While we all must remain safe and socially distant due to COVID-19 restrictions, it is important for everyone to continue to monitor and address their health concerns, and stay connected to others. Us TOO has virtual prostate cancer support groups that continue to meet regularly and host guest speakers. These meetings can be accessed by phone or by internet, and can be attended from any location. For a list of groups, please visit:
We welcome our new Us TOO support group in Huntsville, Alabama! Their first virtual support group meeting will take place on February 18th at 7pm Central. They will then meet the third Thursday of each month. To register to join the virtual meeting from any location, please contact David McElhaney at
damcelhaneyustoo@gmail.com.
Speakers coming up in the next month include:
February 17th
6pm Eastern
Man Cave Health Presents:
Men's Health Virtual Support Group
Speaker: Ash Tewari, MD - Chairman of Urology at Mount Sinai.
February 18th
6pm Eastern
Us TOO New York Presents:
How Precision Medicine and Novel Prostate Cancer
Treatments Can Benefit You
Speaker: Cora N. Sternberg, MD, FACP - Clinical Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine.
February 23rd
7pm Eastern
Negative Impacts of Radiation or Surgery
Q&A with Geetha Rao, MD - Medical Director of Radiation Oncology at Piedmont Fayette Hospital.
February 25th
7:00 - 8:30pm Central
Us TOO Presents:
Webinar: What is Right for Me in My Prostate Cancer Treatment? -
Bone Health and Nutrition
Speakers: Gregory Lewis, MD - Senior Urologist at Advanced Urology Associates and AUA Prostate Cancer Center; Christine M. Palumbo, RDN, FAND - Nutrition Consultant; and moderator Jamie Kearns, MD - Assistant Professor of Urology at Atrium Health and Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, NC.
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Us TOO offers virtual support for female caregivers of men with prostate cancer with
A Forum for Her. For information on this group, visit
www.ustoo.org/aforumforher. To join one of the
Forum calls, or to volunteer to host a group for about an hour per month, please contact Terri Likowski at
terril@ustoo.org.
We also offer support for gay men and their partners with
A Prostate Cancer Forum for Gay Men and Their Partners. For information on the group, visit
www.ustoo.org/forumforgaymen. To join one of these calls, please contact Terri Likowski at
terril@ustoo.org.
AnCan offers a wide range of virtual support groups for men at every stage of prostate cancer. For more information, visit
www.ancan.org/prostate-cancer.
The Reluctant Brotherhood hosts virtual meetings - "This call is for men living with cancer, any cancer at any stage. This is not a very technical call because we talk about what is going on inside our hearts and minds. We poke around with our emotional lives, the unmeasurable stuff." For information, please visit
www.thereluctantbrotherhood.org.
