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Virtual Zoom Meeting 27th July 2021
28/07/21
Tonight's presentation was 'Being Physical Active' and we looked at the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Guidelines for Physical Activity published in Sept 2019; Physical Activity and Prostate Cancer, what do we know? and What we can do to realize the known benefits of Physical Activity?…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 13th July 2021
14/07/21
At this meeting we reviewed a recent UsToo webinar by Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCSC - Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, on Novel tools in the Active Surveillance pathway. The full Webinar can be watched on demand here: https://youtu.be/kLHOIUWtzQY. We started watching about 40 minutes in…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 29th June 2021
30/06/21
Despite the England vs Germany Euro fixture we had over 20 join tonight's call. This included a number of visitors from Scotland. Andrew brought his personal experience and the expertise he has developed as a patient to tell us all about brachytherapy. We recorded the session with Andrew's kind permission as we were anticipating a low attendance due to the football…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 15th June 2021
16/06/21
At this meeting we reviewed a recording of a recent Us-Too Webinar on Biomarkers: Biomarkers are measurements that give information about the activity of cancer and potential response to therapy. These can be measured in blood, but also include imaging findings. The use of biomarkers may help men personalize therapy more effectively and may contribute to understanding response to treatment…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 25th May 2021
26/05/21
At tonight's meeting we reviewed the recent survey of members concerning our return to face to face meetings. We had a good discussion about the implications of this which include the start of 'hybrid' meetings where we will hav esome people in person at the church and some people connected by Zoom from home…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 11th May 2021
11/05/21
Tonight we reviewed Slides and a presentation on Bone Health and Nutrition. This highlighted the importance of maintaining healthy bones as you get older, especially if you are having Hormone Treatment. This was based on a Us-Too Webinar that can be seen here: https://youtu.be/rWJNsdF-MRU
Further information is available here: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/keep-your-bones-strong-over-65/…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 27th April 2021
27/04/21
We were joined tonight by Mohit Mitra the Area Manager (Wales, Central & West Midlands) for iMEDicare Ltd who took us through the importance of penile rehabilitation and the use of the Vacuum Pump. He also showed various incontinence devices that iMEDicare provide. For more details see: www.mypelvichealth.co.uk
We also looked at the results of a recent survey by Europa Uoma of Prostate Cancer Patients…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 13th April 2021
13/04/21
Tonight's Zoom meeting was a discussion about returning to face-to-face meetings. Many questions were raised which don't yet have answers. These included:
Will some people choose not to return at all to the regular meetings? Will we still need some safety measures in place? Will they be Governmemt rules, Church rules or our own rules?…
Virtual Zoom Meeting 30th March 2021
30/03/21
Tonight's presentation was 'Surviving Hormone treatment' by Andrew Gabriel of the FOPS suppport group…
Request from University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) to complete patient survey
12/03/21
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Trust which covers the Queen Elizabeth, Good Hope, Solihull and Heartlands Hospitals are asking patients who have had a Radical Prostatectomy operation for prostate cancer within the last two years at any of the UHB hospitals to complete a survey which should take around 15-20 minutes to complete…