Today we launched the first OReCO (Optimising Rectal Cancer Outcomes) workshop in Basingstoke in collaboration with @ACPGBI.
The Wessex Chapter Workshop proved a huge success. Thank you to all the attendees for your valuable input into the sessions.
#Pelican_OReCO
The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay
They strike tomorrow
This letter is incredible
I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it
Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥Our honorary secretary of @RSMcoloproct gives us a whistle-stop tour of our upcoming overseas meeting in #Stockholm. Places still available and if you are a trainee remember to apply for our travelling fellowships 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
New travelling fellowships for 4 trainees to have the opportunity to win £500 towards the cost of travel to this @RSMcoloproct meeting! Open to all #colorectalsurgery trainees.
Important message from our council president on the upcoming Stockholm summer meeting of @RSMcoloproct - make sure to book your weekend! And look out for some more exciting news for Coloproctology trainees very shortly !! @RoySocMed
Read this very soon after excitedly taking a photo of an actual locker with my name on it (first time in 13 years of surgical training!!). Amazing how little it takes to improve morale. Equal size locker rooms with a predominantly female workforce is part of the problem.
In the last few years I have been lucky enough to work with the most supportive and wonderful consultants, male and female
One of them asked me ‘is all this sexism & sexual harassment in surgery stuff true?’
And I realised, despite my own discomfort, I had to speak up
Today we’re hosting our Annual Basingstoke Rectal Cancer Symposium in Basingstoke.
It’s been wonderful to meet our attendees today.
During the day we have over 14 guest speakers. We hope everyone enjoys the day.
#PelicanCancerFoundation#RectalCancer
Best to ignore LNs on CT to stage colon cancer. Focus on
- tumour stage (>T3c)
- EMVI
- tumour deposits (the bad nodes)
@DaniloMisko looking at this with @prof_gina_brown@AmyLord1@muti192 and I have also looked at this with Prof Brown.
RCT Colonoscopy screening vs not.
Age 55-64
42% uptake
455 scopes to prevent 1 CRC
CRC mortality 0.28% vs 0.31%
All cause mortality 11.03% vs 11.04%
This is why research needs to inform policy, not just modelling
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… C
Patients staged as low risk by MRI do not benefit from preoperative treatment. NICE 2020 guidelines results in overtreatment.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
Many of these "high risk" patients (as per NICE guidelines) actually have an excellent prognosis and are unlikely to benefit from radiotherapy, but may well suffer side effects and long term harm.