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Welcome Address from new ACP Chair, Professor Andrew Wardley
It is a great honour to be appointed the Chair of the Association of Cancer Physicians. I would like to thank Professor David Cunningham for his leadership through the extremely turbulent COVID crisis, and the challenges faced by…
A Message from our outgoing Chair
It has been a great privilege and pleasure to be the ACP Chair over the past five years. During this time advances in cancer medicine have continued at great pace with personalised medicine immunotherapy therapy extending the roles into virtually…
The ACP thanks David Cunningham for his service
The Executive Committee and membership would like to thank David Cunningham for his stunning efforts for us over the last 5 years during which he has been chair of the Executive Committee of the ACP. David has steered us through…
National Clinical Impact Awards 2023
The 2023 National Clinical Impact Awards (formerly Clinical Excellence Awards) round is now open. In previous years the ACP has been able to support applications as a National Nominating Organisation. The process has changed in 2023; although the ACP no longer has a formal…
Professor Kenneth D Bagshawe CBE FRS FRCP FRCOG FRCR
The ACP was sad to hear of the recent death of Ken Bagshawe. A founding member of the ACP and a pioneer in the development of medical oncology in the UK, he was a consultant medical oncologist at Charing Cross…
SACT consent forms from the UK Chemotherapy Board – Updates
National regimen-specific consent forms continue to be regularly reviewed and updated, in addition to new forms being released. New forms have recently been added for LUNG CANCER. All available forms are available on the CRUK website here. The UK Chemotherapy Board has…
Problem Solving in Cancer and Fertility
Awarded first prize in the BMA 2022 Medical Book Awards – Oncology category. Congratulations to Lena Karapanagiotou, Janine Mansi and co-editors. Further details of this title, and others in the ACP/EBN Problem Solving series of books, here. Discounts for ACP…
Recommendations for red blood cell transfusion when stocks are low
Red blood cell stocks are currently low. The RCR and ACP have published recommendations for oncology teams for red blood cell transfusion in adults when red blood cell stocks are low. The recommendations are available here
AGM 2022
The 37th Annual General Meeting of the ACP was held on Monday 3rd October 2022. For those unable to attend, the slide presentation is available to download. AGM 2022 Presentation
New free Genomics e-learning resource
The ACP has collaborated with the RCR to develop a brand new e-learning resource on the Fundamentals of Cancer Genomics, targeted at medical and clinical oncologists, as well as HCPs involved in the care of patients with cancer. The resource…