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Spring Survey Results 2012

Introduction

Program: Prostate Cancer: Precise Targeting Methods During Radiation Therapy

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction LISTEN
  2. Mike’s Story of Being Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer LISTEN
  3. What is GPS for the Body®? LISTEN
  4. Deciding Factors for Treatment LISTEN
  5. Who Should Receive Higher Doses of Radiation? LISTEN
  6. Mapping the Internal Anatomy with CT Scans LISTEN
  7. Importance of Exploring Options with an Expert LISTEN
  8. What Questions Should Patients be Asking? LISTEN
  9. Can GPS for the Body be used to Fight Other Cancers? LISTEN
  10. Taking Advantage of Available Resources LISTEN

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Andrew Schorr:

Hello and thank you for joining us once again for another edition of Patient Power sponsored by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Thank you so much to the SCCA for their devotion in helping you connect with leading experts, inspiring patients and the latest information. And today we are going to talk about the latest information when it comes to the treatment of prostate cancer for the men who chose having radiation as part of their therapy. I should mention that just a few days ago with the guests we'll have tonight we did an hour on radio that was here in Seattle, where we're based and where the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is of course, and we discussed sort of more generally prostate cancer, but we also started to talk about radiation today and where that comes in new ways of putting the radiation where the cancer is and trying to avoid as best we can with the latest technology hitting healthy tissue, which of course can lead to problems and side effects.

And wouldn't it be great, if you will, if there was sort of a GPS system for the body that would allow for precise targeting methods during radiation therapy? And certainly when you're firing radiation at the prostate, which is soft tissue and can move around, you know. It's moving as you move or as there are things going on in your abdomen or whether you turn at all, anything, just moving millimeters, you don't want that radiation in the wrong place. You want it in the right place.

Well, that was something that was really important to Mike Mckelheer who is 68 years old. He lives in Redmond, Washington. Yes, that's where the headquarters of Microsoft is, so it's pretty famous on the map these days. But Mike has not been working for Microsoft. He's a water sports designer, he's been a fly fishing guide, quality control technician as well. He's incredibly physically fit for 68, but last September in 2007 goes for a routine physical. I go for them too, and one of the things the doctors says and guys, you know, we don't really like it but basically manually they're feeling your prostate. Not the most pleasant thing.

But, Mike, in your case he felt something he didn't like, right?

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