1/2 With #WorldCancerResearchDay shining a light on cancer care, we update on the HQIP-commissioned National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre, which hosts all ten #NHS national cancer audits that are part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. @natcan-news.bsky.social

Our new website is live! 🎉 All 10 national cancer audits are now in one place: bowel, OG, NHL, lung, ovarian, kidney, prostate, pancreatic, primary breast & metastatic breast. Plus refreshed QI & new sections have been added, check it out here 👉 natcan.org.uk

ICYMI and want to know more about how tumor transcription-wide expression classifiers predict treatment sensitivity in advanced prostate cancers > look no further: www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00...

Could transcriptome signatures identify men with advanced #ProstateCancer most likely to benefit from chemotherapy? A brilliant team led by Prof Gerhardt Attard @ucl.ac.uk share exciting new findings in @cp-cell.bsky.social. Grab a ☕ and read: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

A new test can identify which prostate cancer patients are more likely to benefit from chemotherapy and live longer, sparing patients less likely to benefit from unpleasant side effects, shows a new study led by Prof Gert Attard & Dr Emily Grist @uclmedsci.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

REALLY thrilled to share findings from my postdoc work in the Attard lab, which form part of this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Thanks to Emily and Gert for seeing it over the line, all the funders, the Veracyte, MRC CTU & STAMPEDE teams, and patients who contributed samples. Pls share!

📢 Start your week with the latest National Prostate Cancer Audit study. We found that the annual rate of metastatic prostate cancer at diagnosis was more than 60% higher in some regions than in others in England. Paper link here 👉 bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

NEW - Wellcome and UK Government partnering on a new health data research service, contributing up £600m together. This will simplify secure access to health data and speed up research to better understand ill health. wellcome.org/news/nationa...

Excellent video about CAcTUS trial combining many aspects of #CancerResearch in #Manchester - including #immunotherapy, #melanoma research & #LiquidBiopsies - #ctDNA Great to hear @beckilee.bsky.social - formerly of this parish - speak about her work, plus a moving account from patient Kathy Heaton

What are the unique features, outputs and the future of NATCAN (National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre, @natcan-news.bsky.social), where I manage the prostate @npca-natcan.bsky.social and kidney cancer audits @nkca-natcan.bsky.social? The answers are here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

⚠️Do you or someone you know want to come and work with me and the fantastic @npca-natcan.bsky.social @natcan-news.bsky.social teams based @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social? Our oncological clinical lead is the super @alison-tree.bsky.social 😁. Interested? Apply here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB374/c...

If you work in a hospital or a cancer alliance take some time to look at the data from the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) Pancreatic Cancer Audit www.natcan.org.uk/reports/npac... It will help you to find the areas that you can identify for improvement #sethslegacy

Latest from Jo, Clinical Fellow in the NPCA. Are mHSPC patients in England receiving treatment intensification? And are all sMDTs treating patients similarly?

We are finalists!! 🙌 Our #data team has been shortlisted for the #ACDM25 awards for designing an open-source database to integrate clinical and translational data in #ClinicalTrials. Read the paper here - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @cancerresearchuk.org @unisouthampton.bsky.social

🚀 Our paper introducing ImmuneLENS, a new tool that measures T and B cell fractions from WGS data. This builds on our previous method, T cell ExTRECT, that used a signal from V(D)J recombination to measure T cells. Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02086-5 🧵👇

For the last 5 months, I’ve spoken to Rosy as she’s fought for care. MND means she needs a ventilator and feeding tube and yet she has been denied 24/7 carers. Rosy is now losing her voice but wants to speak out. We should all listen. In today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very proud to share the results of the NPCA team's hard work over the last few months. It's a data rich report: increase in diagnoses and numbers of treatment, differences in diagnoses and treatments by age, ethnicity and deprivation. Please share!

Throughout 2024, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man. Here are the 80 women whose deaths have led to a man being charged. Let us say their names. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Even in the face of tragedy parents Merope and Paul fought to change the system and save other families from the same fate.

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

Some lovely work from my fellow ex-UCL Cancer Institute Postdoc Association committee member. Explanatory thread, animation and all!

Massive away win for the little fella.

Many excellent suggestions in Kay's post: "Talk about the importance of career planning...Talk about our own career choices, moments of indecision...Discuss opportunities...Look for ways to deputise...be prepared to let talented people go" There's more so read the whole thing!

🎉Octopus.ac has integrated with the UK government's Areas of Research Interest (ARI) database, enhancing collaboration between researchers and policymakers. Find out more about the new feature ji.sc/octopus-ari-... #OpenResearch @ukri.org @jisc.bsky.social

there is no columnist I've admired more than Melanie Reid, because she took a world whose horizons had necessarily shrunk (at times to the dimensions of a hospital bed) & found something new & interesting in it to say every week. An incredible feat of writing www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

As someone who has left the lab bench/desk behind, I strongly echo the 1st contributor's advice "reflecting on your skills, working style and values". What are you good at? What do you enjoy doing? Getting 360 degree feedback is also useful, as suggested here. Valuable to regularly consider these

A stimulating workshop on the subject of Waddington Landscapes in Lyon last week, prompted me to compose some thoughts on dynamical landscapes, gene regulatory networks, and single cell transcriptomics briscoelab.org/morphogenalia/

If you are looking for prostate cancer and/or clinical audit content, look no further than the National Prostate Cancer Audit's 4th quarterly report available NOW! www.npca.org.uk/reports/npca... Includes data completeness for several key data items & 1 performance indicator from English NHS Trusts.

My app for finding 🦋 accounts you may want to follow has had a make-over: it now displays names and bios, and allows adding an "app password" for direct follow buttons in the listing bsky-follow-finder.theo.io