With some incredible actuarial input from the team at Scottish Widows we have launched a projection of cancer prevalence in the UK for 2045.
A 58% increase. 5.4 million people living with or beyond cancer.
A combination of ageing, rising incidence and better treatments accounting for the rise.
Multiple calls to our Macmillan helplines about Ivermectin.
Always check with your medical teams or call us at Macmillan but in this piece I’m clear that there is no current place for it in treatment protocols.
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2114...
My Oncologist colleague Jo Stokoe is *right now* currently aiming to be the 165th person to swim the North Channel.
No wetsuit
Lions Mane jellyfish
And all in aid of the @RNLI and @SxCancerFund
Donate here 👇
www.justgiving.com/team/jos-nor...
Dynamic-III schema
Outcomes data
Dynamic-III guided ctDNA
Looks like ctDNA useful to predict recurrence (possible surrogate endpoint), but not yet found a role in predicting treatment escalation/de-escalation in Colorectal ca
#UKOF25
31 years ago I first started medic-ing alongside this lovely human @nikjohnson.bsky.social
To be back at #NHSConfedExpo and hearing from him how devolution could improve the public health was all that I didn’t know I needed
Were there any great questions at #ASCO25 ?
Final round up from Day 4 of #ASCO25
www.linkedin.com/pulse/asco-d...
Day 2 at #ASCO25
‘Why Not?’
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
A trial at #ASCO25 showing that podcasts improve education and confidence in oncology trainees will be no surprise to
@radchat.bsky.social !
TLDR
- it’s a thoughtful program
- tweaks to presenter format makes messaging clearer
- you need to make way for AI
- inequity data is as stark as ever
Some thoughts from D1 #ASCO25 yesterday
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
People with cancer deserve truthful and understandable health information.
Macmillan are proud to have the PIF tick and to be a source of reliable cancer information
Because I want good news in my life…
New cancer centre approved at Brighton hospital www.bbc.com/news/article...
Runcorn worn by 6 votes on a turnout of only 46.2% tells me two things:
Your vote is always important
Too many people think it isn’t
A cartoon of a doctors office. A patient lies on the couch but there is another person sat with a laptop. The doctor explains to the patient that she ‘is the fact chacker’
A blog for Macmillan on misinformation in cancer
Inspired by this cartoon in The New Yorker exhibition currently at NY Public Library
www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-p...
A cartoon of a doctors office. A patient lies on the couch but there is another person sat with a laptop. The doctor explains to the patient that she ‘is the fact chacker’
A blog for Macmillan on misinformation in cancer
Inspired by this cartoon in The New Yorker exhibition currently at NY Public Library
www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-p...
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Wonder if you could ask the nice ChemoCare @CISOncology (on X) people to include the site in their quicklinks Info sources tab?
Thanks for this
Sounds like a useful project!
📌 Awareness of genomic testing among patients with breast cancer in Europe 🧬
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@oncoalert.bsky.social #OncoAlertAF @breastdocuk.bsky.social
@csabadegi.bsky.social
The videos which have been carefully tested and translated are here and available in 9 languages
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
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www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Explaining genomic tests (Oncotype DX) can be difficult
The IMPARTER studies shows a that a video helps understanding:
bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
See post below for links to videos
Since I just posted something the Post did that was very good, I am obligated to post this with the observation that this is very bad.
I presumed that ❄️ produced some vasoconstriction in control hand as a systemic response to the cold stimulus?
I read it as 2 smalls, and yes it does reduce cannula options
I tried it -
2 surgical gloves one size smaller than the tight fitting size - and it hurt!
(FWIW I only managed 10 minutes in a cold cap when I tried that too!)
A tight surgical glove.
Simple and elegant study of compression to reduce taxane neuropathy in people with #breastcancer acting as their own control (dominant hand)
Room for bias, a 20% withdrawal rate and small sample (n=101) but a meaningful reduction in CIPN
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Nicola Ranger from @rcn.org.uk on safe staffing:
There is legislation that a dog walker can have no more than 6 dogs
Yet no legal limit on how many sick people a nurse can be asked to manage
This obituary to Sheffield pathologist Kim Survana is a reminder that we can all choose to deal with cancer differently.
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