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Approximately 1 in 10 metastatic prostate cancer patients develop osteoporotic fractures.
Whilst treatment for prostate cancer has meant patient are living longer we have to make sure they are also living better.
Testosterone removal, Androgen receptor targeted agents and steroids can all reduce bone strength.

We talk to Dr Xue-Yan Jiang who is part of a group preparing guidelines for bone health through the Royal College of Radiologists and British Association of Urological Surgeons.
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Approximately 15% of all lung cancer happen in non-smokers!!

We talk to Dr Tom Newsom-Davis a medical oncologist who specialises in lung cancer about this very specific group of lung cancers.
Tom is chair-elect of the British Thoracic Oncology Group and shares his experience of treating non-smoking related lung cancers and their driver mutations - EGFR, ROS-1 and ALK.
This is a fascinating discussion and Tom is such an engaging person to talk to.

If you have lungs you can get lung cancer.

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In this episode we discuss CDK4/6 inhibitors with Professor Mark Beresford, Clinical oncologist and chair of UK Breast cancer Group.

Mark shares his knowledge on why we are giving these drugs to patients with breast cancer and what patients can expect on them.
This is a really big group of patients and we hope this is useful for supporting them.

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To day we focus on the big 3 side effects of hormone manipulation in prostate cancer:
-Hot Flushes
-The 5 Ps of Fatigue
-Sexual Function
We talk to British Association or Urological Nursing trustee and nurse specialist Debbie Victor on strategies to manage these side effects.

This is aimed at helping patients help themselves so feel free to share with anyone you know having hormone therapy for prostate cancer.

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Hormone therapy is a key part of prostate cancer treatment. Removing access to testosterone starves prostate cancer and can cause a 'manopause' or male menopause symptoms.

We discuss this with clinical nurse and BAUN trustee- Debbie Victor.
We look at the impact of this on prostate cancer patients and what positive steps patients can take to tackle these side effects themselves.

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Dr Nicolo Battisti is the president of the Society of international geriatric oncology and a medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
He shares his thoughts and wisdom on how we can help our older patients and their carers recognise signs of frailty and how to tackle them.

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Part 2 of our Cancer in the elderly and assessing Frailty.
We talk to Dr Nicolò Battisti about what measures we can take to set up frailty assessment.

Great tips and advice.
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Not every older patient is frail and not every frail patient is old.

The incidence of cancer goes up rapidly in the older age groups with a big jump in incidence in the over 75 age group. We are treating increasing numbers of older patients with increasingly complex therapy.
This is often called a 'Silver Tsunami'.

We talk to Dr Nicolo Battisti - A medical oncologist - who is Clinical Lead of the Senior Adult Oncology Programme at the Royal Marsden Hospital and president of SIOG - the Society of Geriatric Oncology.

We discuss the impact of frailty on cancer therapy for older patients and how to assess frailty in patients.

This is part 1 of 2 of an excellent session!!

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Mike & John