Legendary singer and prostate most cancers survivor Sir Elton John, 77, is popping out of retirement to carry out on the Dreamfest live performance in San Francisco, California, to assist elevate cash for UCSF Benioff Youngsters’s Hospitals.
The thrilling information in regards to the annual Dreamforce occasion was introduced on Instagram this week by Salesforce, a high buyer relationship administration (CRM) software program supplier.
An announcement on Dreamforce’s web site additionally states, “The Rocket Man and legendary EGOT winner is about to take the stage for our epic live performance.
“Don’t miss this unique, once-in-a-lifetime efficiency. It’s all at Dreamforce and it’s all for a great trigger. Be there and assist us attain our all-time giving of $120 million in donations for UCSF Benioff Youngsters’s Hospitals.”
The occasion is about to happen on the Moscone Middle in San Francisco on September 17, 18, and 19 of this yr. And for these taken with viewing the upcoming occasion, however are unable to attend, it would solely broadcast free of charge on Salesforce+.
We’re delighted to see Elton John, who retired from touring final yr, making time to assist UCSF Benioff Youngsters’s Hospitals elevate cash together with his efficiency.
Elton John skill to encourage and impress his followers is heartwarming, and just some months again, he admitted he was completely happy to see his “I’m Nonetheless Standing” tune hit one billion streams on the Spotify app.
“This observe has had such a life and whether or not you realize it for its empowering lyrics, the legendary dance strikes from the music video, or @taron.egerton’s rendition as Johnny HD in ‘Sing,’ it makes me so completely happy to see it being loved by so many.”
One in all his followers even commented, “This was my theme tune throughout chemo!!!”
Elton John’s Prostate Most cancers Journey
Elton John was recognized with prostate most cancers in 2017 and had surgical procedure to deal with his illness, one thing which he impressively didn’t let gradual him down.
Following surgical procedure, he revealed that he even wore a diaper onstage throughout one in all his live shows in Las Vegas following his surgical procedure—since he hadn’t but regained management of his bladder.
In “Elton John: Uncensored,” an earlier interview with the singer on BBC One, Elton John recounted to Graham Norton that he wore a diaper underneath his outfit throughout a Las Vegas present in 2017.
“If solely they knew at that second I used to be pissing myself,” he stated.
Elton John additionally wrote about his most cancers prognosis in his e-book “Me,” saying, “I wasn’t as shocked at listening to the phrase ‘most cancers’ as I may need been. It was prostate most cancers: no joke, however extremely widespread.
“They’d caught it early, and apart from, I’m blessed with a structure that simply makes me bounce again from sicknesses.”
Fortunately, the surgical procedure he underwent to take away the most cancers was a hit. Nonetheless, 10 days later, the singer contracted a fever and a significant an infection.
“It turned out that I had a uncommon complication from the operation,” he wrote within the e-book, and he spent 11 days in a London hospital “questioning if I used to be going to die.”
The complication in the end impressed him him to take a while off of touring to spend time together with his husband David Furnish, and their sons, Zachary and Elijah.
On his determination to have the surgical procedure, John wrote, “Quite a lot of males gained’t have it, as a result of it’s a significant operation, you’ll be able to’t have intercourse for a minimum of a yr afterwards and you’ll’t management your bladder for some time.
“However successfully my youngsters made the choice for me. I didn’t like the thought of most cancers hanging over me us for years to come back: I simply needed rid of it.”
Understanding Prostate Most cancers
In case you or a beloved one has been recognized with prostate most cancers, it’s vital to do not forget that most forms of prostate cancers are treatable. In accordance with the Nationwide Most cancers Institute, the five-year survival fee of prostate most cancers within the U.S. is 97.1%. There may be, nevertheless, a small variety of males whose sort of prostate most cancers might change into unresponsive to remedy, for instance, when most cancers cells develop a resistance hormone remedy, the remedy might not work.
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Prostate most cancers begins within the prostate the walnut-shaped gland situated between the rectum and bladder that produces the fluid that nourishes sperm. Exterior of pores and skin cancers, prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers in American males with about one in eight males being recognized with this illness throughout his lifetime.
Serving to Sufferers Perceive Prostate Most cancers Remedy Choices
It’s vital to recollect a prostate most cancers prognosis isn’t at all times preceded by signs. And even when signs do happen, they are often inconsistent and onerous to pinpoint.
“Prostate most cancers is a really odd illness in that it doesn’t have a specific symptom,” Dr. Edwin Posadas, director of translational oncology and the medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars-Sinai, informed SurvivorNet.
Nonetheless, it’s vital to notice adjustments in urinary perform, like urinating roughly usually or waking up at evening to go greater than ordinary, may very well be an indication of prostate most cancers. So, even when you suppose there’s nothing to fret about, at all times discuss to your physician about adjustments to your well being once they happen.
There are a lot of completely different remedy choices for each early and later-stage prostate most cancers together with lively surveillance, watchful ready, surgical procedure, radiation, cryotherapy, hormone remedy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and focused remedy. The illness is one the place medical doctors might have differing opinions on the perfect remedy path to take, so don’t hesitate to ask a lot of questions and hunt down a number of opinions.
Second (& Third) Opinions Matter When Deciding Between Surgical procedure or Radiation
“I believe it behooves the affected person to have a number of discussions or second opinions, not solely by the urologist who did the biopsy and recognized that man, but additionally with different surgeons and different radiation oncologist simply to get a really circumspect view of what the remedy choices are,” Dr. Jim Hu, a urologic oncologist at Weill Cornell Drugs, informed SurvivorNet. “Oftentimes, I believe sufferers want to know that our well being system relies so much on fee-for-service medication.”
“And so due to this fact, lots of physicians, I believe, who’re very effectively intentioned, will imagine that their remedy is finest for that specific man,” Dr. Hu added.
Remedy Choices After a Prostate Most cancers Prognosis
Though there are quite a few remedies accessible for prostate most cancers, what your physician recommends will rely on what class of danger your illness falls underneath. Typically that will imply doing nothing in any respect.
Prostate most cancers is a slow-growing illness, so until it’s been a majorly delayed prognosis and in a extra superior stage, medical specialists will typically counsel actively monitoring the expansion, and the affected person will go in for check-ups each six months or no matter timeframe the physician deems finest.
Dr. David Smart, NYU Langone medical oncologist, explains how Gleason rating impacts remedy and prognosis
The Nationwide Complete Most cancers Community (NCCN) tips divides prostate most cancers into one in all six danger classes primarily based on how aggressive the most cancers seems underneath the microscope and the prospect of it coming again after remedy. These danger classes assist information remedy for the completely different subtypes of prostate cancers.
The primary danger classes for prostate most cancers are:
- Very-Low-Threat (VLR) and Low-Threat (LR)
- Favorable- (FIR) and Unfavorable-Intermediate-Threat (UFIR)
- Excessive-Threat (HR) and Very-Excessive-Threat (VHR)
Prostate cancers categorised as VLR or LR characterize the least aggressive types of most cancers. This categorization shall be recognized relying on variety of elements, together with:
- Your physician can’t really feel the most cancers on a bodily examination, or it occupies one-half or much less of 1 facet of the prostate
- Your PSA is lower than 10
- Your whole Gleason (which is how the prostate most cancers is graded) rating is 6
- In case your most cancers is categorized as VLR or LR, your physician might suggest lively surveillance, which is usually known as “watch and wait.”
Dr. Nicholas Nickols, a radiation oncologist on the UCLA Division of Radiation Oncology, summarizes lively surveillance as follows, ‘We fastidiously monitor the prostate most cancers for proof of development or not, after which provoke remedy later, if in any respect.”
Throughout lively surveillance, you gained’t obtain any remedy however your physician will key an eye fixed in your most cancers with a sequence of exams together with:
- PSA Ranges
- MRIs
- Repeat biopsies
It’s attainable that your most cancers might by no means progress to extra aggressive types of prostate most cancers. Energetic surveillance ought to assist your physician catch any adjustments or development.
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Sufferers on lively surveillance will be spared the unintended effects of pursuing the normal methods of treating prostate most cancers. If and when the illness turns into extra aggressive, as indicated by a rising PSA, growth of aggressive-looking illness on MRI, or growing Gleason rating, it could then be handled with surgical procedure, radiation, hormone remedy, chemotherapy, or a mixture of those therapies.
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