Free
and exclusive event for health professionals
Where: Newcastle Civic
Centre
When: Tuesday 6th March
2012, 1.15pm - 7.30pm
The Prostate Cancer Charity and The British Association of
Urological Nurses invite health professionals caring for men with
advanced prostate cancer to a unique event in Newcastle on March
6th. At this free event delegates will have the opportunity to
learn about the latest guidance and developments from experts in
this rapidly changing field.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. 37,
000 men are diagnosed each year, and one man dies every hour. As
the incidence increases so too does the burden for health care
teams, both in primary and secondary care settings.
The joint initiative, taking place during Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month, is aimed at providing health professionals from
across the NHS with a greater understanding of some of the most
important issues facing men living with the most advanced stages of
this disease and how to best manage its impact.
Georgia Diebel, Health Service Liaison Manager at The Prostate
Cancer Charity, explains: "We are honoured to be partnering with
the British Association of Urological Nurses for what promises to
be an informative and thought provoking event. It is an exciting
time in the management of men with advanced prostate cancer, as new
emerging treatments are becoming available and potentially men can
survive longer due to these treatments. We hope that through this
free meeting, professionals can be given the tools and knowledge
they require to deliver a first class service to men when they need
it most."
Programme highlights include:
- 'The escaping cells: devastating
consequences'Philippa Aslet, Senior Urology Nurse
Specialist/NMP LEAD, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust
- 'Hormone therapy: first line
treatment'Mark Johnson Consultant Urologist, The Newcastle
upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 'Metastases & the bone
environment'Lawrence Drudge Coates, Uro Oncology Clinical
Nurse Specialist & Hon Lecturer, Kings College Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust
- 'Management of castrate
resistant disease: after first line hormone therapy fails'
Dr Rhona McMenemin, Consultant Oncologist, The Newcastle upon Tyne
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Robert J Jones, Senior
Lecturer and Hon Consultant in Medical Oncology Centre for
Oncology, UK Beatson Laboratories, University of Glasgow and
Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
An Ask the Expert panel session will also take place giving
delegates an opportunity to pick the brains of the keynote
speakers.
To sign up for a place or to register your interest please visit
https://www.eventsforce.net/advancedprostatenewcastle
Or, if you are attending the event at Primary Care North on 25th
and 26th January in Manchester, then you will have the opportunity
to pick up a flier for this study day whilst you are there.