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Newsletter Fall 2025

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  In this issue: Toronto Warriors Seek Sustainable Support for the Unique Needs of Advanced Patients PCS Toronto Member Featured in CBC Article on Advanced Prostate Cancer Hope for Incontinence and ED: July Awareness Night Speakers Offer Helpful Advice Exercise and Prostate Cancer: How Moving Early, and Often, Can Help Walking with the Bachers on Father’s Day There’s ‘snow business’ like support business PCFC Welcomes Mark Mahl as New Executive Director Another Successful Father’s Day Walk-Run   Read it by clicking the link below to open the pdf file: Fall 2025 Newsletter

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Video: “Does the robot have the upper hand in radical prostatectomy?”

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May 2025 Awareness Night Dr. Amanda E. Hird, MD, MSc, FRCSC Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Dually appointed Staff, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Michael Garron Hospital     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:03:04 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice.   

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Video: “Nanoknife IRE – Game Changer for Focal Therapy”

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Mar. 2025 Awareness Night Dr. Robert Nam, MD, MSc, FRCSC Ajmera Family Chair in Urologic Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Director, North Toronto Prostate Centre   CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:19:59 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice. 

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Video: “Androgen Deprivation Therapy 2.0”

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Jan. 2025 Awareness Night Dr. Urban Emmenegger MD Medical Oncologist, Odette Cancer Centre (Division of Medical Oncology) Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute (Biological Sciences Platform) Associate Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:47:47 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice.   

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Video: “What ‘s New in Radiation Therapy, SBRT, Brachytherapy and External Beam”

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Sept. 2024 Awareness Night Dr. Dr. Hans Chung, MD, BSc, FRCPC Associate Professor, University of Toronto Affiliate scientist, Genitourinary Team, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Staff Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology   CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:29:03 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice.   

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Video: “Understanding Prostate Pathology Reports Part 2: Radical Prostatectomies”

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May 2024 Awareness Night Dr. Andrew J. Evans,  MD Ph.D. FCAP FRCPC Chief of Pathology, Medical Director of Laboratory Medicine, Consultant in Genitourinary Pathology, Mackenzie Health, Department of Pathology, Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:24:03 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice.   

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Video: “New Developments With Focal Therapy at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre”

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  March 2024 Awareness Night Dr. Nathan Perlis, MD, MSc, FRCSC Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Surgery Clinician Investigator, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Cancer Clinical Research Unit CCRU, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:30:13 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice. <span style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark”

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Video: “Program on Diet and Nutritional Lifestyle” – AS 101

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Here is the recording of the latest AS 101 webinar. Newly diagnosed patients with prostate cancer often ask if there is a particular diet plan they should follow. Stacy Loeb, MD, a professor in the Department of Urology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine addresses diet and other lifestyle questions in the newest segment of AS 101, an ongoing “college-like” course to help these newly diagnosed patients. Be sure to visit the ASPI (Active Surveillance Patients International ) website to stay up to date with the AS 101 series. Watch  it here

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Video: “Is focal therapy right for your prostate cancer?” – Dr. Klotz

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Dr. Laurence Klotz, of the University of Toronto, is known as the father of active surveillance. But he has been involved in other advances in prostate care since the mid-1990s, including focal therapy. Who is the right candidate for focal? Should a 4+3 or higher ever consider focal (AnCan always navigates away for these guys) Is every 3+4 a candidate? What about high-volume Gleason 6 patients? Are all focal therapies born equal? If you have Gleason 4 in your gland, how can you be assured it has not micro-spread within the gland? Should you only get focal therapy from a Center of Excellence? How do

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Video: “The Evolution of Treatment Intensification in Advanced Prostate Cancer”

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November 2022 Awareness Night Dr. Olivier Heimrath, MD FRCSC Staff Urologist, Humber River Hospital Associate Urologist, Michael Garron Hospital Lecturer, University of Toronto   CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:31:31 Disclaimer:  The contents of this video is solely for the purposes of education and information and does not constitute personal diagnostic advice or personal medical advice.   

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