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Ben Ayres

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And so whatever we can do to support patients and to help meet the unmet psychosocial needs of these patients, of our patients, it's important that partners are very much included in everything that we do to not only help us support the patients, but in supporting them as well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And so whatever we can do to support patients and to help meet the unmet psychosocial needs of these patients, of our patients, it's important that partners are very much included in everything that we do to not only help us support the patients, but in supporting them as well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And so whatever we can do to support patients and to help meet the unmet psychosocial needs of these patients, of our patients, it's important that partners are very much included in everything that we do to not only help us support the patients, but in supporting them as well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So Rick, earlier on you talked about information and the role of advocacy in trying to produce information that is really patient-focused and the information that patients would like to hear. And I know when I've spoken to many of the penile cancer patients that I see and work with and those that have come through their treatment, they talk about the fact that

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So Rick, earlier on you talked about information and the role of advocacy in trying to produce information that is really patient-focused and the information that patients would like to hear. And I know when I've spoken to many of the penile cancer patients that I see and work with and those that have come through their treatment, they talk about the fact that

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So Rick, earlier on you talked about information and the role of advocacy in trying to produce information that is really patient-focused and the information that patients would like to hear. And I know when I've spoken to many of the penile cancer patients that I see and work with and those that have come through their treatment, they talk about the fact that

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

The information wouldn't have stopped them having the treatment. They knew they needed to have the treatment. This was cancer. This needed to be treated if they had any chance of survival. But the consequences of the treatment for some patients are devastating and carry life-changing consequences.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

The information wouldn't have stopped them having the treatment. They knew they needed to have the treatment. This was cancer. This needed to be treated if they had any chance of survival. But the consequences of the treatment for some patients are devastating and carry life-changing consequences.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

The information wouldn't have stopped them having the treatment. They knew they needed to have the treatment. This was cancer. This needed to be treated if they had any chance of survival. But the consequences of the treatment for some patients are devastating and carry life-changing consequences.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And they say very strongly that they feel as much information as possible up front written by patients would make a difference. What's your experience around that? And how can we as clinicians, those of us that are looking after patients, how can we develop this material? How can we deliver this for our patients?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And they say very strongly that they feel as much information as possible up front written by patients would make a difference. What's your experience around that? And how can we as clinicians, those of us that are looking after patients, how can we develop this material? How can we deliver this for our patients?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

And they say very strongly that they feel as much information as possible up front written by patients would make a difference. What's your experience around that? And how can we as clinicians, those of us that are looking after patients, how can we develop this material? How can we deliver this for our patients?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

Yeah, thank you, Rob. And I've talked already about this being a journey and is a journey for the patient. And we're there to support and help them along that journey. And I think it's really important to appreciate that when you see them for the first time in clinic, you've got to take a holistic approach. You've got to do it as part of a multidisciplinary team.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

Yeah, thank you, Rob. And I've talked already about this being a journey and is a journey for the patient. And we're there to support and help them along that journey. And I think it's really important to appreciate that when you see them for the first time in clinic, you've got to take a holistic approach. You've got to do it as part of a multidisciplinary team.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

Yeah, thank you, Rob. And I've talked already about this being a journey and is a journey for the patient. And we're there to support and help them along that journey. And I think it's really important to appreciate that when you see them for the first time in clinic, you've got to take a holistic approach. You've got to do it as part of a multidisciplinary team.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So we have a nurse specialist that will support us. And we approach the topics that we need to approach, but see this as the very start of the journey and that we will have, hopefully, several more interactions with the patient prior to the treatment starting. Now, we don't want to add delay to the pathway with cancer. You want to get that treatment started quickly. So these will be...

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So we have a nurse specialist that will support us. And we approach the topics that we need to approach, but see this as the very start of the journey and that we will have, hopefully, several more interactions with the patient prior to the treatment starting. Now, we don't want to add delay to the pathway with cancer. You want to get that treatment started quickly. So these will be...

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

So we have a nurse specialist that will support us. And we approach the topics that we need to approach, but see this as the very start of the journey and that we will have, hopefully, several more interactions with the patient prior to the treatment starting. Now, we don't want to add delay to the pathway with cancer. You want to get that treatment started quickly. So these will be...

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

Telephone calls, perhaps video calls with today's technology. After that initial consultation, I think once you've built a bit of a relationship up with the patient, that doctor-patient relationship, you can then talk to them time and again afterwards to help build the information that they need. We give them written information.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 199 Addressing Isolation and the Psychosocial Needs of Penile Cancer Patients with Rob Cornes and Rick Bangs

Telephone calls, perhaps video calls with today's technology. After that initial consultation, I think once you've built a bit of a relationship up with the patient, that doctor-patient relationship, you can then talk to them time and again afterwards to help build the information that they need. We give them written information.