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- Prostate Cancer – Women and Partners, Advocates and Sufferers
Patient advocate Jackie Reubin discusses women’s and partner’s roles in supporting men with prostate cancer, and the impact these have on their own health and well-being. A video of Jackie and her husband Barry can be seen here.
16 min - When Success With HIFU Focal Therapy Inspires A New Charity
In the seventh of our audio series, Prost8 founder Paul Sayer discusses his personal journey to establish a charity aiming to change the conversation around prostate cancer treatment.
18 min - Gogs Gagnon - Prostate Cancer Warrior
Prostate cancer survivor and campaigner Gogs Gagnon discusses how writing and promoting his book “Prostate Cancer Strikes: Navigating the Storm” served as a catharsis on his personal journey. Gogs shares insights on a range of learnings and experiences, including how to challenge diagnostic information and treatment recommendations. Gogs has become a social media phenomenon – find him at his website, on Twitter, on YouTube, on Facebook and on Amazon.
18 min - When Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance becomes Anxious Surveillance
TFTC patient Perry Letcher discusses his experience with early-stage prostate cancer and why he moved from Active Surveillance to Focal Therapy in his treatment.
24 min - Why HIFU Focal Therapy Is Emerging As The Optimal Prostate Cancer Treatment For Many Men
Consultant Urologist Alan Doherty from the Birmingham Prostate Centre discusses the advances in imaging and radiology that now make focal therapy a preferable treatment to Active Surveillance.
14 min - The Mental Health Challenges Faced By Men With Prostate Cancer
Consultant Urologist Marc Laniado discusses the mental health challenges facing men diagnosed with prostate cancer, and explores how these are best managed. In this interview, Marc highlights the anxiety caused by perceived trade offs between curing cancer and losing sexual and urinary functions and explains how focal therapy helps many men deal with this.
24 min - Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy Treatment – Friend Or Foe?
Consultant Urologist Raj Nigam discusses over- and mis- use of hormone therapy for men with early stage prostate cancer, and how this is reinforcing health inequalities.
21 min - The Montgomery Ruling – Do You Know Your Patient Rights?
Consultant Urologist Tim Dudderidge on how prostate cancer patients in the UK have a right to know their treatment choices, embodied and codified in law through the Montgomery Ruling, and discusses how Covid-19 has impacted prostate care.
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About On Focus
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Clare Delmar explores issues facing men diagnosed with prostate cancer that are little known, less understood and almost never talked about. A podcast series by The Focal Therapy Clinic.
https://www.thefocaltherapyclinic.co.uk