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Another Wine and Wildlife success By Dongyun Kwon Healesville Sanctuary once again became a venue for local drinks to connect with a wider audience over the weekend of 30-31 August. Twenty-two Yarra Valley wineries, breweries and distilleries participated in the 2025 Wine and Wildlife, bringing their cellar doors on-site. Turn to page 10 to check out photos of the event taken by Star Mail journalist Dongyun Kwon
Stag Lane Distillery’s James (left) and Jacob introducing their gins to visitors. (Dongyun Kwon: 500000)
Cancer aid on hand By Mikayla van Loon For men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer, of which there are more than 70 per day around the country, finding support and guidance is an essential part of treatment. That’s why groups like the Ringwood Prostate Cancer Support Group exist, to ensure men and their partners don’t have to go through it alone. As the furthest support group out east, the Ringwood group brings men together at all stages of their treatment and recovery from the Yarra
Ranges, Knox and Maroondah. With September being Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, not only was the message at the regular monthly meeting on Tuesday 26 August to get tested but to find support among men who are going through the same thing. Meeting on the fourth Tuesday of every month, with guest speakers in attendance, this month saw Eastern Health’s specialist prostate cancer nurses Mel Caruso and Amelia Rolfs, present the current available treatments and side effects.
Mel said pre-2015 androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) was really the only treatment available, but the medical field has “progressed greatly” since then, now offering radiotherapy and chemotherapy alongside hormone therapy and surgery. Unfortunately, ADT or hormone therapy does come with some side effects that need to be monitored. “It just blocks the testosterone in your body. Testosterone is like a fuel to prostate cancer cells,
but by reducing your testosterone, you’re going to experience a lot of side effects. So it is like menopausal like side effects,” Mel said. The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) has support services available, including a trained volunteer telephone-based service called MatesCONNECT, which connects men with someone who has been through prostate cancer and a Prostate Cancer Counselling Service that’s free of charge for men and their partners. Turn to page 7 to read the full article
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