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LCA Acute Oncology Guidelines App improves management of cancer emergencies

The London Cancer Alliance (LCA), in conjunction with CW+ (the charity for Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust) has supported the…

A new innovative acute oncology e-learning course has been developed to help ensure that appropriate training and education is provided…

New Executive Committee – The committee has recently been significant expanded. We now have regional representatives, and new roles such as…

The AGM took place as usual at the NCRI conference in Liverpool. The main presentation covered issues such as manpower…

The slides from this meeting held in October of last year are posted here for members access. We are grateful to…

You may be interested in the recently published ACP book on Acute Oncology, Problem Solving in Acute Oncology edited by Ernie Marshall, Alison…

The new "Acute oncology on the acute medical unit" toolkit has been produced by the RCP. Author Dr Ernie Marshall,…

You can now follow us on twitter for : ACP publicity for example regarding prizes, surveys and conferences…

Dr Richard Osborne, Lead Clinician on the NICE Guidelines for CUP, is looking to compile a list of Acute Oncology practitioners (Consultants…

Emergency admissions for patients with cancer remain problematic despite the development of acute oncology. There is more that could be…

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.…