Thousands of men with prostate cancer in the UK could be cured with an hour-long operation, doctors hope. The ‘game-changing’ treatment uses electrical currents to destroy difficult to reach tumours. Read the article.
September 2021 Awareness Night Dr. Rajiv Singal, MD, FRCSC Endourology, Urologic Cancer and Robotic Surgery Michael Garron Hospital Asst. Prof., Dept. of Surgery, U. of Toronto In this session Dr. Singal will review: -life before March 2020 -the early Covid pandemic response -some data on what has been lost or deferred in terms of care -principles on how Prostate Cancer has been triaged throughout the pandemic -some Covid modelling data for the 4th wave. For the Q and A portion of the evening, Dr. Singal will be joined by Dr. Olivier Heimrath. Dr. Heimrath is a partner in …
(Here is a preview of an article by one of PCCN-Toronto’s favourite Awareness Night speakers. He has a regular column in US Too’s Hot Sheet.) Coronavirus Part 1 (Hopefully There is No Part 2 Because We Will Have Conquered Corona Quickly) by Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH My Hot SHEET column does not come out for a few weeks, so I have been asked to provide some personal thoughts on the obvious situation occurring. In addition to my public health background, I have previously worked with other infectious agents that have impacted many people. Let me be candid here. I am …
Last updated: 2023 May 25 Our Next Meeting will be on Zoom on June 6th. Click here to register for this meeting. Welcome! Our next Zoom meeting will be on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023, the first Tuesday of the month. You are also invited to join out next In-Person PCS Peer Support Group. The meeting is on Tuesday, June 20th, 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 …
Prostate cancer has moved on. The focus used to be on diagnosing this cancer at an early stage. Now that testing is common and so many early cancers are being found, the focus has shifted to trying to prevent these early cancers from developing into advanced disease. Read the article here.
UK scientists find chance of high-grade prostate cancer rises by 21% with every 10cm increment in height. Read the article here.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever treatment for people who get up to urinate at night. Noctiva is a nasal spray, designed to be taken twice-daily, that increases absorption of liquid into the kidneys, slowing urine production. Read the article here.
The number of new cases of metastatic prostate cancer climbed 72 percent in the past decade from 2004 to 2013, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The report considers whether a recent trend of fewer men being screened may be contributing to the rise, or whether the disease has become more aggressive—or both. Read the article here.
Hacking, the unauthorized access to data, is common these days. There are no federal requirements for cybersecurity standards on hospital equipment, which means once these machines are on a hospital’s network – and there are thousands in every hospital. Billy Rios, a cybersecurity expert, says most are easily hacked. Settings and critical information can be changed. Read the article here.
November 2014 Awareness Night – 20th Anniversary Celebration Watch this video of our 20th anniversary celebration: A bit of history from our founding as Man to Man to our joining the Prostate Cancer Canada Network Congratulatory messages from the medical community Our position on PSA testing as presented by PCC’s President and CEO Rocco Rossi CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation 54:38 minutes