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...

Warning issued over drug touted as miracle cancer cure

Actor Mel Gibson claimed his friends had become cancer-free after taking the drug.

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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...

Team fundraising for Sussex Cancer Fund & RNLI

Help Joanna Stokoe raise money to support Sussex Cancer Fund

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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...

ASCO Day 4: The Birmingham Screwdriver

My father used to upholster furniture. It’s a skilled job that required great care.

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Day 2 at #ASCO25 ‘Why Not?’ www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

ASCO Day 2: Podcasts, trust and "Why not?" | Richard Simcock

Day 2 at ASCO: Why podcasts are good, trust is fading and that “‘The difficult is hard, the impossible is a little bit harder.” And more AI...

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A trial at #ASCO25 showing that podcasts improve education and confidence in oncology trainees will be no surprise to @radchat.bsky.social !

Some thoughts from D1 #ASCO25 yesterday www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

Day 1 at ASCO: Innovation, inequity, and inevitably, AI. | Richard Simcock

Reflections from Day 1 at ASCO: Innovation, inequity and the inevitability of AI

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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

Patient Information Forum@pifonline.bsky.social · last yr.

1 in 10 people have been harmed by health misinformation. We are proud to partner with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social's Ethnography Centre of Excellence to highlight this important issue. Our new film explores the impact of health misinformation – and how we tackle it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCX...

Because I want good news in my life… New cancer centre approved at Brighton hospital www.bbc.com/news/article...

New cancer centre approved at Royal Sussex Hospital

The cancer centre at the Brighton hospital will include more inpatient beds, the NHS trust says.

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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 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 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...

📌 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

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

Improving patient understanding of GEP test results (IMPARTER4): an RCT

Objective Explaining gene expression profiling (GEP) test results to patients can be challenging. We examined the utility of two 8 min films about Oncotype DX and Prosigna to aid the knowledge and dec...

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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.

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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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...

Efficacy of Hand Cooling and Compression in Preventing Taxane-Induced Neuropathy

This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of hand cooling and compression in reducing the risk of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with breast cancer.

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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.

reality show host president, podcast host vice president

Texas measles outbreak marks first fatality, with more cases being reported - STAT #medsky A preventable death, unprevented.

A double bill of Rebecca Frecknall in one week (Cabaret on Broadway and Streetcar in the West End) has been amazing soul food. I feel very lucky.

I want to be clear once more that every single vaccine on the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States has already been subjected to a randomized clinical trial. There is no evidence that giving more than one of these vaccines within the time period specified by the schedule poses any risk.

That incredible pair @radchat.bsky.social have launched their website If you know you know If you don't - have a look - kudos for their work to start building a library of clinical #radonc images across a range of skin tones and demographics www.radchat.co.uk/image-library

A short video from the Royal Family on life after a cancer diagnosis With reflections from Macmillan, @cancerresearchuk.org Maggies, people affected by cancer and me x.com/royalfamily/...

Is it possible to block words and phrases on this app, in order to maintain sanity and avoid a doom-scroll feed? Just for example “Trump” ?

Scientific representatives of big pharma do themselves no favours when they come onto #R4Today and decline to talk about side effects *at all*

This survey of text messages received by US Oncologists (its a lot!) 97 hours a year per oncologist answering them But it's what a modern patient would expect, and there is a lot of work to do here in routing appropriate queries to the right staff quickly jnccn.org/view/journal...