spcare.bmj.com/content/earl... Further reinforcement that H2 antagonists are not necessary with Paclitaxel.

Big thoughts today... I'm behind on opening my advent calendar... ...does that make Christmas come later?

A UK-first guideline has recommended that all patients should have pharmacogenetic testing to identify clinically relevant CYP2C19 genetic variants, regardless of indication #ukpharmacy #pharmacogenomics #bloodclots

Mostly 📌 this here so I can read it in detail later. BUT my immediate thoughts are we usually struggle to agree what is 100% right when comparing human Vs human on MMM tasks. So human Vs LLM? If you get 80% correct, will that mean there is at least one error for every patient who has polypharmacy

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... They say your 1st job gives you life skills. I hope these 1700 kids are currently learning skills about redundancy payments and legal requirements for consulting etc. One of them must have a lawyer dad(or mum)... Off to 👩🏻‍⚖️.. (Legally required to consult for 30d)

“While you are on chemotherapy …” Myths: - Avoid large social gatherings - Wash clothes w body fluids STAT - Use a separate toilet - Avoid all EtOH - Avoid certain foods, coffee --> lack evidence, cause harm academic.oup.com/jnci/article... great article from @csoncol.bsky.social #oncology

www.ft.com/content/5d6f... Wow. Rarely do I see a comments section so polarised. "Charitable" sponsorship offering "access" to key people is dodgy in my eyes. It's interesting sitting on the sidelines watching this stuff. Having previously been among it. You don't see conflict you are among

It’s 2025 and we’re still dosing drugs like it’s 1976. The saga of Cockcroft–Gault, FDA inertia, and the slow evolution of renal dosing equations. 🧮 pbfluids.com/2025/10/cock...

Sad but true. #AI

Every time I use a TV keyboard (you know the ones - remote control ABC move right right right right down down enter left left left left up up enter...) I think surely someone should have worked out the qwerty equivalent.

#ESMO25 Adam Gripping of @mdanderson.bsky.social discusses association of improved OS in #NSCLC and #Melanoma with administration of a mRNA COVID vaccine Translational work showing mechanism of increased INF-alpha leading to immune priming Phase III in development… @oncoalert.bsky.social

Oh god. Someone better warm up the cat scanners and have the Methyl Pred on standby Impressive results. Let's hope it's affordable and deliverable.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Oh you have to be kidding me... ... another crime to humanity

This is the sort of thing I do to lose half an hour of a Saturday! youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?... Fascinating. I feel @paulb3964.bsky.social will either love this, or say surely we all already know it's not a phonetic alphabet and doesn't belong to NATO!

✨#ESMO25✨ 🚨BREAKING: Phase 3 Data! 📈 Osimertinib + chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival vs. Osimertinib alone in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC. ✅ Reinforces its potential as a new first-line standard of care. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/ONCOnews18O-1

The threshold that #NICE uses to approve the use of medicines on the #NHS hasn’t increased for two decades — this may need to change to ensure patients are able to access new, effective medicines. #JoannaRobertson reports

New to the e-library: A Beginner’s Guide to Targeted Cancer Treatments and Cancer Immunotherapy - 2nd ed. (2025) Head to https://ow.ly/rqaC50X9UPi under ‘Immune System and Malignant Disease’ #RPSLibrary

The popular Introduction to Cancer Course is coming to Glasgow🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿in March 2026 📅 Thu 26th & Fri 26th March 🗺️ Glasgow 💡 New refreshed agenda 💷 £50/day ❗️ Save the date #BOPAITC bopa.org.uk/save-the-dat...

I don't often look in my spam folders. To be honest NHS mail does such a good job I rarely have to. I just looked in my Gmail. It's mostly full of legitimate marketing emails. To me that's not spam... ...I might never read them... But I don't think Google should delete them...

If the 🇺🇸 government doesn't believe in Climate change I cants see them doing anything with this. Which is interesting as you'd think big pharma will be knocking down their door to get them to use more expensive meds.. and clearly they are all in pharma's pocket

Interesting. We had a paper about this on the list for our #BOPA2025 @bopa.org.uk journal club last week... In the end we limited ourselves to 4 papers and this one just missed the cut. I'd never heard of Duffy null till the paper was added to the Journal Club potential discussion...

I would love to know if anyone other than council leaders think these signs cause confusion! I'm not sure " is the right symbology for transport signs and that upsets me more! (4m boat width restriction could confuse if width is actually <4m. They probably checked) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought this was funny and wanted to share it with you.

#BOPA2025 Day 3 summary 1. Elaine Vickers despite being blown off, thinks our next big things will be RAS inhibitors, protein degraders and vaccines. Two of them at least might be useful in pancreatic cancer which could really do with a boost

Not sure which workshop to attend at #BOPA2025 this morning? Ever been to a Journal Club and not known what to do? Never been to a Journal Club at all...? Come for a chat through 4 papers with friends. Hopefully build confidence/ skills reading 🗞️ ⏰10:30📍Meeting Room 1 #JournalClub

Every year the Symposia Organising Committee for #BOPA2025 books Elaine Vickers for the Sunday morning session. And every year she never fails to deliver anything but the best... If you are still in 🛏️... It's time to get up! Elaine's going to tell us what's coming next

Joseph Williams starting the #BOPA awards 🏆at the Titianic staircase #BOPA2025

#BOPA2025 #BOPA #Fellow Emma Foreman

#BOPA2025 #BOPA #Fellow Rob Duncombe

#BOPA2025 #BOPA #Fellow Jennifer Laskey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#BOPA2025 #BOPA #Fellow Jackie Lewis

#BOPA2025 #BOPA Thank you to @joewilliams4689.bsky.social who is stepping down as BOPA chair

#BOPA2025 #BOPA #Fellow Calum Polwart @shinyblackshoe.bsky.social

My highlights from Day 2 of #BOPA2025 👇🏼 1. As critical as I may be of government I'm hopeful that the door is open for someone who understands what we do to help us get out voice heard. 2. Compassion needs us to be in a good place to deliver good stuff for our patients.

I'm sure you'll all be relieved to know I'm not breaking out the kilt tonight at #BOPA2025 Awards dinner. (Obviously that's because I couldn't fit it in my hand 🧳 with the 🗡️ and nothing to do with it not fitting) #Titanic #Belfast

It's been a little while since @bopa.org.uk had a "motivational speaker" as their last presenter on Saturday. So I'm pretty excited Shane Martin is coming to present about "The psychology of renewal: seeking purpose & meaning in life & work" - make sure you are in the #BOPA2025 auditorium at 16:35

3 books to read...? Jinpa's book only takes a couple of days to read...

Oncology health professionals - 75% have compassion fatigue. #BOPA2025 🤯

Francis Report (2013) - defined transparency and candor but didn't define compassion but said that people should have an aptitude test of it

As a Glaswegian I use the word wee a fair bit. But I'm stunned by how much Northern Ireland uses "wee".

#BOPA2025 Investment in more radiology equipment is great. But unless you invest in more radiographers and radiologists then you don't improve capacity. Same applies in pharmacy. Investing in aseptic units is necessary but you need the resource them

So. Some 💭 on this. METASTATIC pancreatic cancer (±inoperable): Korana score always suggests thromboprophylaxis. We wouldn't dispense FOLFORINOX without anti-emetic so why is it OK to not check there is anticoagulation

I'm curious what a pharmacist thinks they can achieve I'm politics, and also what they think we can be doing to address some of the issues in #OncoPharm so I'm off to the 08:15 #BOPA2025 session to hear what Taiwo Owatemi, Member of Parliament for Coventry North West has to say...

If your boss thinks that #BOPA2025 is just a 🍺🍻🍾🍹🍸🍷🎉🎊... Remind them that the sessions on Saturday start at 07:30 and run through till 17:30, before the Awards Dinner and 💃🏼🕺🏼 starts. And that's with Friday not stopping until 20:30. And another 6 hours on Sunday!

Just reflecting on my best bits from Day 1 of #BOPA2025. I'm hoping the Opthalmic complications of SACT session has been recorded. Both that and the Cardio oncology within Hot Topics were great

Didn't get a chance to mention it at yesterday's #BOPA2025 SC #Nivolumab session... The amazing guys at #OpenPrescribing have built a SC Nivo tracker. Want to know if you are ahead of the cure - check this out: hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/niv...

If you are at #BOPA2025 and want to wander round some #posters then Rena Chaun and I will be taking a bit of a stroll through some pharmacy service development posters from 18:45 this evening. #posterwalk

Wowza. I feel less clear about what #UKPPLAB and @BOPA.org.uk @rpharms.com is trying to achieve having been to the leadership session. Someone somewhere has a plan in their head surely? So maybe someone needs to pitch that plan rather than jabber words about co-creation? You don't start...

Sharing posters that myself & NHSE colleagues are presenting this weekend at #BOPA2025. Our estimate capacity impact from upcoming drug approvals correlate well with those NICE makes, but we need to do more to share predictions. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

#BOPA2025 🤦🏼‍♂️