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The slides from this meeting held in October of last year are posted here for members access. We are grateful to our sponsors Macmillan, CRUK, Roche and Eisai for their support of this educational meeting.  It was endorsed by SIOG (International…

You may be interested in the recently published ACP book on Acute Oncology, Problem Solving in Acute Oncology edited by Ernie Marshall, Alison Young, Peter Clark and Peter Selby, which has been produced in collaboration with the ACP and has been sponsored by the…

The new "Acute oncology on the acute medical unit" toolkit has been produced by the RCP. Author Dr Ernie Marshall, is a consultant medical oncologist at the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology. Download no longer available. The toolkit includes: …

You can now follow us on twitter for : ACP publicity for example regarding prizes, surveys and conferences Oncology updates from conferences  Oncology updates of new important papers Links to any new…

Dr Richard Osborne, Lead Clinician on the NICE Guidelines for CUP,  is looking to compile a list of Acute Oncology practitioners (Consultants and nurses with an AO responsibility) in the UK with a view to organising an online forum. Acute Oncologists and…

Emergency admissions for patients with cancer remain problematic despite the development of acute oncology.  There is more that could be done to improve their care and subsequent experiences and outcomes. A joint RCP/RCR working party was established in 2010…

Check out this interesting article in The Guardian, discussing the issues facing patients after treatment for cancer.

Without much fanfare this new publication from the DoH spells out the strategy for improving cancer outcomes in the NHS. Also watch this excellent video interview with Mike Richards and RCP Chairman Clare Gerada, hosted by Doctors.net, discussing some of…

Prompted by the findings of NCEPOD reports into deaths within 30 days of systemic anticancer treatment, and also deaths within 96 hours of admission to hospital, a joint RCP/RCR working group is now developing a framework that would enable timely…

Despite previous assurances that there would be no further top-down reorganisation of the NHS after the election that is exactly what has been proposed by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley; read the House of Commons statement and responses here. This is…