We’re excited to launch CLARITY, an educational cluster-RCT for acute appendicitis, with @STARSurgUK! 🚀
📍 We’ve launched at 1️⃣0️⃣ pilot sites in the UK, with the main phase beginning this Autumn!
🔗 https://t.co/cXn85UUK5s
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The treatment of patients with suspected appendicitis in the UK is too variable, and this impacts on patient outcomes.
Check out this new RCT that hopes to address this, improve care for patients and ultimately improve outcomes.
Read about the CLARITY trial here:
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I'm delighted to announce that I won Miltenyi's Travel Grant Contest @miltenyibiotec to attend the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) 2024 Congress in Rotterdam #EACR2024. This will connect me with fantastic cancer researchers in Europe!
Now Online First:
Changes in hospital mortality in patients with #cancer during the #COVID19 pandemic in the #UK (ISARIC-CCP-UK): a prospective, multicentre cohort study https://t.co/fSUgsq1QzG
We’re pleased to share our latest analysis of the ISARIC4C CCP-UK dataset of patients hospitalised with COVID in the UK, looking at patients having treatment for cancer over the first two years of the pandemic.
https://t.co/h1IzLH1BPu
We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our fabulous new group at @EdinUni_IGC studying liver plasticity and cancer. Come join our team!
https://t.co/kE45vOeZX2
Delighted to have been awarded the @UofGCancerSci post-graduate prize for my time as a PhD student at @CRUK_SI 🎉
Thanks to the panel for selecting me!
Thanks to everyone at ‘The Beatson’, especially @immuno_ed and all of the @Robertslab1 for supporting me through the PhD! 💖
If you’re interested in liver cancer, cancer prevention, BH3-mimetics or are just keen to join this fantastic team👇🏻; check out our @CR_UK funded postdoc position at the @CRUK_SI. Deadline 31/01/24.
🔥6 modern lessons in appendicitis every uptodate surgeon should know 👉
Appendicitis is common, it’s hard to diagnose, and every surgeon has an opinion.
I’ve been reading, publishing, and reviewing on it since 2011, since one of the first collaborative research projects ever: https://t.co/uVykZq2AOA
So here are 6 modern, evidence-based lessons every surgeon around the world should know🧵: