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Regular prostate cancer support meetings are held by various groups in Ontario and other provinces.  Here is a partial list of when they occur and links to get more information: 1st Tuesday Date Speaker Topic/Subject First Tuesday Prostate Cancer Support Toronto website   Third Tuesday Prostate Cancer Support Toronto website Fourth Tuesday Burlington  

November 2020 Awareness Night There IS Sex after Prostate Cancer! Dr. Stephen Holzapfel, MD, CCFP, FCFP Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, and Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, U. Toronto Dir. of the Sexual Medicine Counselling Unit Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at Women’s College Hospital His goals for the Awareness Nights presentation was to provide some education on the sexual effects of Prostate Cancer to men and their partners, potential treatments for these, to answer questions and to facilitate a discussion among members of the audience around this intimate and often taboo subject.  He wanted to

Dear PCCN Toronto member We hope you are keeping well and safe. If you are currently undergoing treatment, we trust it is going well and wish you all the best. Because of the current situation, our in-person Peer Support Group (PSG) meetings at the Valleyview Residence and Awareness Night meetings at Toronto Botanical Gardens have been suspended for the time being. The PCCN-Toronto Board of Directors decided to have these meetings online using the ZOOM teleconferencing platform. After a few successful, experimental sessions with a small number of persons, we are now opening this up to a larger group. Our

Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC) and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) have agreed to amalgamate. See the announcement here. (https://www.prostatecancer.ca/In-The-News/Foundation-News-Releases/Prostate-Cancer-Canada-and-the-Canadian-Cancer-Soc) It is important to note that PCCN-Toronto will continue to provide support, as we have for over 26 years (before PCC was formed) to prostate cancer patients, their families, caregivers and friends. That means that Peer Support Meetings, Awareness Nights, hospital/clinic visits, phone/email support, etc. will carry on as before. At this time, it is not clear where our group will fit within CCS. PCCN is an umbrella organization of support groups across the country, which our group, formerly known as

There are seven bizarre reasons that could make men more at risk of prostate cancer. Read the article here.

In Canada, there are currently no approved therapies to treat patients in the non-metastatic castration-resistant state of prostate cancer. Read the article here.

May 2018 Awareness Night Improving Your Well-Being Through the Body-Mind-Soul Connection Carrie Poteck BA, MT, RYT250 Carrie completed her Master’s Degree on the impact of Mindfulness and Well-being and has been instructing in this area for many years in educational, therapeutic, and corporate settings.     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation 47:08 minutes