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The ACP, together with the RCR, UKONS and BOPA, are co-signatories on a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The letter highlights the increasing challenge of a critical lack of capacity in UK oncology depts, which is impacting on SACT delivery.
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It is a great honour to be appointed the Chair of the Association of Cancer Physicians.
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It has been a great privilege and pleasure to be the ACP Chair over the past five years. During this time advances in cancer medicine have continued at great pace with personalised medicine immunotherapy therapy extending the roles into virtually every type of cancer where these treatments have proved transformative resulting in longer periods of disease control and containment and eradication of cancer in many patients.
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The Executive Committee and membership would like to thank David Cunningham for his stunning efforts for us over the last 5 years during which he has been chair of the Executive Committee of the ACP.
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The 2023 National Clinical Impact Awards (formerly Clinical Excellence Awards) round is now open. In previous years the ACP has been able to support applications as a National Nominating Organisation. The process has changed in 2023; although the ACP no longer has a formal role, we would stongly encourage members to consider applying. You are advised to refer ...
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The ACP was sad to hear of the recent death of Ken Bagshawe. A founding member of the ACP and a pioneer in the development of medical oncology in the UK, he was a consultant medical oncologist at Charing Cross and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College. An obituary for Ken can be found here.Posted on
National regimen-specific consent forms continue to be regularly reviewed and updated, in addition to new forms being released. New forms have recently been added for LUNG CANCER. All available forms are available on the CRUK website here. The UK Chemotherapy Board has also recently issued new guidance on: Hepatitis B testing - New position statement and gu...
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Awarded first prize in the BMA 2022 Medical Book Awards - Oncology category. Congratulations to Lena Karapanagiotou, Janine Mansi and co-editors. Further details of this title, and others in the ACP/EBN Problem Solving series of books, here. Discounts for ACP members.Posted on
Red blood cell stocks are currently low. The RCR and ACP have published recommendations for oncology teams for red blood cell transfusion in adults when red blood cell stocks are low. The recommendations are available herePosted on
The 37th Annual General Meeting of the ACP was held on Monday 3rd October 2022. The slide presentation is available to download.