Last updated: 2023 Sept. 23
Welcome!
Our next Zoom meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct. 3rd, 2023, the first Tuesday of the month. To register for the meeting click here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
You are also invited to join out next In-Person PCS Peer Support Group. The meeting is on Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 2023, the third Tuesday of the month. Please register for this meeting by sending an email to <info@pcstoronto.ca> so that we can know how many to expect.
Location
Lansing United Church
49 Bogert Ave, North York,ON
M2N 1K4
one block south of Sheppard Ave. and one block west of Yonge St.
Close to the Sheppard-Yonge subway station
Time
7:10 pm – 9:15 pm Doors open: 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Free Parking available on the street after 6 pm
Masks
The church prefers that masks be worn; however, the decision is a matter of personal preference.
We look forward to seeing you in person.
Current plans are for meetings on the first Tuesday of the month on Zoom and on the third Tuesday in-person for the next few months. Please be sure to check this page before each meeting.
If this is going to be your first meeting, or even if it’s not, you might want to familiarize yourself with some of the terms that are used by looking at this Glossary of Terms. For first timers, click here to see the agenda for the meeting.
Our next Awareness Night will be on Tues. Sept. 26, 2023.
The presenters are Justin Lorentz, (Sunnybrook) and Emily Thain, (UHN) on “Prostate cancer genetics”. To register for this Zoom presentation click here. To see our complete 2023 schedule, click here.
Videos of previous meetings are available:
- July 2023 – Dr. Richard Wassersug on “Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and bone health” (No video will be available.)
- Mar. 2023 – Dr. Martin Smoragiewicz (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) on “Immunotherapy in prostate cancer” (Video available soon.)
- Jan. 2023 – Dr. Andrew Evans (Mackenzie Health) on “Understanding Gleason scores and pathology reports”. Click here.
- Nov. 2022 – Dr. Olivier Heimrath (Humber River) on “The Evolution of Treatment Intensification in Advanced Prostate Cancer” Click here
- Sept. – Dr. Eric Marsden-Marsden (Centre For Excellence in Integrative Medicine) on “Naturopathic Cancer Care and Prostate Cancer” Click here.
- July – Dr Di (Maria) Jiang (Princess Margaret) on “Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer” Click here.
- May – Tara Daniels (Inspired Health BC) on “Healthy Communication and Cancer” Click here.
Check out videos from more previous meetings by going to our video page.
Can’t make our Support Group Meetings and are looking for one? Check out the calendar located here. You may be able to find a virtual meeting at a time that works for you with some other group.
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A Message from PCCN – Toronto – September 2020
Click here to read our message to all prostate cancer patients. It includes the latest news about the merger of Prostate Cancer Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society plus a COVID-19 update.
Individual Support Continues
The Support Line (416-932-8820) continues to operate if you have questions and would like individual support. Please leave a reasonably detailed message and we will have an appropriate volunteer get back to you. Similarly, you can email us at info@pcstoronto.ca for support. We are monitoring the Support Line and email more closely than usual while this situation exists.
Individual peer navigator support for patients and partners/caregivers also continue to be available through TrueNth. Click here for more information, including a link to their website. (Some of the Prostate Cancer Support Toronto members are also involved with this program.)
If you are concerned about the effects of this virus on your treatment, click here for one of the many article that consider this. Remember that most prostate cancers are slow growing, so a minor delay may not be significant. As always, talk to your health care team if you are concerned. Click here for a video titled “Practical Advice FOR Prostate Cancer PATIENTS for weathering changes caused by COVID-19” Also, don’t forget that new articles are still being posted. To check out the latest ones, go to RESOURCES/Recent News menu item under SUPPORTING YOU.
For more information about the Coronavirus, what you can do to reassure yourself, and strategies for dealing with the current situation, click here for words of wisdom from Dr. Mark Moyad.
For a more technical, although quite readable, look at the virus, and the most effective way to combat it, click here.
A Message from the Board of Directors of PCCN Toronto (March 23, 2020)
We just wanted to send out a note to all those who are regular volunteers and supporters of
PCCN-Toronto.
During this period of suspension we will strive to duplicate as best we can, the quality of
support and advice that we have provided. To this end we encourage men, their families, and
caregivers who are asking for suggestions or information, to use our support line and email
address through which they will be connected to someone in our team of volunteers.
I know many of us look forward to the regular PSG meetings both as an opportunity to interact
with other volunteers and, more importantly, to help the newly diagnosed or survivors with
issues they wish to discuss.
We are all disappointed at having had to cancel the upcoming meetings. Hopefully, this will be
for a short duration only. However, that remains to be seen.
We would ask that you please keep in touch with the website for current news and we look
forward to meeting again soon.
In the meantime, please be safe and healthy.