Us -Too! Brampton General Meeting 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

"Surviving Prostate Cancer
- 10 years and beyond"

Dr. Peter Chung

This excellent talk, conducted by Dr. Peter Chung on behalf
of Dr. Mary Gospodarowicz, was attended by over 80 members,
spouses and guests.
[Dr. Gospodarowicz was unable to present the talk in person
due to an unforeseen schedule change]

In essence Dr. Chung's talk dealt with the definition of 'survivor' and
issues related to long term care and cancer survivorship.

He opened his talk with a discussion on how early screening and modern
treatment had helped improve results and delayed treatment failure.
He remarked that today most patients with early stage disease could expect
to survive beyond 15 years. Follow up practices included PSA monitoring,
Problem Management and Lifestyle counseling. He presented statistical data
from various clinical trials and compared and discussed the outcomes for
different forms of treatment.

Coming next to long term care, however, he explained that currently there
was lack of established guidelines and that most patients were not seen beyond
10 years. There was little in the way of research on long term care and lack
of reliable information. Thus long term care remained largely fragmented and
in the hands of GP's or other medical professionals who may not always be
familiar with issues related to cancer survivorship. He defined Cancer
survivorship as “living with, through, and beyond cancer” and also touched upon
the broader aspect of Cancer Survivors to include families and even care givers.

Dr. Chung then went on to present some of the Cancer Survivorship Initiatives
such as those at The Lance Armstrong Foundation and The Cancer Foundation.
To illustrate what was needed he examined the goals and aims of the Lance
Armstrong Initiative and the ten point action plan of the Institute of Medicine (US).
Dr. Chung concluded his talk with a presentation of PMH Survivorship Initiates.
Of these, the Pediatric was the most developed, Breast Cancer had been recently
established and it is hoped that a Prostate Cancer Survivorship program could
likewise be established in the future.

Following the talk members came forth with a vast variety of questions. Dr. Chung
provided detailed answers to each one and this Question & Answer session was
amongst the most interactive and interesting we have ever seen. The evening ended
with a tremendous applause and appreciation for Dr. Chung, who bear in mind, had
to fill in for Dr. Gospodarowicz at the very last minute.

We are indeed very thankful to Dr. Gospodarowicz for nominating Dr. Peter Chung
in her absence and to Dr. Peter Chung for having accepted.

AUDIO RECORDING & SLIDES

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The Audio recording is in 2 parts:

Part 1: Talk - ''Surviving Prostate Cancer - 10 years and beyond"
http://ustoo-brampton.com/Audiostreams/Chung/tenyearsbeyondtalk.rm
[4,066 Kbytes, Talk time: 00:33:06]
Down load times: 
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Part 2: Q& A session -''Surviving Prostate Cancer - 10 years and beyond"
http://ustoo-brampton.com/Audiostreams/Chung/tenyearsbeyondQA.rm
[4,374 Kbytes, Talk time: 00:35:36]
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Approx.: 28 Mins. (56KBaud)
Approx.: 4 Mins.  (384KBaud)

Library call Number: Audiobook 616.99463 Chu
Avialability: Late Feb or Early March 2006

SLIDES
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Slides: http://www.ustoo-brampton.com/tenyearsbeyond.pdf
[Acrobat File (.pdf) Pages 29, Size 706 Kbytes]