On the occasion of World Prostate Cancer Day, June 11, ROC Clinic held the I Prostate Cancer Forum together with the newspaper La Razón at the newspaper’s headquarters last Wednesday 17:30. The event is available on the Internet so that anyone who wishes can watch it on a recorded version through this link.
The A Tu Salud supplement included the main conclusions of this meeting, which brought together doctors, patient associations and patients to analyze the importance of early detection, treatments and the needs of patients.
The event began with a welcome by the editor of the newspaper, Francisco Marhuenda, and the intervention of Javier Romero-Otero, director of the Department of Urology of HM Hospitales and medical director of ROC Clinic, who moderated the first panel of experts in which Dr. Alfredo Rodríguez Antolín, head of the Urology Department of the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, participated; Karim Touijer, expert in prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York; and Juan Francisco Rodríguez Moreno, coordinator of the prostate cancer and melanoma area at HM CIOCC.
During our interventions, we highlighted the importance of making the male population aware of the importance of attending annual check-ups because, in the event of a diagnosis of prostate cancer, we currently have a variety of solutions that we can customize for each specific case together with a multidisciplinary team.
This was followed by a second panel of patients, which included the interventions of Ana Isabel González Márquez, head of the Programs and Services Area at the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC); Marcos Martínez Cortés, manager of GEPAC; Lara Fernández Rodríguez, psycho-oncologist at GEPAC; Santiago Gómez Díaz, first vice-president of ANCAP, and Félix Alonso Navas, a prostate cancer patient.
In this second part of the meeting, associations and patients expressed their needs and points of view on the disease and spoke openly about the taboo that currently exists to speak openly about prostate cancer and its emotional, functional and sexual consequences.
