We have questions on AS. Please share your answers to enlighten our docs and policymakers.
Your attendance requested at two AS workshops
By Howard Wolinsky
Have you shared your opinions on Active Surveillance issues yet?
About 350 of you have. Thanks.
Still, we need to hear from YOU if you haven’t responded. All responses are anonymous.
To complete the survey, click here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W69XXDS
The survey is aimed at patients currently on active surveillance and those who were on AS but have moved on to treatment. The survey takes about five minutes to complete.
Several issues are facing men on Active Surveillance for low-risk to favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer, such as patient preferences between transperineal vs. transrectal biopsies, whether Gleason 6 should be reclassified as noncancerous, and the issues relating to mental distress (anxiety and depression) and surveillance.
AnCan Virtual Support Group for Active Surveillance, Active Surveillance Patients International, Prostate Cancer Support Canada, and TheActiveSurveillor.com newsletter are asking you to participate.
The groups are conducting the survey to get a reading of patient views on these topics to be shared among patients, clinicians, researchers, guideline writers, and policymakers.
The survey closes Nov. 15. But why wait?
The future of Active Surveillance
By Howard Wolinsky
The Active Surveillance Coalition, a collaboration of support groups for active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer, is sponsoring a webinar at 9 a.m. Vancouver/12 p.m. New York/5 p.m. London/6 p.m. Amsterdam on Thursday, Nov. 17 to discuss how more men ought to be on AS, close monitoring of prostate cancer.
The free webinar is entitled “Moving AS to the next level: Can we help more patients?”
Register here: https://bit.ly/ASnextlevel
Physician leaders on AS from Sweden, Holland, the United Kingdom, and the state of Michigan will share their “secret sauce” for reaching AS rates of near 90% and above. The U.S. average for AS uptake is just under 60%, better than it used to be but not as good as it could be.
Active Surveillance 101
ASPI will air Active Surveillance 101 - Part 2 featuring Nancy and Larry White and Dr. Laurence Klotz at 12:00 PM Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022.
Register at https://bit.ly/3SENBAd
To view session 1 go to https://bit.ly/3BUCxIE featuring Nancy and Larry White and Steve Spann, MD, family physician and dean of the University of Houston College of Medicine.