To the men and women in the GTA
April 26, 2010
On Friday April 23, 2010, in the “Living” section of the Toronto Star, there was an important announcement about our prostate cancer support group. (Please see below.)
On behalf of our Board of Directors and all our survivors, thank you for supporting our efforts with newly-diagnosed men and their families during our first 15 years.
We look forward to having your continued support as we move forward, perhaps with a new name, but still doing the much-needed work of raising the awareness level of prostate cancer and educating men who are diagnosed with this disease.
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Since 1994, The Toronto Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group has helped thousands of men and their families on their personal prostate cancer journey.
Recently, we joined Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC), the only national foundation dedicated to the elimination of this disease. As a result, beginning this July we will change our name to Prostate Cancer Canada Network–Toronto (PCCN-Toronto). We are confident that, as PCC reaches out to men across Canada, we will be able to connect with more men in the Greater Toronto Area than ever before.
As “Man to Man” is now an extremely well-known name among patients, survivors, and doctors in the Toronto prostate cancer community, we would like to thank everyone who has helped us get the word out during our first fifteen years.
If you or someone you know has prostate cancer please call 416-932-8820 or visit www.pccntoronto.ca for more information on:
- Peer Support meetings (the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month)
- Awareness Night meetings (6 times per year)
- Prostate cancer clinics
- Hospital in-patient visits
- Women’s support group meetings (Side by Side)
- Speakers’ Bureau
On behalf of PCCN-Toronto Man to Man and the 1 in 6 Canadian men who will be diagnosed with this disease in their lifetime, I sincerely thank all our supporters and our many volunteers for what you have done, and for all you will do for us in the future.
Aaron Bacher
Chairman, PCCN-Toronto Man to Man
Chairman in Our Voice
February 16, 2007
If you’re diagnosed
December 16, 2006
ERIN ANDERSSEN
From the Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 9, 2006
Prepare for appointments. Bring someone along to keep notes. Buy a tape recorder to use when you meet your doctor. Make a list of questions, and ask the most important ones first in case the doctor gets called away.
‘Follow the paper.’ Ask for copies of all your test results. Find out where they will be sent and when you can expect to get them. If you don’t hear back on time, call the office and find out their status. Breast-cancer survivor Virginia Yule, 56, puts it this way: “If you were having a refrigerator delivered on Tuesday, and it didn’t come at 11, by 12 you would be on the phone to see where it was. Papers do get lost . . . and if you don’t follow up on it yourself, you are partially responsible for it not being found.”
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