Since 1989, he has served as the founder and facilitator of the San Diego prostate cancer Support Group, the first such group in San Diego and in the country. Dr. Barken also served on the Medical Advisory Board of PAACT (Patient Advocates for Advanced Cancer Treatments) and the Board of ECPCP (Educational Council for prostate cancer Patients). In addition, Dr. Barken was one of the founding members on the Board of the National prostate cancer Coalition. During his two years of service, he also sat on the NPCC Scientific Committee with Dr. Andy Von Eschenbach, who was currently the head of the NCI (National Cancer Institute).
Moving from patient empowerment to patient leadership, Dr. Barken and a group of activist patients founded the Prostate Cancer Research and Education Foundation in 1997. He now serves as Chairman of the Board and Medical Director of PC-REF. Dr. Barken is involved in Cryo Immunology approaches for prostate cancer in different stages of disease and for different cancers. He gives unbiased opinions on a wide variety of treatments that he knows first-hand: observation, surgery, radiation, radiation seeds, cryosurgery, laparoscopic surgery, laser surgery, Electroporation, HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound)medications and alternative medicine. His approach, through the M.E.D.S. Program, is to treat the whole person, body, mind and spirit, and not merely the diseased gland. He enjoys close, long term relationships with patients in all the different stages of prostate cancer, whether local or systemic.
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