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The Prostate Net® Leads The Way:Informed To Fight Medical Education Symposium for Patients and Healthcare Professionals Successful.
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Hackensack, NJ; Thursday, October 14, 2009: Virgil H. Simons, Founder and President of The Prostate Net®, a national prostate cancer advocacy group, announced the organization's latest major initiative in the fight against prostate cancer successfully met its goal of delivering contemporary and emerging information on the care and treatment of patients with prostate cancer. A day-long, dual-track educational symposium targeting patients, caregivers and medical professionals took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at New York University, Kimmel Center for University Life in New York City.
Donald Coffey, PhD, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was featured as the event's Key Note speaker. Dr. Coffey, in his unique and entertaining style, delivered an inspirational presentation on the state of cancer treatment and development. Dr. Coffey was also joined by a world-class faculty of prostate cancer specialists who presented and discussed contemporary information and issues confronting the disease. "We believe our goal of offering a specific awareness and educational effort, targeted to both patients and professionals, within an unique dual-track environment was very successful in providing symposium participants access to those world-class health professionals, whose work form disease management policy and best standard of care," said Simons. "We are very pleased that this initiative provided access to information for both patients and professionals, not normally readily available, as to the best standards of care based on leading edge research and clinical practice."
A series of interactive Audience Response System (ARS) questions were built into presentations, allowing symposium participants the opportunity to provide feedback on key issues raised during the event. ARS questions covered topics such as PSA Testing, Quality of Life, Emerging Treatments, Prevention Strategies, Effective Use of The Internet, Becoming Your own Advocate and much more. The Prostate Net plans on incorporating these and future ARS questions into an unique format that will be housed on their web site: www.theprostatenet.org.
 
This offering will be used not only to provide valuable information to patients, but to also gather specific feedback on a series of "key" issues confronting prostate cancer patients while also providing a forum for patients to interact and communicate with each other as a way of empowering and securing support as they fight the fight against their disease. Data will be captured and form the basis of providing pertinent topics for future educational sessions.
 
"We will provide a package of the 10/6 event program information to prostate cancer support group leaders, health service professionals and any other educational resource for consumers and patients to enable them to enhance the quality of their educational efforts" commented Virgil Simons. "This material, in conjunction with the online resources to be provided, will serve to improve the process of informed decision-making by communities, patients, survivors and their families and caregivers." AstraZeneca was the event's principal sponsor. Also supporting the event: Abbott, Amgen, GTx, Sanofi Aventis, Purdue, and Genentech.
 
Following the October 6th model, The Prostate Net plans on convening a series of regional prostate cancer educational initiatives starting in 2010. For future dates and locations, please access www.theprostatenet.org.
About The Prostate Net
Virgil H. Simons founded The Prostate Net® in 1996 as a result of his own encounter with prostate cancer. When he was diagnosed, there was little to no readily accessible information to help prostate cancer patients and their families make informed treatment decisions.
Today, men diagnosed with prostate cancer can readily access The Prostate Net's website to find information empowering them to make treatment decisions that ensure a desirable quality of life. Recognizing that people absorb information differently, The Prostate Net also features PodCasts, Web Casts and an opt-in cell cast network as well as a Toll-Free "Hotline" for those seeking one-to-one support. The website also is an educational vehicle for the public to learn about prostate cancer in general. The Prostate Net's newsletter, "In The Know," may be viewed on the website, but is available through free subscription as well as also distributed in conjunction with our other public education initiatives.
The job of raising public awareness about prostate cancer risks is far from complete. The Prostate Net seeks to expand its current initiatives through effective partnerships in disease education, community intervention and population research studies. This site has been designed to provide you with some of those tools and guidance that can be employed on a local basis to address particular issues for your community or organization. For more information on The Prostate Net, please go to: www.theprostatenet.org or call toll-free: 1.888.477.6763
Regional Symposium Series - 2010 Sites / Dates
| April |
Lombardi Minority Cancer Research Center - Georgetown University,
Washington, DC - 4/17/2010 |
| May |
Rutgers School of Public Administration and Affairs, Newark, NJ -
5/15/2010 |
| August/September |
University of Florida College of Medicine Dept. of Urology - Date TBD |
| September |
Northwestern University (Chicago) Prostate Cancer SPORE - 9/11/2010 |
| September/October |
The Prostate Net, NYC - Date TBD |
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