The Manitoba Prostate Cancer Support Group

Meetings

 
Monday, September 18, 2023 7-9 pm
September prostate cancer Awareness Evening (SAE2023).
Please note that this day and date has been changed from Wednesday Sep 20 to Monday Sep 18, 2023.
This is our highlight event of the year and will be held at the Caboto Centre, 1055 Wilkes Ave., Winnipeg
Keynote address by Dr. Sri Navaratnam MBBS, PhD, FRCPC President and CEO CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB)
"CCMB Hope and Healing Program': how it will help Manitobans with prostate cancer"
There will be opportunity to ask questions and make comments.
Everybody Welcome     Free Admission
Free Parking     Door Prizes

Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Dr. Rene Zahedi M.Sc., Ph.D.
Director, MB Center for Proteomics and Systems Biology
"Proteomics and systems biology: powerful tools in the fight against prostate cancer"

Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Dr. Sabine Mai B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
CancerCare MB Research Institute
Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba
"Liquid biopsy for prostate cancer: what circulating tumor cells reveal"

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Dr. Gary Jawanda Manitoba Mens Health Clinic
"Role of the GP in early diagnosis, treatment and management of prostate cancer"

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Dr. Rashmi Koul MD FRCPC CCPE
Medical Director and Head, Radiation Oncology Program CancerCare MB
"Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) in prostate cancer"

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Dr Sarah Korsunsky
Center for Natural Medicine
"What it is and what it offers"

Wednesday, March, 2023
Dr. Paul Daeninck
Medical Oncologist, CancerCare MB
Assistant Professor, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Manitoba
"How to have a better life if you have advanced prostate cancer"

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Dr. Jay Nayak MD FRCSC FACS
Co-Founder Manitoba Mens Health Clinic, Winnipeg Assistant Professor,
Department of Urologic Surgery
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
"A urologists walk-through on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer"

Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Dr. Shantanu Banerji MD FRCPC
Medical Oncologist, Department of Medical Oncology
Director of Precision Medicine
and Advanced Therapeutics CancerCare Manitoba
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

Dr. Jeffrey Graham MD MPH FRCPC
Medical Oncologist, CancerCare Manitoba
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Manitoba
Affiliate Scientist, CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute

"The application of precision medicine to prostate cancer"

On The Horizon

18 Oct
Dr. Shelley Turner M.D. Medical Director, EKOSI Health
“Cannabis role in treatment and management of prostate cancer”

15 Nov
Xmas potluck
No speaker Just music and food

20 Dec No meeting in December.

Regular meetings begin in January 2024