VIP Eastern Annapolis Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group
Annapolis Valley East - Nova Scotia
Information Website - Created and maintained by support group members.
Recent PSA Controversy: CPCN Responds
Supplements for prostate health: So what does work?
Immunotherapy: An Overview On April 14, 2009, Dendreon Corporation announced that its prostate cancer vaccine Provenge prolonged the survival of men with advanced prostate cancer.........
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Invitation to participate in study on exploring the impact of cancer on emotional well being: Seniors' experiences and perspectives.
What is a Prostate? YouTube Video - Most men don't know what their prostate gland is for. The Canadian Cancer Society hit the streets to give them a hint. - Canadian Cancer Society
TRUE GRIT: MEN FACING ADVANCED HORMONE REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER
http://www.cpcn.org/news/cpcnnews_0901_article1.htm
When prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate, men are usually put on
hormone therapy. Often, this therapy works well, but, eventually, a cancer
can become resistant to all hormone treatments or hormone refractory. Read
the inspirational stories of two men who have not only battled advanced
prostate cancer for years but also helped others in the fight.
TREATING HORMONE RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER: NEW RESPONSES TO THE
CHALLENGE
http://www.cpcn.org/news/cpcnnews_0901_article2.htm
With time, prostate cancer may no longer respond to hormonal therapy as it
did initially. The cancer becomes resistant to hormone deprivation therapy.
When metastatic prostate cancer reaches this stage, there is no effective
cure. But researchers are working hard to discover better ways of treating
men with hormone resistant prostate cancer. Read about some promising areas
of research.
THEM BONES: OSTEOPOROSIS AND PROSTATE CANCER
http://www.cpcn.org/news/cpcnnews_0901_article3.htm
"Male osteoporosis is really epidemic," reported Dr. Stephen Strum during
his presentation _Osteoporosis in Men with Prostate Cancer_, given at the
2008 CPCN Prostate Cancer Conference. "And I believe it is epidemic not just
in the prostate cancer population." Discover how diagnosing and treating
osteoporosis effectively can help men with prostate cancer fight their
disease.
Intermittent hormone therapy: What's new?
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Intermittent hormone therapy: What's new?
Increasingly, drugs that interfere with the production of androgens or that block the effects of androgens are prescribed to men whose prostate cancer has spread outside the prostate gland, whose cancer appears to have returned after they have undergone surgery or radiation treatment, or who are at a high for recurrence. And, most often, their cancers are controlled well by this hormone therapy, at least initially.
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PROSTATE CANCER
In Canada approximately 18,200 men are diagnosed annually with prostate cancer. That is about 26% of the total of prostate, lung and colorectal cancer diagnoses. In the area from Windsor to Digby the urologists at the Valley Hospital in Kentville diagnose between 5-8 new patients each month .
When a man and his family are told he has prostate cancer they are usually numbed and in this state of mind have great difficulty asking the urologist the right questions. Many questions spin through their heads:
- Why me, I have always lived a healthy life?
- Can this cancer be treated successfully?
- Is there time for the treatment?
- Are there options in treatment?
- What will be the physical and psychological effects of each option?
At that time it is difficult to have a systematic and detached question and answer session. Usually the urologist gives some good documentation but that will take time and the right frame of mind to read and absorb. The two most important things to remember in those first moments are that:
- Many men continue to live productive and long lives after the prostate cancer has been diagnosed and treated
- You are not alone in dealing with this disorder. In the Kings County Prostate Cancer Support Group (2004) you can meet men and their partners who have walked this road and who are ready to share their experience with you to help you become well informed and decide with your Doctors on the treatment that is right for you.
The Kings County Prostate Cancer Support Group (KCPCSG) provides a venue for prostate cancer patients and their partners where they can
- Obtain information to deal effectively with the choices they have to make about appropriate treatment. This cannot of course, replace the discussions they must have with the treating urologist or oncologist but it is useful to prepare for such discussions.
- Discuss these choices with survivors that have experienced these treatments.
- Receive moral support while facing their treatment and the recovery time.
In the interest of early detection, the KCPCSG actively promotes PSA testing for men over 40 who have a family history of prostate cancer and over 50 in all other cases.
We meet several times a year from 7- 9 in the East Kings Public Health Facility on Earnscliffe Avenue in Wolfville.
We usually have a speaker and in addition we share experience and information amongst the members and plan and review other activities.
Several of the group members are active with community groups to support and initiate awareness programs focusing on presentaions and discussions in places of employment, public venues and special events. We are working with councellors and the medical profession to formulate an informative program for use within the community and bringing stories of hope and survival to those who can be affected with Prostate Cancer.
Contact our members directly if you have any questions or suggestions:
- Dick Groot
- Wayne Marriott
- Bill O'Brien
Canadian Prostate Cancer Network
POBox 1253, Lakefield, Ontario
Canada, K0L 2H0
Tel 705 652 9200, Toll Free 1 800 810 CPCN (2726)
www.cpcn.org/
Canadian Cancer Society - National Office
10 Alcorn Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4V 3B1
Tel: Tel 416 961 7223
E mail ccs@cancer.ca
www.cancer.ca
Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
1262 Don Mills Road, Suite 1-F, Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M3B 2W7
Tel. 416 441 2131, Toll Free 1 888 255 0333
E mail info@prostatecancer.ca
www.prostatecancer.on.ca
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