Agenda Friday 26 April 2013 - day after tomorrow

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Agenda Friday 26 April 2013

 

Disclaimer

This Community does not give medical advice. No members are authorized to give medical advice. Ask your doctor if you hear anything here that you think may be related to your treatment. 

 

Time 

9:30am - 11:00am Eastern Standard Time (Queensland)

The formal phone-in meeting ends after 90 minutes.

The lines are kept open for an hour after that for members to informally chat.

 

Daylight savings times

Brisbane 9:30am

Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart: 10:30am

Adelaide, 10:00am

Perth 7:30am

Winter times

Brisbane 9:30am

Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart 9:30am

Adelaide 9:00am

Perth 7:30am 

 

Dial in 

You must dial in - we do NOT dial you.

 

Details only available to members in email

Contact Jim (below) if this is a problem

 

(Unchanged since last time)

 

Speaking time 

We want many voices to be heard. If you are a member listed to speak below, the chair will probably expect you to take no more than about 5 minutes on presentation so there is plenty of time for others to respond.

Special Guest Speakers are invited to speak for 10-15 minutes, then field questions.

 

Apologies 

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Late starters 

Maybe you haven't had access to the agenda or you have late breaking news you would like to share. Tell the chairman here at the beginning of the meeting that you would like to speak, and he will fit you in probably later, perhaps right now if that suits. 

 

Wally the prostate cancer forum administrator 

Wally Bocian has contributed more than 2,000 posts to a prostate cancer forum - in Poland. The forum is more general than ours - it deals with any man with prostate cancer, not just advanced men. You can see one of Wally’s posts (and his picture) by clicking this sentence.

But today Wally joins us as an ordinary man from Sydney whose cancer became advanced. Wally will tell us his story.

 

Special expert guest Dr Lisa Horvath

We are very fortunate to have as our guest today Dr Lisa Horvath, medical oncologist,who is highly regarded as an expert researcher into cancers, including prostate cancer.

 

Dr Horvath will give us a summary of current chemotherapy with a discussion on how biomarker research (like the work she is involved with) will improve treatment in the future.

 

More about Dr Horvath

Dr Lisa Horvath, medical oncologist, is the Head of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Sydney Cancer Centre (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital) and a Visiting Post-doctoral Scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor within the Central Clinical School of the University of Sydney. She has an active clinical practice and is involved with a large number of clinical trials in prostate, lung and colorectal cancers in addition to phase I trial work.

 

Other updates 

Any man who wishes to update us on his progress is welcome to contribute here.

 

Formal end 

The Chair will declare the formal part of the teleconference closed at his discretion, perhaps around 11am. The teleconference lines will be kept open until at least 11:30 for anyone who wishes to continue discussions, update his health, or just chat. 

 

Informal chat 

Any topic you like - topics we didn't reach, something discussed earlier you wish to comment on, an update on your health, how your new boat is going, moaning about the weather, anything that you wish to say. 

 

Future phone-in support group meetings 

Teleconference meetings are held on the fourth Friday (NOT always the last Friday) of each month (except January, which is one week late) and December (which is one week early). So February may have 2 teleconferences - the delayed January teleconference, and the normal fourth week. In 2013 this means teleconferences on both 1 February and 22 February.

 

Phone-in support group meeting dates 2013

1 February 2013 

22 February 2013

22 March 2013 (not last Friday in month)

26 April 2013

24 May 2013 (not last Friday in month)

28 June 2013

26 July 2013

23 August 2013 (not last Friday in month)

27 September 2013

25 October 2013

22 November 2013 (not last Friday in month)

20 December 2013 (not last Friday in month, not fourth Friday in month)

 

Changes or questions 

If you wish to update us about any changes in your health or treatment, or have a question you would like answered or discussed, or you would like to talk about joining a teleconference group, let us know. Then we can put it high on the agenda so it doesn't get lost - just reply to this email, or use Contact Jim on JimJimJimJim.com.

 

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