Nick Symons

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer MDT Lead, Oxford University Hospitals

[@ACPGBI @ACPGBI]

The legendary @ACPGBI Advanced Coloproctology Course is back (virtually!) 🌐#ACC2026
25 – 26 Mar 2026
✔️ Mock FRCS vivas with live feedback
✔️ 30+ years of excellence
✔️ Open to consultants, trainees, SAS doctors & AHPs – UK & beyond!
👉 https://t.co/RfJxYwjt52

[Simon Buczacki @SiBucz]

New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer.
https://t.co/5ThQLxeHAl

[Nikhil Lal @DrNikhilLal]

📢 ACPGBI Oxford Chapter Meeting 2025

🗓 14th November 2025

📍 KARL STORZ Training & Technology Centre, Slough

👉 Register here: https://t.co/KU9vcpFWFz

@ACPGBI @ACPGBI_EduTrain @Dukes_Club @NickSymons

[Alastair Lamb @LambAlastair]

Cool to visit new @IntuitiveSurg UKHQ at #WinnershTriangle, Reading with @DrKatOxford and others from @NuffieldHealth

Exciting re possibility of placing #daVinci5 system at #TheManorHospital, Oxford

Great for Oxford patients & surgeons & families
#PCa #RCC #CRC #Endometriosis

[Nikhil Lal @DrNikhilLal]

ACPGBI Oxford Chapter Meeting, 11th October 2024 at @KARLSTORZUK. Featuring talks from leading experts @MarkCheetham @SiBucz @NickSymons @EMBurns2017 @chrisc_oxford @profsandyjack

Register using the link below:
https://t.co/IVQFyohKBo

@ACPGBI @Dukes_Club @ACPGBI_EduTrain

[Sandeep Singh @Sandeep_SinghMD]

Team Oxford #ACPGBI2024 ⁦@OxfordColonSurg⁩ ⁦@ACPGBI⁩ ⁦@DrKatOxford⁩ ⁦@NickSymons⁩ ⁦@KimJGorissen⁩ ⁦@chrisc_oxford⁩

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

Thousands of cancer patients to trial personalised vaccines https://t.co/6Rg0SmlGsr

[Occtopus charity @Occtopuscharity]

As Bowel Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close, we wanted to share patient Felicity's story. Felicity was the fittest she had been in her life, training to row the Atlantic with her sister and friends until things changed. You can read her story here:

https://t.co/Z8WZU26nI0

[PelvexLondon2024 @PelvexLondon24]

@PelvExGroup is coming to London in June! A fantastic line of world leading experts in pelvic exenteration surgery @MrJTJenkins @Dukes_Club @des_winter @Jordanfletch6 @DeenaHarji @EMBurns2017 @QDenost @bengriffiths73 @ACPGBI @escp_tweets

Register 👇🏻
➡️https://t.co/ZJJMW6mhia

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

Discharged 5 years & 4 months after diagnosis of stage 3 bowel cancer - it was in my lymph nodes plus the highly undesirable B-RAF mutation. Get tested if you have something weird happening in your bowels, or even if you haven’t. I had none of the usual symptoms

[Nikhil Lal @DrNikhilLal]

A great day at @IntuitiveSurg organising and attending the @Dukes_Club Basic Robotic Surgical Skills Course for Thames Valley trainees. Grateful to the faculty for their support and tips! @aagoede @NickSymons @tombarnes52

[@ACPGBI @ACPGBI]

Don't miss @ACPGBI Oxford chapter meeting!
Bringing together consultants, trainees, & advanced care practitioners to share the latest colorectal surgery practices, evidence and challenges
Learn & share your experience - 13 October
🔗https://t.co/Mk2HFXePos
#SharingBestPractices

[Pelican Cancer Foundation @Pelican_Cancer]

#BowelCancer is the 4th most common cancer in the UK and every year nearly 43,000 people are diagnosed. However, it can be treatable and curable if diagnosed early. Surgery often remains the most effective treatment for bowel cancer.

https://t.co/1SeeC4zftF

#LiveWellForLonger

[Adam Alderson @AdamAlderson3]

Today marks 8 years from the day I had my multi visceral organ #transplant that saved my life! Eternally grateful to @Brendan92855812 @TomCecilMD @BasingstokePmi for giving me this opportunity to live my life. @NHSOrganDonor @Gem_Robbins @FaheezM #pseudomyxoma #cancer

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

@bowelsurgeon

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

#ColorectalEd
In the low rectum, end-to-end and J-pouch anastomoses have equivalent long term LARS scores. Less mobilisation and early morbidity for end-to end. Pick your favourite but probably do the same thing every time.

https://t.co/2cypfPt6F1

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

#ColorectalEd
Apixaban is absorbed in the TI/R colon. If you do a R hemi with significant SB resection on an anti-coagulated patient, consider doing DOAC levels post-op or swapping to rivaroxiban (Stomach/Duodenum absorption).

https://t.co/6aFSRYIxdH

[The Royal College of Surgeons of England @RCSnews]

Warmest congratulations to Professor Dame Averil Mansfield who has received a damehood in the King's Birthday Honours. Our @womeninsurgery chair @nizbuzz reflects on Dame Averil's recognition here: https://t.co/gpX4jdsNGN

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

#ColorectalEd
Near-complete clinical responders to LCCRT, who go on to get a complete response have similar outcomes to those who have CR at first assessment.
Enhanced surveillance is an option for near-CRs who want to avoid surgery.
https://t.co/iC19pQwhxk

[Nick Symons @NickSymons]

#ColorectalEd
Lynch Syndrome: The risk of metachronous CRC is reduced (perhaps by 31%) for every 10cm extra colon removed at resection. Seems to be particularly important for MLH1 and MSH2 variants. Consider extended resection especially in young people
https://t.co/HETy09E12A