For everyone in the Reading area.. can you help to find a lost space bear! 🧪🌎🛰📡 @bbowt.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Insights From SIOG 2025: Managing Toxicities and Surgical Decision-Making in Older Adults With Cancer @siogorg.bsky.social oncodaily.com/oncolibrary/... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #SIOG25Years #SIOG25th #SIOG25 #SIOG2025 #GeriatricOncology #GeriOnc

This is a really helpful article about under and over treatment in older adults with cancer

👵👴 Older adults often face frailty, sarcopenia, falls, multimorbidity and polypharmacy. This new framework—published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity (2025)—shows how integrating exercise prescription with medication management can transform care. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What is your best advice for a health care provider just starting out, learning Supported Self Management skills? The Pain Toolkit Academy is a good starting point paintoolkit.thinkific.com #InspireSelfMgt #paintoolkitacademy #livingwellskillz #prehab #selfmgtliving #pssmw26

Many breast cancer survivors face diminished quality of life due to estrogen deprivation. This review provides updated guidance on vulvovaginal health, safe treatments, and strategies to support endocrine therapy adherence. Full article 👉 buff.ly/RmCbexo #CancerResearch #BreastCancer #Survivorship

Having been involved in the roll out of social prescribing it’s good to see that there is indeed an impact. This team used sensible outcome measures and showed a small but definite change in multiple indicators. Time to stop trying to answer daft questions about SP tho (eg reductions in admissions)

CPOC Fellow Alex Isted outlines to the Advisory Group how the @england.nhs.uk 10-Year Plan aims to shift care from sickness to prevention. By using perioperative care and turning waiting lists into preparation lists we can help drive this change. More info: shorturl.at/SrU6I

I was just a normal woman. The normalest woman in the world! Totally normal! Then: breast cancer in my 30s. My reality changed forever. Do you relate? Then you might enjoy my book. “This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is out now in the UK and USA.

Diarrhoea, constipation, urgency or going often 💩 are common symptoms of #PelvicRadiationDisease Our guide to diet, nutrition and PRD is a free, downloadable resource: prda.org.uk/resources/#PelvicRadiationDisease #LateEffects #RadiationEnteritis #RadiationProctitis #RadiationColitis #RadiationProctopathy

Join the International Thoracic Oncology Nursing Forum for a free global webinar, Living Your Life with Lung Cancer, on 19 November. Covering surgery, adjuvant therapy, nutrition and intimacy. Register ow.ly/S71I50Xt0xZ #LCAM2025 #LungCancerAwarenessMonth

Gorgeous tiny little fungi 🍄‍🟫in Richmond Park 🦌 Anyone know what kind they are?

We recently saw a randomized trial of exercise markedly improve cancer disease-free survival www.nejm.org/doi/full/10..... How can this be explained? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today in @JAMAOnc, we stressed the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration as the best way to mitigate effects and protect the #hearts of #cancer patients. Read the positioning statement: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

📰 HOT OFF THE PRESSES 📰 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (#ICIs) treatments are known to potentially cause harm to the heart, particularly through conditions like #myocarditis.

Read about my view on late side effects after modern radiotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma. Much progress since the days of mantle therapy. Don’t abandon radiotherapy at the cost of more relapses. medicaljournalssweden.se/actaoncologi...

In this MASCC Short Talk, Dr. Munjal Acharya discusses recent research in repurposing medications to tackle CIPN. Watch now: vimeo.com/1136507302?s... #SuppOnc

Can the new cancer plan truly improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and put patients first? From early diagnosis to prevention and workforce support, The King's Fund CEO Sarah Woolnough outlines 10 tests for success. Read more: https://bit.ly/487hdke

Our online 'Chat Together' peer support group offers a safe space for people living with #PelvicRadiationDisease to connect💙 📆 3rd Tuesday each month at 12:30 For more information visit 👉prda.org.uk/chat-together/#PelvicRadiationDisease #RTLateEffects #CancerQualityOfLife #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer

Calling all Clinician and AHPs 👨‍⚕️ 👩‍⚕️ Apply for our free 18-month flagship Clinical Champions Programme. Become a leader in transforming care and support for men impacted by prostate cancer. Apply today 👉 bit.ly/46I5Fn9

Patients with newly diagnosed #multipleMyeloma experience a high symptom burden before and after chemotherapy. Precise management of symptoms at multiple stages of treatment are essential. https://bit.ly/4qFPyyc #myeloma

Physical activity, particularly at a consistent level in line with guideline recommendations, significantly reduces both risk of and mortality from digestive system #cancers. Published in @jamaoncology.com.#cancers https://bit.ly/3WDdULm #gicancer #gicsm

On the BBC News front page, you can find out how two prisoners were accidentally released last year, about a TV celebrity's cancer surgery, and about how to make veggie meatball soup But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit I am lost for words www.bbc.co.uk/news

This sounds hopeful from Jim Mackey in HSJ re shifting funding to community based services that prevent admissions. If achieved, this will help efforts to reduce the impact of cancer & its treatment, through preventative & proactive care that improves QoL & reduces crises & use of hospital beds

Coming up next week! MASCC Webinar: The Hidden Burden: Understanding and Treating Cancer Fatigue  Speakers: Prof. Florian Scotté Ms. @evaschumacherwulf.bsky.social Prof. @andreaschs.bsky.social Dr. Kim Wijlens Dr. Martina Pagliuca Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

See thread 👇 “The combination of comorbidities with the highest risk of hospital admission was cancer, CKD, CVD & T2DM. This group had an 11x higher risk of hospital admission than people with no long term conditions, after adjusting for age, sex, ethnic group, & index of multiple deprivation” 👀

“If these findings are confirmed by future, more definitive studies…” What would a more definitive study be? An RCT where you are randomised to being lonely?😭 I am joking of course, but it always seems that #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer research must pass some unattainable bar before being accepted

Key issue for people diagnosed with cancer, their partners, family and work colleagues

All patients having major cancer treatment should be offered group education where the elements of prehab are explained e.g. surgery school @macmillancancersupport #prehabilitationguidelines @junedavis.bsky.social #worldcongressofprehabilitation

It is with profound sadness we share that our beloved founder, Jo Taylor, has died. A fearless advocate and beacon of hope for those with Metastatic Breast Cancer - her legacy of courage, advocacy, and change will live on. 💗 #JoTaylor #METUPUK #LegacyOfChange #MBC

Incredibly powerful story - read this to understand the serious long term impact that cancer treatment can have on health and wellbeing. 🙏 thank you for sharing Ellie #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer

A question I ask in the context of chronic health conditions is: What do you need to be more at peace? Most responses fall into two themes: (1) is about access to medical care when needed; & (2) is about being heard & understood. Both of these seem do-able, but sadly in reality are often missing.

“Cancer pain is often undertreated, with patients frequently referred late to specialist services. This study aimed to develop expert-led recommendations to address unmet needs in the management of persistent severe cancer pain” #CancerQualityOfLife

It’s a good lesson for all of us to try to live with contradictions and uncertainties. 2/5

Around 300,000 people a year leave work and become economically inactive with a work-limiting health condition.   We are calling for government and employers to act early when health issues arise – not wait until people have already left work ⬇️ https://bit.ly/49eqR5V

Before we see out October, this month has also risen awareness about domestic abuse. The Macmillan Domestic Toolkit is an invaluable resource to help identify and support those with cancer experiencing domestic abuse. www.macmillan.org.uk/dfsmedia/1a6... #WithSurvivors @ukons.bsky.social

At CPOC we develop guidelines with multiprofessional input that include recommendations for each stage of the pathway. ➡️Anaemia ➡️Frailty ➡️OSA ➡️Diabetes Guidelines: shorturl.at/2jonl

Our online 'Chat Together' peer support group offers a safe space for people living with #PelvicRadiationDisease to connect💙 📆 1st Wednesday each month at 7pm For more information visit 👉prda.org.uk/chat-together/ #RTLateEffects #CancerQualityOfLife #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer

Five Key Supported Self Management Skills are: - Goal setting / action planning  - Pacing daily activities - Problem solving - Meaningful movement - Having a setback plan #InspireSelfMgt

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The post below says “a trend towards progression-free survival” but the article itself (once you get past the “shows potential” headline) ACTUALLY SAYS “did not lead to significantly improved progression-free survival” What are we meant to believe?

Could radiomic features guide adaptive radiotherapy to minimise rectal toxicity? A brilliant team led by Prof. Bill Nailon, Prof. Duncan McLaren and Dr Zhuolin Yang at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social share interesting new findings in phiRO. Grab a ☕ and read: doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...

Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service. The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS. Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇. Get in touch

Health inequalities among women from ethnic minority groups are shaped by intersecting socio-economic, cultural, and structural factors. Early prevention, personalised care, and systemic change are key to reducing disparities. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LijjEW

Pregnancy after BC is not only possible - it’s often safe. But young survivors need tailored, multidisciplinary support to navigate fertility, treatment, and long-term health. More research is needed on novel agents like CDK4/6 and PARP inhibitors. buff.ly/l10yF3b #OncoFertility #BreastCancer

I have a very bad feeling about this...

2026 BPOS Annual Conference & AGM Join us for the 2026 Annual British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) Conference at the Radisson Blue Hotel, Bristol, UK. March 18: Pre-conference workshops March 19-20: Main conference and AGM. For more information www.delegate-reg.co.uk/bpos2026

Agree - hope it is built into the cancer care elements of neighbourhood health from the start. Too much of Cancer Alliances’ development of psychosocial support has had to be short-term funded 😕 without knowing if it can be sustained. However, work is starting re Level 2 training stds for CNSs 👍

We have undertaken a series of studies to explore the prevalence of FCR, the influence of metacognition and intolerance of uncertainty on FCR, and the effectiveness of metacognitive-based interventions in managing FCR. Looking forward to sharing our insights on FCR.