At our #BTOG26 Annual Conference last week, we presented our inaugural BTOG Awards for persons who have made a real difference to the care, treatment, or research for patients with thoracic malignancies. Nominated by you and selected by our Steering Committee, we had 3 categories:
BTOG 2026 Nurse of the Year Award: Sandra Wakelin
BTOG 2026 Doctor of the Year Award: Kanwal Tariq
BTOG 2026 Young Researcher of the Year Award: Patrick Goodley
Congratulations to our winners!
1. What would it take to convince healthcare leaders & policy makers that smoking cessation should be funded and delivered within lung cancer screening programmes?
https://t.co/KYLr4ho1b5
🗞️Big results from Manchester #lungcancer#screening
🫁 It's difficult to measure how much real impact a programme has on the whole population, but we had the opportunity to study this in a region where screening has been offered since 2019
@JTOonline
https://t.co/GjHmNUhpok
1. Prehabilitation for patients with #lungcabcer
Everyday we the beneficial impact prehabilitation has for patients with lung cancer preparing for treatment, delivered by the brilliant prehab4cancer team in Greater Manchester led by Jack Murphy
#WCLC25 recap: @patrick_goodley presented new data on a survival benefit in screening older, surgically fit adults up to age 80. Read more: https://t.co/RL990ew6as
#lungcancer#screening
Brilliant to see this published 😊 Many years of work from so many people to deliver this regional One- stop lung cancer clinic for treatment decisions & optimisation delivering faster pathways & better outcomes. 👏 to all involved
@GM_Cancer@MFTnhs@WythenshaweHosp
Glad to share our article about the One-Stop Lung Cancer Clinic based at Manchester for resectable, early-stage lung cancer patients who face delayed, complex pathways to make a treatment decision resulting in negative outcomes.
https://t.co/FNVaurDcCj
🆕📜Editorial containing some thoughts on the increasingly complex proliferation of #lungcancer#screening#riskprediction models @ThoraxBMJ
🔓https://t.co/PalZl8Gvbu
Based on impressive Zhang review of existing validation studies 🧮⚖️
https://t.co/J5aGU6N6Ut
#LCSM
Robotic technology at Wythenshawe hospital leading way in lung cancer detection and saving lives | ITV News Granada
#RAB#RoboticBronchoscopy @IntuitiveSurg https://t.co/l8V3q8nSqR
(1/4) 👉 #Tobacco kills ~8 million people every year.
👉 🚬 causes at least 20 #cancer types, and 80% of #LungCancer deaths are due to tobacco use.
👉 #QuittingSmoking saves lives!
Even after a cancer diagnosis, smoking cessation improves #survival & treatment success. #wclc2025
Thanks #WCLC2025 for letting me share findings from large collaboration between Manchester @LungCheck and Leeds @LungHealthCheck about upper age limit for #lungcancer#screening.
Particularly interesting that ≥75s who get to surgery do as well as 55-74yr olds. Age is a number!
Of course need to consider the evolving balance of risks/benefits of screening with age, but biological age varies widely. Hopefully we'll be able to develop new tools to identify & target more people who are likely to benefit.