Events

Active Surveillance Patients International will focus again on transperineal vs. transrectal biopsies.

The session will be at 12:00-1:30 pm ET (6:00-7:30pm CET) August 28.

The program will feature Agnes Gulbrandsen, a Norwegian hairdresser, who wanted to know why her father died from a brain clot days after undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy. The doctors dismissed her until her father’s urologist Dr. Truls Bjerklund Johansen proved the link and did a study showing that patients could avoid sepsis and infections by undergoing transperineal procedures.

Dr. Rick Popert, the self-proclaimed “prostatologist.” will describe the success in the United Kingdom in abandoning the transrectal biopsy and moving to the safer transpertineal biopsy.

Dr. Jeremy Grummet, an Australian urologist, will talk about how his country’s health plan is encouraging transperineal biopsies.

The discussion will be followed by a question-and-answer period.

A free zoom webinar sponsored by ASPI.

Dr, Eric Klein, chair of urology at the Cleveland Clinic, provides an in-depth analysis of the what, when, and how of Active Surveillance (AS). When to start AS, what to do when you’re on AS, and when to stop AS for treatment.

When: July 31, 2021 -Noon-12PM EDT (6:00pm CET)

Register: Meeting Registration – Zoom

Questions or Submit Questions: mlichty@aspatients.org

AnCan’s Virtual Active Surveillance Support Group is holding the debate from 8-9:30 PM ET (2-3:30am CET) on Wednesday, July 29.

On the affirmative is Scott Eggener, MD, Vice Chair, Section of Urology and Director, High Risk and Advanced Prostate Cancer Clinic at UChicago Medicine, who is leading a campaign to change the classification.

On the negative is Ming Zhou, MD, Pathologist-in-chief at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

We expect this event to fill up quickly. So register soon: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4132824931342678285

Questions? Write to joeg@ancan.org

Patient advocates interested in prostate cancer should mark their calendars for the ‘Prostate Cancer Patient Information Session’ during the EAU annual congress. This session will be chaired by our Vice Chairman, Mr. Ernst-Günther Carl, on Friday 9 July in Virtual Room 10 from 11:30-12:30 CEST.

More info and regsitration: eau2021.org