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Comment by Kathy Meade on April 25, 2008 at 5:46pm

NCI Sponsors Webinar on Tools to Guide Cancer Control Planning for Prostate Cancer



NCI's Office of Advocacy Relations will host a Webinar on a set of simulation models from NCI's Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET). The models can be used to support the establishment of policies, guidelines, and evidence-based cancer control interventions (i.e., screening and treatment) for prostate cancer to optimally balance benefit and cost.



This Webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14, 2008, from 12:00-1:00 p.m., EST. No advance registration is required. More information and instructions on how to participate are available at the CISNET Webinar page .

Comment by Darryl on April 17, 2008 at 3:57pm

Our Petition to Make Prostate Cancer a National Priority is off to a good start. For the coming months, you can be a State Leader, to motivate people to read and sign at prostatecancerpetition.org . For each State, we will have at least one leader, and that can be you! As most all of your effort will be focused online, you can do most all of your volunteer work from home, in just a few hours a month, as we ramp up the petition sign-on's through Election Day. Here is your chance to truly be a part of history. A Petition for Prostate Cancer has not been attempted at this scale for almost eleven years. If we achieve at least a hundred thousand names, we will show a powerful face and significance about Prostate Cancer that simply is not seen today. Researchers will have hope and research funders will have concrete evidence that our Prostate Cancer community is strong and united. We can really do this. SO, please email me, directly, to darryl@malecare.com and we will get going, strong.
Darryl

http://www.prostatecancerpetition.org

Comment by Leah on April 12, 2008 at 2:45pm

Darryl,

Thanks for inviting me to join this august group.

Comment by Bob Shiell on April 10, 2008 at 11:22pm

Today the Canadian Cancer Society released its 2008 Stats. Prostate cancer has taken the lead as the most dx'd cancer in Canada, with more cases than Lung, Breast or Colorectal. They estimate that 24,700 prostate cancer cases will be dx'd in 2008, lung cancer is second with 23,900, followed by breast with 22,400 and then colorectal with 21,500.

Comment by Kathy Meade on April 10, 2008 at 12:17pm

NCI's Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) is sponsoring an "Understanding NCI" teleconference series. The next call in the series is "Clinical Trials in Your Community: NCI's Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOPs)," on Thursday, April 10, 2008, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., EST.

The featured speakers are: Dr. Lori Minasian, Chief, Community Oncology and Preventive Trials Research Group, NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention; Dr.
John Kugler, Chairman, Executive Committee for the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG); and Ms. Laura Matus, Volunteer Coordinator and Patient Advocacy Liaison, Illinois CancerCare. A Question & Answer session for participants will follow.

No registration is required for participation. To join the teleconference, dial toll-free within the U.S. 1-800-857-6584. The passcode is: Prevention.

If you can't participate "live" on the day of the teleconference, listen to the replay of the call through May 10, 2008 by dialing toll-free 1-800-284-7027.

To learn more about CCOPs, visit:
http://dcp.cancer.gov/programs-resources/programs/ccop.

For more information about the Understanding NCI: Toll-Free Teleconference Series and to learn about past teleconferences, please visit:
http://advocacy.cancer.gov/.

Comment by Kathy Meade on April 10, 2008 at 9:43am

This is a very interesting piece in a Canadian publication. Great that it comes from a female Family Physician. Nothing that we haven't heard before but is there a way to use this? Maybe we can identify a female physician in the US who can publish something like this in a US publication using US statistics?

Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2008, p.163
Copyright (c) 2008 by The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Editorial
The sounds of silence
Diane Kelsall, MD Med CCFP FCFP, EDITOR

http://www.cfp.ca/cgi/content/full/54/2/163

In the same issue there was also this article

Top 13
http://www.cfp.ca/cgi/content/full/54/2/198

Good fit together.

Kathy

Comment by Mike on April 8, 2008 at 10:32pm

Darryl:

Just an FYI. ... I told Joel yesterday that you-all need an icon/logo for the petition that can be used as a downloadable cionnector-button for other web sites to "feature." He said he'd "push it up the food chain."

Mike

Comment by Darryl on April 8, 2008 at 7:36pm

Welcome to our group! We've got lots of work to do...and we are glad you are here. FYI the "group photo/image." It comes from the "We the People" part of the US Constitution. Just a place keeper until we come up with a more representative image. Feel free to suggest one!

Comment by Ralph Valle on April 8, 2008 at 6:27pm

Darryl,
Thanks for starting this group. I am, all for it!

RalphV