Prostate Cancer: The Latest Lifesaving Information

April 20, 2011  

Prostate Cancer: The Latest Lifesaving Information
An evening talk on Prostate Cancer

Sunnybrook Speaker Series
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:30-8:30 p.m Read more

New program at Sunnybrook Hospital shortens waiting times for prostate cancer diagnoses!

March 31, 2011  

Original article from CTV.ca News Staff

A Toronto hospital says it’s setting what it hopes is a new benchmark for telling men whether they have prostate cancer.

Instead of giving men their biopsy results in a matter of weeks, they receive them in just 72 hours. Read more

Team touts cancer ‘lab on a chip’

October 8, 2009  

(M2M comment- Dr. Aaron Wheeler at the Canadian Cancer Society Innovative Research in Cancer Event, Sept. 23, 2009, showed a similar device he is developing to detect Prostate Cancer.)

Joseph Hall    HEALTH REPORTER           TORONTO STAR

Aaron Wheeler holds a petri dish bearing a lump of breast tissue that resembles, in size and appearance, a piece of chewed gum.

In his right, the University of Toronto chemist holds a microchip array, about the size of a credit card, bearing a drop of red liquid about a thousand times smaller than the glob of flesh. The drop represents the minute amount of cells that Wheeler’s tiny board needs to accurately gauge estrogen levels in a woman’s breast tissue. Read more

PMH clinicians map group at high risk for aggressive, hidden prostate cancer

October 8, 2009  

from University Health Network
Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) can now answer the question that baffles many clinicians – why do some men with elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels who are carefully monitored and undergo repeated negative biopsies still develop aggressive prostate cancer? Read more

Analyzing Cancer Cells to Choose Treatments

September 30, 2009  

Microfluidics chips allow scientists to study circulating cancer cells and determine their vulnerabilities.

By Emily Singer         from   MIT Technology Review

In a new clinical trial for prostate cancer, scientists will capture rare tumor cells circulating in patients’ blood, analyze them using a specialized microchip, and use the results to try to predict how well the patient will respond to a drug. The trial reflects a new phase of personalized medicine for cancer, enabled by microfluidics technologies that can isolate scarce cancer cells and detect very small changes in gene expression. Read more

Microchip spots cancer quickly and painlessly

September 28, 2009  

by Megan Ogilvie & Joseph Hall
Toronto Star

Toronto researchers have developed a portable device they say will accurately diagnose prostate cancer in 30 minutes. Read more

Man to Man Training Session

October 28, 2008  

Attendees group

Pictured above are some of our volunteers who attended the Man to Man training session on Tuesday October 28, 2008 at Valleyview Residence. Pearse Murray, Ron Benson, Philip Albert, Phil Segal, David Lunt, Denis Farbstein, David Fine, John Dell and Gordon Burchill.
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Chairman in Our Voice

February 16, 2007  

Man to Man Toronto Chairman Aaron Bacher in Our Voice