The Association of Cancer Physicians

NHS England has now taken on responsibility for the Cancer Drug Fund and the new list of the drugs and associated indications which will be funded have been released. http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/cdf/

You can now follow us on twitter for :

• ACP publicity for example regarding prizes, surveys and conferences
• Oncology updates from conferences 
• Oncology updates of new important papers
• Links to any new additions on the ACP website
• Advertising of upcoming conferences/events relevant to medical oncology

Dr Richard Osborne, Lead Clinician on the NICE Guidelines for CUP,  is looking to compile a list of Acute Oncology practitioners (Consultants and nurses with an AO responsibility) in the UK with a view to organising an online forum.

Acute Oncologists and specialist nurses responsible for AO services are invited to send their details to this NHS account - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  He will compile a database of names and email addresses, and will respond to individuals with a brief email proposing the development of the online forum.

In the words of the author:

Emergency admissions for patients with cancer remain problematic despite the development of acute oncology.  There is more that could be done to improve their care and subsequent experiences and outcomes.

A joint RCP/RCR working party was established in 2010 to review the experiences of patients with cancer who become acutely unwell and need urgent help and advice; to identify the obstacles to good care across all care settings, and to consider how both patient experience and the outcome of care might be improved where indicated.

This new report Cancer patients in crisis: responding to urgent needs provides decision making tools for health professionals and proposes standards of good practice in different care settings which should reduce risk and improve outcomes.

The full report is supplemented by a Patient Emergency Planning Wallet, a Decision Aid for Hospital Teams, and a Decision Aid for Community Teams.

Medical oncology was well represented on the Working Party by Dr Janine Mansi, and she now asks that the documents are disseminated widely to your colleagues.

Please click the links below to access the highlights from our SABCS team.

  Day 1

- Endocrine Treatment: Long Term Updates - The Past

- Endocrine Treatment: New Therapies - The Future

- Neoadjuvant Treatment: More Surgical Controversies

  Day 2

- Adjuvant Chemotherapy

- Radiotherapy

- New Tricks For Old Dogs

  Day 3

- Adjuvant Therapy In HER2 Positive BC

- Chemotherapy In mBC

- Cognitive Function

- Bone Metastases

Roche Pharmaceuticals has provided an unrestricted educational grant for these webcasts, however has no influence over content.