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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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TULSA Ablation Treatment

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The TULSA ablation treatment is a focal therapy for the ablation of a surgeon defined region of prostate while actively protecting the urethra and rectum to help preserve the patient’s natural functional abilities.  Read about it here. TULSA was invented at Sunnybrook, and Dr. Klotz was involved in the development and evaluation of the technology over the last 20 years. The TULSA team he has assembled is one of the most experienced in the world.  Click here for more information.

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Video: “Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer”

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July 2022 Awareness Night Dr. Di (Maria) Jiang, MD, Msc, FRCPC Staff Oncologist, Genitourinary Group Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN Asst Prof., Clinician Investigator, Dept of Medicine, U. of Toronto   CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:33:48 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: “Prostate Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease”

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March 2022 Awareness Night Dr Darryl Leong, MBBS(Hons), MPH, M.Biostat, PhD, FRACP, FESC Director, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences Cardio-Oncology Program, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), McMaster University Staff Cardiologist, Hamilton Health Sciences.McMaster.     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:18:44 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: “Prostate Radiotherapy: the present and future of high precision treatment”

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January 2022 Awareness Night Dr Danny Vesprini, B.Sc, M.Sc, MD, FRCPC Dept. of radiation oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Affiliate scientist, Biological Sciences, , Sunnybrook Research Institute Assistant professor, Dept. of radiation oncology, University of Toronto     CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation time is 1:54:42 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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