The Oct 5 Conference Agenda...a conference for men and their families who are concerned about advanced stage disease and quality of life.

[Darryl]

Here's the tentative conference agenda. I have a few surprises planned, and we may shift a speaker slot here or there, but, the following should give everyone here a clearer picture of the high value the conference is providing for our Advanced Prostate Cancer community. We've designed the agenda to provide genuine take-aways for all men who have been diagnosed. The speakers are being asked to present their talks as if they are speaking to smart patients who want to know what to do. There will be plenty of time for questions throughout the day. There will be interactions between the speakers and attendees in hallways and side rooms over truly amazing food and drinks, all included. You'll be hearing from truly world-class clinicians, several of whom rarely have the time to present to a patient audience. Please buy your tickets now. We have limited seats and once we sell all of the seats, that's it...I can't squeeze people in. Click here for tickets: eventbrite.com/e/prostate-c...

PRESENTATIONS

Morning: Diagnostics and Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer

9:00-9:05 Welcome Darryl Mitteldorf, LCSW Malecare

9:05-9:15 Introduction and outline of the day Phillipa Cheetham, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center

9:15-9:30 Do female doctors have a different perspective for men with prostate cancer? Suzette E. Sutherland - Urologist,, University of Washington Medical School

9:30-10 New diagnostic tools: (Special Surprise Speaker)

10-10:30 Ablation Therapy (Hifu, Cryo): When, why and how?

Kristin Scarpato - Urologist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

10:30-11 ADT (Hormone Therapy) management: When, why and how?

Carolyn Salter – Urologist, (MSKCC) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

11-11:15 Panel responds to patient questions

11:15- 11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 Castrate-resistent prostate cancer: Immunotherapy and Molecules for You (Xtandi, Erleada and Zytiga)

Sue Slovin – Medical Oncologist, MSKCC

12:00-12:30 Novel combination salvage therapies

Karen Autio - Medical Oncologist, MSKCC

12:30-12:45 PANEL responds to patient questions

12:45-1:30LUNCH

Afternoon: Quality of Life Issues – for patients and partners

1:30 – 2:00 Life without Testosterone: Low Libido, ED, Depression, Fatigue

Carolyn Salter – Urologist, MSKCC

2:00 -2:30 Sexual Rehabilitation after Prostate Cancer treatment

Melissa Kaufman – Urologist, Vanderbilt

2:30– 3:00 Urinary Rehabilitation - incontinence and voiding dysfunction

Laura Leddy – Urologist, MSKCC

3:00-3:30 Sexual Intimacy for Patients and Partners

Rachel Hoffman, Social Worker, Sex Expert

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:15 Active Surveillance: Is it right for me? Is it a good mindset even after treatment?

Sigrid Carlsson, Epidemiologist, MSKCC

4:15-4:45 Psychosocial Aspects of Genetic and Genomic Testing

Jada Hamilton -- Psychologist

4:45-5:15 Paliative Care - Pain Reduction and Emotions

Kavita Dharmarajan – Radiation Oncologist, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine – Mt Sinai Medical Center

5:15-5:45 PANEL responds to patient Q&A

5:45-6:00 Final remarks Dr Cheetham