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Guest Chats

Starting this year,  experts sometimes drop in to our 4th Thursday Advanced meetings to talk to us for a few minutes about their areas of expertise.

23-06 (Chat) Cary Presant, M.D. "Update: The City of Hope Mushroom Extract Trial"
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23-06 (Chat) Cary Presant, M.D. "Update: The City of Hope Mushroom Extract Trial"

In this update to his presentation last year, Dr. Presant reports on promising results from a clinical trial with white button mushroom tablets to reduce levels of prostate specific antigen in the blood. Prostate Forum of Orange County is a Southern California Prostate Cancer Support Group, with online (Zoom) meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of most months, beginning at 5:00 p. Pacific Time. Our website address is: www.prostateforum.org
22-10C. Merel Nissenberg "Informed Discussions & Shared Decision Making" 2022-10-25
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22-10C. Merel Nissenberg "Informed Discussions & Shared Decision Making" 2022-10-25

Information is power. Learn how to be an Informed Advocate in Dealing with Your Prostate Cancer Merel Nissenberg, Guest Speaker at the October 2022 Advanced Diagnosis meeting, is an attorney and President of the National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions (naspcc.org), a national umbrella non-profit that publishes PROSTATEPEDIA Magazine and the weekly PROSTATEPEDIA DIGEST. She is a passionate advocate for men with prostate cancer, and their families.
22-07C. Dr. Cary Presant "Mushroom Clinical Trial at City of Hope" 2022-07-26
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22-07C. Dr. Cary Presant "Mushroom Clinical Trial at City of Hope" 2022-07-26

Dr. Presant describes the trials underway at City of Hope tht examine the expected immune benefits of White Button Mushrooms (WBM) and details the requirements for participation in the trials.
22-06C Dr. Amar Kishan "MRI-guided SBRT" 2202-06-28
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22-06C Dr. Amar Kishan "MRI-guided SBRT" 2202-06-28

Dr. Kishan of UCLA visited our Advanced Group online meeting in June to talk about the state of the art MRI-guided SBRT now in use at UCLA Medical Center and to answer questions. Prostate Forum of Orange County ( www.prostateforum.org) is a Southern California Prostate Cancer Support Group, with monthly meetings with featured speakers on 4th Thursday of most months starting at 7 pm.
22-04C. Dr. Gary Ulaner "PSMA Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen" 2022-04-26
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22-04C. Dr. Gary Ulaner "PSMA Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen" 2022-04-26

Dr. Gary Ulaner dropped in to our May meeting for Advanced Prostate Cancer to talk about the new PSMA treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. (Dr. Ulaner's talk begins about five minutes into the recording - he begins informally by answering questions from attendees.) Prostate Forum of Orange County is a Southern California Prostate Cancer Support Group, with monthly online meetings for anyone affected by prostate cancer. Visit us at: www.prostateforum.org
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