Recently, following course feedback and some piloting work, the Advanced Communication Skills Courses were relaunched in a 2-day format. Dr Pauline Leonard who leads the initiative, reports the background here:

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2011 Highlights – Day 3

ACP webcasts from day 3 of SABCS are now available for viewing!

Click here to view the latest SABCS data highlights presented by Dr Andreas Makris, Dr Daniel Rae, Dr David Miles and Professor Peter Barrett-Lee.

We hope you have embraced the educational advantage this SABCS webcast program has offered and are now able to put your learnings from these data highlights into practice within the UK!

Roche Pharmaceuticals has provided sponsorship for these webcasts, however will have no influence over content.

One of the initiatives under development by the ACP is National Oncology-Treatment Consent Forms. The sort of thing under consideration has already been implemented in the South East London Cancer Network. Take a look here in the Chemotherapy section.

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2011 Highlights - Day 2

Day 2 webcasts are now live!

Click here to view the latest SABCS data highlights from day 2 presented by Dr. Julie Doughty, Dr. Fiona MacNeill, Prof. Alastair Thompson, Prof. David Dodwell and Prof. Peter Barrett-Lee.

More updates from San Antonio will be available tomorrow!

Roche Pharmaceuticals has provided sponsorship for these webcasts, however will have no influence over content.

Some of you probably wonder what the ACP does. To keep you updated I will summarise the agenda discussed at the last committee meeting:

1. ACP website - as you will note we are now working with WG Consulting and Roche to enhance the website and provide features such as conference highlights
2. Acute and urgent problems in cancer patients: quick, effective responses in all settings - this report produced by a joint RCP/RCR Working Party will shortly be published
3. National Consent Forms - some work is ongoing to develop templates for chemotherapy consent forms
4. National Clinical Excellence Awards - we await to find out what will happen with CEA this year
5. McElwain and other Prizes - prizes for trainees reporting their research
6. ACP Nominations for RCP Lectureships
7. Regional Speciality Advisors
8. RCP Medical Careers Day - we will provide support to encourage students to consider medical oncology as a career
9. National Chemotherapy Implementation Group and Acute Oncology
10. Education, Training, and Workforce
11. Cancer Physicians in Training
12. Revalidation
13. Clinical Leads Forum
14. Treasury
15. New Consultants Group

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2011 Highlights - Day 1

With day 1 of SABCS now complete, we are pleased to share with you the ACP' first SABCS webcast!

Prof. Rob Coleman,  Prof. Brian Leyland-Jones and Prof. Christopher Poole present to you their expert opinion on the key data presented during day 1 at SABCS. Click here to view their insightful discussions on the key highlights from day 1 and how this new data may impact current clinical oncology practice.

Keep logging on over the next few days to view more updates from San Antonio!

Roche Pharmaceuticals has provided sponsorship for these webcasts, however will have no influence over content.