Scannings and Blood Profile Tests Promotion

PCSM endeavours to seek partnerships with our many Corporate Support Group members. The NCSM & PCSM Partnership Programme offers the above promotions exclusively for PCSM members in 2021.

 

PCSM Donation Drive

 PCSM is self funded and does not enjoy grants from the Government and charitable organisations. Do donate to support our many activities nation wide. Thank you for your generosity. 

Prostate Cancer Society Malaysia (PCSM)

 

I was in Hospital HUKM late last year waiting to see my Urologist when I chanced upon to meet up with my old friend Mr Wong Kuan Sing. Mr KS Wong and I were early members of the PCSM. I recalled the early years of PCSM circa 2010 under our past President Mr Das. PCSM was then a small organisation catering to PCA survivors in the Klang Valley only. I fondly remembered our bimonthly meetings in NCSM and Subang Medical Hospital and had many fun gatherings and activities. I also recalled we teamed up in the UMMC Exercise Support Group with the lovely Candy Girls. Great and sporting ladies under the Breast Cancer Support Group in NCSM. The Exercise Support Group was facilitated by Professor Nahar from the UM Faculty of Sport Science. We did gym workouts and danced Zumba in upbeat tunes like "We shall rock you". 

Mr KS Wong is now the incumbent President of  PCSM which had grown in strength to have registered regional centres covering the whole of Malaysia. Under the capable leadership of Mr KS Wong and his Committee Members, PSCM organises scheduled meetings and talks in all the regional centres. The Covid 19 Pandemic has stopped all physical meetings,  making PCSM to adopt digital presence by having Whatsapps chatgroups, Facebook Webinars, and Zoom meetings. PCSM organises frequent talks by Urologists and Oncologists for its members in Zoom.

Mr Peter Wong is the incumbent President of Exercise Support Group

Col Allen Lai leads the Research Support Group and IT Support Group

Several key hospitals in the Klang Valley are in the Corporate Support Group

A Community Forum is under construction to serve PSCM members better

My PSA Graph and Chart as at April 2021

 

2020 The Covid 19 Pandemic Year

 2020 the Covid 19 pandemic brought the whole world to its knees. Every thing were halted and locked down. Most hospitals in the country were remodelled to be Covid 19 centres causing massive disruptions in scheduled hospital check ups and visits.

I was also effected by the frequent movement orders in place and strict compliance to MOH health requisites and SOPs. I requested to delay my scheduled PSA check ups and monitoring to 6 months as my PSA baseline for the year was 1.5. Had a check up in August 2020 and recorded the PSA level rising slowly to 1.65.  All was good until my PSA rose sharply in 2021 surpassing the BCR marker level of 2.0 for RT treatments. Time for a PSMA scan for metastasis.  Col Allen