My Active Surveillance Journey

Posted by brianjarvis @brianjarvis, Jul 30 7:34am

This will be a new experience for me on this 13+ year prostate cancer journey —> Tonight (July 30th) at 7:00 (ET), I’ll be presenting about my experience leading up to and during my 9 years on active surveillance (before I eventually chose proton beam radiation treatments).

I’m told that this is the Zoom link that they’ll be using: https://zoom.us/j/95716226703

Brian

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vircet | @vircet | Jul 30 10:01am

Are you presenting, or "hosting and presenting (both)"? I plan to watch (listen to) your presentation. Thank you.

jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | Jul 30 10:16am

See you there.

brianjarvis | @brianjarvis | Jul 30 1:11pm

In reply to @vircet "Are you presenting, or "hosting and presenting (both)"? I plan to watch (listen to) your presentation...." + (show)

Presenting.

johndavis60 | @johndavis60 | Jul 30 7:41pm

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Nice job Brian!

mauk | @mauk | Jul 30 7:55pm

Sorry, missed it. Any recording availbale

jeff Marchi | @jeffmarc | Jul 30 8:28pm

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Very interesting research.

vircet | @vircet | Jul 30 8:47pm

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I'm happy I watched your presentation. It had two parts actually.
Part I - Your Active Surveillance Journey (9+ years)
Part II - Your Treatment Journey (5 years).
You covered a lot, i.e., more than I expected.
Thanks!

P.S. Although I didn't go through active surveillance, I think that after my first ever PSA test, I was lucky to have been fast-tracked to "biopsy, nuclear medicine whole body bone scan, CT scan, unfavorable intermediate, and SBRT" all within six months. I will be on Orgovyx for a total of about six months, ending the second week of October 2025.

brianjarvis | @brianjarvis | Jul 31 7:49am

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Sometimes it’s good to look back and see how far we’ve actually come (and learned) on this prostate cancer journey.

brianjarvis | @brianjarvis | Jul 31 7:51am

In reply to @mauk "Sorry, missed it. Any recording availbale" + (show)

I noticed that they turned on the recording a couple of minutes into the presentation. I’ll have to ask where that is.

brianjarvis | @brianjarvis | Jul 31 7:55am

In reply to @vircet "I'm happy I watched your presentation. It had two parts actually. Part I - Your Active..." + (show)

For each of us, there are those decision points where our paths can diverge.

Though I highlighted my treatment journey, that also has required making decisions that could’ve led down different paths. (I have a separate presentation covering these more recent 4+ years.)