Our new meeting place: The Bella Fontana Pat Nuckols Meeting Room has proven to be an excellent room for our meetings.  It also has the advantage that is doesn't have the negative connotations that a hospital facility does as well as answer the problem of where to meet with Wilson N. Jones Health Center disposal of the facility. 

Our November meeting will answer requests from a number of you to learn more about nutrition and specialized cancer diets.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how much is known about prostate cancer diets and how well informed our members are.

See you at the November meeting.  Jerry Bylander

Date:  Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Time:  6:30 pm - Social & Coffee  7:00 pm - Program
Location:  La Bella Fontana Spa, Pat Nuckols Meeting Room,101 E. Jones, Sherman                                Title: "Can I prevent prostate cancer or its growth with proper diet?”                              
Moderator:  Dr. Thomas Nuckols, Austin College Professor Emeritus
                             
Roundtable:   Come join our roundtable discussion.  Those in the know can tell us about Vitamin E and limits on its dosage.  Also you can tell us about other free radicals such as selenium and its drawbacks.  Are you taking lycopene?  One of our panelists will discuss an M.D. Anderson diet with its emphasis on soy, and another will discuss the importance of bone health and how to achieve it.  Please come and share what you know with the others, otherwise come and learn.    

As always the group does not recommend any particular treatment, therapy, physician, or hospital. US TOO Sherman is a prostate cancer group formed for the purpose of sharing information, education, and mutual support. 

January meeting plans
Title: TBD
Speaker:  TBD
Program:  We may ask a local oncologist or urologist to present at our January meeting.

Title: "What do I need to know about the latest and greatest treatments for prostate cancer and how can I find them?"

Speaker: Don Riedl, retired Proctor and Gamble manager and long time prostate cancer survivor.
Talk:  Don is just back from the “National Conference on Prostate Cancer 2005” held in Washington, D.C.  You will learn what the leading prostate cancer practitioners answer when they ask themselves, “Can all forms of prostate cancer be cured?”  Since it is important to know how to find help, Don will describe the talks given by leading practitioners and their relative availability.  You will also learn how to ask your own doctor about these new therapies.  You will also find out what an oncologist general practitioner is and how he can help you approach a cure for your own cancer if you should so choose, and how to use this advice with your own doctor to achieve a cure.  When and why should you choose such a specialist for your prostate cancer first, and what can they tell you about the latest treatments for CaP (all stages)?   (What is a stage?). 

The meeting adjourned about 9:30 PM.
 

Jerry Bylander

Material posted here is intended for educational purposes only and must not be considered a substitute for informed medical advice from your own physician.

Henri has suggested an interesting website:

Here is a link to a German scientist who has a good test for systemic cancer so as to not put a man through therapies that cannot succeed.

http://www.prostapath.de/
 

 Jerry Bylander, Editor