Other Conferences and Meetings and Events:

The National Federation of Prostate Cancer Support Groups

The 2017 Annual Conference and AGM of was held at Winterbourne House in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Chairman Roger Wotton welcomed over 80 delegates, including Peter Barton, Chairman of our Support Group, and opened the day with the AGM. You can see the slides from the morning session here including the Chairman's Report and the Finance Report. The morning session was rounded off with an Open Forum allowing delegates to raise issues of interest.

In the afternoon, we had presentations from Consultant Urological Surgeon Julian Shah together with Clinical Nurse Specialist Victoria Muir on "Incontinence and ED (Erectile Dysfunction) - Managing the issues for Men", Morven Masterton from PCUK on "Improving Treatment for Men suffering from ED" and from Clinical Oncologist Professor Nick James on "Clinical Trials post-STAMPEDE".

To read Julian Shah and Victoria Muir's slides, click here, Morven Masterton's slides, click here and Nick James's, click here
To watch the Open Forum (start at beginning), Julian Shah and Victoria Muir (start at 6:00), Morven Masterton (start at 1:08:00) and Nick James (start at 1:26:00), This also has Bob Arty from FOPS (a Hertfordshire PC support group) singing his song (start at 1:05:00).

A full report of the conference will be published in the August 2017 edition of Prostate Matters.

Our Support Group is a member of the Federation