Informed Prostate Cancer Support Group (619) 890-8447

July 18, 2020 - 10:00am PDT

IPCSG Roundtable

Three of IPCS’s members tell of their journey with Prostate Cancer.

Gene Van Vleet – Welcome message and overview of IPCSG’s mission. Gene will then discuss his personal journey with Prostate Cancer, how it was detected and his decisions about treatment.

Dick Howard – He was under the care of an oncologist late last year. A biopsy was done, but complications occurred. A very scary time for Dick. He talks about his journey from the biopsy to how he found IPCSG, and how IPCSG helped him become his own case manager!

Ralph Hughes - His journey started in May 2014 PSA 3.95 and rising. Following a Biopsy, he had a proctectomy, but as many of us have experienced, he had a Recurrence. Ralph shares several valuable lessons he learned along his journey.

Due to COVID-19, no in-person meetings will be held at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute until further notice.

Click the link below to watch the livestream event on July 18th, starting at 10:00 AM PST.

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June 20th 10:00 am PST Sharp

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, MD and Dr. Andrew Goldstein, PhD

This IPCSG webinar was presented live over the internet using "ZOOM" software. The presentations were recorded and are available on Youtube in the link to the right.

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, MD, Director of San Diego Sexual Medicine will speak about some of the negative side effects of prostate cancer treatment and their management, including urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. He will also discuss contemporary research in these areas.

Dr. Andrew Goldstein, PhD Professor-in-Residence of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will explain how healthy prostate cells develop into cancer, and how prostate cancer cells develop resistance to therapy, which is critical for improving disease diagnosis and identifying new treatment options. He will present some of his laboratory's basic science research that will enable us to better understand prostate cancer biology and may lead to new approaches for therapy in the future.

Due to COVID-19, no in-person meetings will be held at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute until further notice.

Watch the presentation on Youtube

Saturday May 16 10:00am PST- Dr. Bhangoo

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Meeting Overview

Dr. Bhangoo will discuss the latest cancer science related to prostate cancer that was presented during the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. There were over 250 cancer related presentations with several focused on Prostate Cancer.

ASCOs Mission is to conquer cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

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Dr. Bhangoo is a hematologist and oncologist at the Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center who treats patients with a variety of cancer diagnoses. He has a specific clinical expertise in the management of cancers involving the genitourinary tract, including prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and testicular cancer.

Dr. Bhangoo is passionate about improving cancer care through biomedical research. He has a special interest in finding personalized approaches to cancer care based on tumor-specific alterations. He works collaboratively with his colleagues at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to clarify the molecular mechanisms underpinning cancer biology with the hope of discovering new therapeutic strategies. His research has been published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Oncologist, Oncotarget, Molecular and Clinical Oncology and BMC Cancer.

This Livestream event has ended.

As requested by Dr. Bhangoo, no recording or DVD's are available.

We have invited Dr. Bhangoo back to give his presentation again in the near future.

IPCSG Live Stream