer Award. The late Dr. Chodak was Klotz’s mentor and also was ASPI’s first medical advisor.
The Active Surveillance Coalition (ASC) created the series called Active Surveillance 101 to teach the basics of AS to newly diagnosed patients and to those in the “gray zone” with rising PSAs who are awaiting biopsies. Programs are brief, lasting 20-30 minutes without slides.
View earlier AS 101 videos: https://aspatients.org/a-s-101/.
At least four more programs are being developed, including one on biopsies and pathology reports with Dr. Jonathan Epstein, the top-gun pathologist on prostate cancer from Johns Hopkins University. Others deal with genetic and genomic testing and imaging, including MRIs and micro-ultrasounds.
AS 101 was created under the banner of the Active Surveillance Coalition, whose members include ASPI, AnCan’s Virtual Support Group for Active Surveillance, Prostate Cancer Support Canada, Prostate Cancer Research Institute, and The Active Surveillor newsletter.
Are the invaders still snatching prostates?
By Howard Wolinsky
Don’t miss the AnCan webinar that will answer the question posed in the headline.
The program at 8-9:30 p.m. Eastern Jan. 30 features Dr. Mark C. Scholz, co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 book: “The Invasion of The Prostate Snatchers.”
Scholz’s program is "Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: 13 years later. An evening with Dr. Mark Scholz." To register, click here.
Kudos to AnCan’s Alexa Jett for her design of the meeting flyer with the winged prostates.
I think these are prostates that were snatched and heading for prostate heaven. How do you interpret them?
Winged prostates remind me of the Sufi’s winged heart:
And also the logo for unfortunate Southwest Airlines: