Regarding the ESMO highlights on prostate cancer, there are three videos available on prostate cancer presented and discussed for patients by experts (in this case our own Vice Chairman Erik Briers) in a way that is easy to understand:

1.  Personal congress highlights prostate cancer
2.  New results for treatment of prostate cancer part 1
3.  New results for treatment of prostate cancer part 2

The Urology Care Foundation has put together a Prostate Health Playbook to help people learn about prostate health, relating key concepts to the sport of football.

This football-themed prostate health resource covers prostatitis, BPH, prostate cancer screening, treatment and life after prostate cancer.

As of now the Secretariat of Europa Uomo has a new email address: info@europa-uomo.org (replacing europauomo@skynet.be).
Please send all your emails to the new address. The Skynet address will be disconnected from 1st January 2023.

Those who filled in our EUPROMS 2.0 survey and indicated that they were interested in a small follow-up survey after one year, will be asked to fill in this follow-up survey in the month of January 2023. Keep an eye on your mailbox!

This project, implemented by the Lithuanian Society of Prostate Cancer Patients and the Lithuanian Cancer Patient Coalition, was established to provide psychological counselling services to men who have experienced an emotional crisis due to the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Read the report here.

All.Can has published its Efficiency Metrics study, a piece of policy research which proposes a set of internationally applicable and real-world measures generated and collected from daily clinical practice. The report can be used by relevant stakeholders to assess efficiency in cancer care and aims to harmonise and set standards in cancer care efficiency globally.

More info here.

Data Saves Lives, a multi-stakeholder initiative with the aim of raising patient and public awareness about the importance of health data, has developed a special toolkit on this subject.

Download the toolkit here.

All Europa Uomo members are confronted with data and must manage these according to, and in compliance with, the GDPR standard. Therefore the Europa Uomo Board has decided that this is an important subject to be included as a topic at our next General Assembly Masterclass in 2023.

Our American ZERO colleagues have published their 2021 annual report. It provides interesting information on what the organisation has achieved for our fellow American prostate cancer patients.

Read the annual report here.

The Committee of Experts on Quality and Safety Standards in Pharmaceutical Practices and Pharmaceutical Care  of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare is carrying out a project aimed at improving the safe use of food supplements containing plants or plant-derived preparations. The intention is to provide patients and users with approaches and sources to seek accurate and trustworthy information on these products so that they can make informed decisions about their consumption.

Complete the survey here (Deadline 2nd December 2022).

PIONEER is conducting a survey to better understand the communication between patients diagnosed with prostate cancer and their treating physician. The survey is available in five languages: English – Dutch – German – Spanish – French.

The deadline of the survey is 10th January 2023.