On Focus

Raj Nigam, Consultant Urologist  at the Royal Surrey NHS Trust and the Focal Therapy Clinic, joins On Focus to discuss the landmark study led by Imperial College London that was published last week to much acclaim. In both its outcomes, design and impact, this study is a breakthrough in supporting better choice and ultimately better care for men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer.

Tim Dudderidge, Consultant Urologist at Southampton University NHS Trust and the Focal Therapy Clinic joins OnFocus to discuss how clinical trials are designed to advance innovations in clinical practice and how they ultimately bring choice and benefit to patients.

Tim discusses his involvement in the CHRONOS trials which will investigate outcomes of men udergoing focal therapy vs surgery for localised prostate cancer. He  also explains how the a registry of men who have received HIFU treatment in the UK is providing a valuable data resource for statistical comparisons of treatments for men with localised prostate cancer, and highlights this week’s publication of a landmark study showing comparable outcomes for men undergoing focal therapy and prostatectomy.

CHRONOS trial:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04049747

https://imperialprostate.org.uk/chronos/

Focal Therapy v Prostatectomy study:

https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41391-020-00315-y

TFTC Consultant Urologist Marc Laniado joins On Focus to discuss the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown on prostate cancer services and patient care. The backlog in diagnostics and treatments for men with prostate cancer is real and a major challenge to the NHS, and men must be aware of what’s available to them.

Tina Woods, founder of Collider Health and author of Live Longer with AI, joins On Focus to discuss the changing narrative around ageing, the emerging science of longevity, and how this could impact conversations around treatment for older men with prostate cancer.

Tina is an acknowledged leader in the fast-growing field of longevity science. Her recent book “Live Longer with AI” is a top seller on Amazon and, as founder of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Longevity at Westminster she is at the heart of government policy on ageing and living well longer.

https://appg-longevity.org

Colin Stokes MBE is the indefatigable founder and honorary chairman of the Prostate Project, a charity established in 1998 and dedicated to improving the experience and outcomes for men with prostate cancer. Based at the University of Surrey and closely linked to the Royal Surrey Hospital, it has made a significant impact on both research and patient experience with prostate cancer. In this interview Colin emphasises the importance of localism and focus in the work of his charity, and demonstrates how this approach has helped to establish the Royal Surrey and the Stokes Centre for Urology as a world-class centre of excellence in prostate cancer research and practice.

https://www.prostate-project.org.uk/about.html

We were also very happy to be listed recently as one of the top prostate cancer podcasts.

Our final interview for 2020 is with Tom Riley, aka Sir Caughtshort, founder of Lockdown Loo, who joins On Focus to discuss the lack of public toilets and how this has caused a public health crisis across the UK. His response was to set up Lockdown Loo, a digital map of available and accessible public toilets. In this interview we discuss how the lack of public toilets discriminates against older folks and, in particular, men with prostate disease, and how it is also becoming a unifying issue for members of the public to with back and demand these facilities be provided.

Download the map here: www.lockdownloo.com

Read our blog here.

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Focal Therapy patient Ray Braithwaite discusses the difficult and impersonal experience he underwent immediately following his prostate cancer diagnosis which felt to him like being on a conveyor belt. He ultimately went on to undergo HIFU tithe TFTC Consultant Urologist Tim Dudderidge and felt so strongly about this experience that he published an article in his local newspaper on the Isle of Wight.

He’s also just published a children’s book in time for Christmas, called “A Rather Strange Christmas Day”. Its available here on Amazon.

Peter Hall is 87 years young, and joins On Focus to share his experiences with focal therapy and to encourage older men to seek PSA testing

TFTC Consultant Urologist joins On Focus to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team meeting (MDT) in informing diagnostic and treatment decision for men with prostate cancer

Susan Evans Axelsson, Clinical Coordinator joins OnFocus from Prostate Pioneer, a European consortium aiming to transform prostate cancer care by maximising the potential of Big Data.