IMPACT for Scotland – 2nd May

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Pelican Cancer Foundation invites MDT members to join us at our IMPACT workshop on 2nd May. To be held at the Royal College of Surgeons, King Khalid Building, Edinburgh. We offer 7 free places per MDT, any additional places will be charged at £95 per person. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept individual registrations.

To book your place, please return your IMPACT Booking Form to courses@pelicancancer.org 

Alternatively – you can post it to us at:

Pelican Cancer Foundation

The Ark, Dinwoodie Drive

Basingstoke

RG24 9NN

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

IMPACT for Yorkshire – 21st March

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Pelican Cancer Foundation invites MDT members to join us at our IMPACT workshop on 21st March. To be held at the University of York, Spring Lane Building.

We offer 7 free places per MDT, any additional places will be charged at £95 per person. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept individual registrations.

To book your place, please return your IMPACT Booking Form to courses@pelicancancer.org 

Alternatively – you can post it to us at:

Pelican Cancer Foundation

The Ark, Dinwoodie Drive

Basingstoke

RG24 9NN

We look forward to seeing you there!

FRCS – 16th March

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5th Annual FRCS (General Surgery) Revision Day: Surgical Specialities for the Non-Specialist

Pelican Cancer Foundation
Friday, March 16, 2018 from 8:45 AM to 5:30 PM (GMT)
Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Ticket Information:

Course fee: £75.00

RSM or ASiT Members: £40.00

 

 

Event Details
A one day workshop designed to prepare candidates for their exit exam in the generality of surgery and critical care. It gives an update from each of the major sub-specialities, which will enable the candidates to confidently manage questions from outside of their own speciality area, along with a comprehensive update on critical care.

This course is run in conjunction with The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Section of Surgery and The Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT). Ideal for higher surgical trainees and core trainees.

IMPACT for Basingstoke – 26th January

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Pelican Cancer Foundation invites MDT members to join us at our IMPACT workshop on 26th January. We offer 7 free places per MDT, any additional places will be charged at £95 per person. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept individual registrations.

To book your place, please return your IMPACT Booking Form to courses@pelicancancer.org 

Alternatively – you can post it to us at:

Pelican Cancer Foundation

The Ark, Dinwoodie Drive

Basingstoke

RG24 9NN

We look forward to seeing you there!

SPECC for Ireland – 13th December 2017

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SPECC | Significant Polyp and Early Colorectal Cancer
This is a national programme with workshops hosted in Wales and Scotland and around England in 2015-2017. Six core members (including surgeon, gastroenterologist, CNS, radiologist and pathologist) of all 164 colorectal MDTs in England and Wales will be invited to attend a one day workshop on this complex topic.

Course Convenors: Mr Brendan Moran
Location: Dublin

This course is provided free by Pelican Cancer Foundation. If you would like to book this course please download our booking form and return it completed to admin@pelicancancer.org.

SPECC for South West Coast – 8th December 2017

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SPECC | Significant Polyp and Early Colorectal Cancer
This is a national programme with workshops hosted in Wales and Scotland and around England in 2015-2017. Six core members (including surgeon, gastroenterologist, CNS, radiologist and pathologist) of all 164 colorectal MDTs in England and Wales will be invited to attend a one day workshop on this complex topic.

Course Convenors: Mr Brendan Moran

Location: Engineers’ House Conference Venue Bristol

This course is provided free by Pelican Cancer Foundation. If you would like to book this course please download our booking form and return it completed to admin@pelicancancer.org.

Anthony – Pelican Festive Fun Run 2017

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Tony was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July 2016 which had spread to his liver. Now recuperating from three major operations this year and now tumour/cancer free, Tony (Team Dude) decided to take part in our Festive Fun Run in order to raise funds for Pelican. Through friends and family, he raised a spectacular £2,515 including gift aid. Tony set up a page on the Virgin Money Giving website in order to collect sponsorship.

Thank you so much Tony for all your efforts in raising this incredible amount for us! We are incredibly grateful.

Linda & Lea – Rock the Night Away with Scott Elvis

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This year’s Scott Elvis event, the fifth organised by Linda, was again held at the Great Danes Hotel in Kent, raising funds for Pelican Cancer Foundation and Breast Cancer Care.

Linda’s world turned upside down when she was told that she had Pseudomyxoma Peritonei. She learnt that she would need to be treated in Basingstoke, one of the two centres of excellence in the UK. In 2011, Linda successfully underwent cytoreduction surgery with HIPEC carried out by Mr Brendan Moran and his team. The surgery is incredibly complex and she learnt that Pelican Cancer Foundation’s work towards making precision surgery for this sort of cancer is the best it can be. Pelican is continually researching and analysing best practice and training surgical teams across the country with a view to making sure that patients like Linda receive the best care possible and don’t just survive cancer, but have a life after it as well.

At this year’s event, Scott Elvis gave a great night’s entertainment to 140 guests and the dance floor was full all evening!

Through everyone’s generosity, Linda and family were delighted to have raised £2,341 for Pelican Cancer Foundation, bringing the total raised through this event and other fundraisers to over £14,000.

Next year’s event is already planned – so please mark it in your diary for the 12th October 2018!

 

Pelican Festive Fun Run – 10th December 2017

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If you’re looking for a festive challenge and really want to earn those mince pies this Christmas why not take part in Pelican Cancer Foundation’s first ever Festive Fun Run!

All the family are welcome to sign up and join us on Sunday 10thDecember 2017 in the War Memorial Park with choices of either a 5km or 2.5km course.

We’re asking all participants to pledge to raise £50 to go toward the work of Pelican Cancer Foundation.

Santa suits are included in the registration fees and everyone who takes part receives a medal!

How to register

Registration is now closed but you can register on the day!

 

SPECC for Wales – 29th November 2017

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SPECC | Significant Polyp and Early Colorectal Cancer
This is a national programme with workshops hosted in Wales and Scotland and around England in 2015-2017. Six core members (including surgeon, gastroenterologist, CNS, radiologist and pathologist) of all 164 colorectal MDTs in England and Wales will be invited to attend a one day workshop on this complex topic.

Course Convenors: Mr Brendan Moran

Location: Cardiff

This course is provided free by Pelican Cancer Foundation. If you would like to book this course please download our booking form and return it completed to admin@pelicancancer.org.

Third International Workshop on Managing Bowel Function after Cancer Treatment – 1st November 2017

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This meeting is suitable for consultant surgeons, oncologists and gastroenterologists involved in the treatment and support of patients who have undergone therapy for pelvic malignancies.

We will cover gastrointestinal, urinary and sexual side-effects, review the latest concepts of best practice and discuss developing future pathways to improve patient experience.

Course Cost: £95.00

 

 

Course Convenors: 
Dr Jervoise Andreyev, Brendan Moran and Francesco Di Fabio

Reduced course fees are available for individual roles.

Draft Programme

Convenors: Mr Francesco di Fabio and Mrs Kerry Feltwell

08.30    Registration
08.45    Welcome & introduction – Mr Jervoise Andreyev
08.50    The patient’s perspective – Mr David Jillings

Chair: Brendan Moran The scale and range of acute and chronic GI toxicity.

09.20    An overview of bowel toxicity issues and treatment – Dr Jervoise Andreyev
09.45    The oncologists view on the size and nature of the problem – Prof David Sebag Montefiore
10.10    Panel Discussion – Panel: as above + SL

10.30    Coffee

Chair: David Sebag-Montefiore Recognising the issues

11.15    From “one size fits all” to personalized treatment planning – Mr Francesco Di Fabio
11.30   Multi-disciplinary collaboration on bladder and sexual dysfunction after surgery – Mr Christian Philips
11.50   Anterior resection syndrome – Prof Soren Lauberg

Chair: Soren Laurber

12.10   Discussion
12.20  The psychological and psychiatric morbidity of cancer treatment and effective management – Dr. Andrew Hodgkiss
12.40  The economics of GI toxicity – Dr. Mirella Longo

13.00  Lunch

13.45  Case study – Panel: JV, F Di F, SL, CV, PK, TD, AH
14.15   Managing incontinence and diarrhea – Dr. Mirella Longo
14.35   The role of sacral nerve stimulation in managing ARS – Mr Tom Dudding
14.55   Discussion

15.00   Tea

Chair: Jervoise Andreyev Measuring Low Anterior Resection Syndrome

15.50   Outcomes – Prof Soren Laurberg
16.15   Questions and discussion
16.30   Summary and close

Bowel Cancer Research

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Bowel cancer research

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Pelican supports research that informs and improves bowel cancer treatment today. The charity’s research studies to date have underlined that a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment is vital to achieving the best possible outcome for bowel cancer patients.

The Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) precise surgical technique that was pioneered by Professor Bill Heald, founder of the Pelican Cancer Foundation. TME saves more lives than any other treatment for bowel cancer. It halves the chance of the cancer returning and reduces negative side effects such as damage to urinary and sexual function. TME has already made a life-saving, life-enhancing difference to thousands of patients all over the world.

Following this direction Pelican has continued to aid ground-breaking research into bowel cancer. Their first major research programme, MERCURYinvestigated the role of MRI in detecting and clearly staging disease, and in planning precision surgery. The study found that MRI could identify the features of a lower bowel (rectal) tumour pre-operatively, allowing for individualised optimal treatment, to be planned by the multi-disciplinary team, including pre-operative therapies, such as radio- or chemotherapy which can shrink the tumours.

MRI allows early tumours to be identified, for which surgery alone is best and pre-operative therapy is not necessary. By informing clinical decision-making, MRI is now providing an opportunity to downstage even poor prognosis rectal tumours and improve patient outcomes.

Building on the wealth of data from the MERCURY project, one of Pelican’s principle research projects at the moment, MERCURY II (Low Rectal Cancer Study), is investigating the ability of MRI-planned surgery and selective pre-operative therapy to reduce the rates of local tumour recurrence and improve overall survival for patients. This is the work of Nick Battersby, based at the Pelican Centre under the project leadership of Mr Brendan Moran and Professor Gina Brown.

Another significant area of research that Pelican is involved in is the Deferral of Surgery Study at the Royal Marsden Hospital. This research looks at the tumour response in low rectal cancers to pre-operative chemoradiation and whether, if it is good, surgery can be safely delayed or avoided to improve patient quality of life. It aims to establish the time needed for maximum down-staging of the tumour and therefore the optimum timing for surgery. In a small number of cases surgery can be avoided altogether but the challenge is discovering which tumours are most likely to respond.

SPECC Workshops

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Every Colorectal Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team in England and Wales will receive an invitation to join a free one-day workshop on SPECC. Teams will be invited to join other hospitals from the same Strategic Clinical Network.

The programme for the workshop has been devised by an expert steering group and a general overview of the programme’s workshop content can be seen below. The speakers at every workshop will be a mix of national and local experts, with local clinicians joining the faculty within each network.

Forthcoming SPECC Workshops

So far there have been 9 workshops attended by 660 clinicians from 94 NHS trusts. We are running the following workshops:

Cardiff, Wales – 29th November 2017

Bristol, South West of England – 8th December 2017

If you would like to book onto any of these courses please download our booking form and return it completed to admin@pelicancancer.org.

Sample Workshop Content Overview

Workshop Aims: To advance local and regional practice in the definition, recognition, documentation, treatment and strategic planning for significant polyps and early colorectal cancer.

Background
• Strengths and local interest; who does what within the region

Case Study
• Stimulating discussion & debate on the diagnosis and management of a SPECC lesion

Definition and Anatomy | Surgeon
• A significant polyp is a large (20mm) sessile or flat colorectal lesion
• Early colorectal cancer is generally a small (3cm) malignant colorectal lesion with a low risk of nodal involvement.

Screening | Epidemiologist
• Changing incidence of SPECC with screening era

The overall pathway for SPECC patients | Gastroenterologist
• Endoscopy tips, tricks, tools, and troubleshooting

Recognition and assessment | Gastroenterologist
• Endoscopic assessment, characterization, documentation
• Strategic planning – today or another day / another place / another person?
• Endoscopic adjuncts, chromo-endoscopy, narrow band imaging

Triple assessment for rectal lesions | Surgeon
• Planning optimal management, more than staging accuracy
• Different endorectal ultrasound platforms and their use by the surgeon – when and how to use ultrasound

Significant lesions on MRI Rectum | Radiologist
• Staging with MRI for rectal SPECC to assess depth of invasion and lymph node involvement

CT colonoscopy: in detecting polyps and early cancer | Radiologist
• Outline principles of CTC – bowel preparation – full mechanical versus tagged faeces
• Methods, tips, tricks and tools

Case study for SPECC managed by endoscopic treatment | Gastroenterologist
• A case that might be commonly found but universally challenging and controversial

The pathologists view? | Pathologist
• Technical difficulties in categorizing benign or malignant polyps

The patient perspective | Colorectal Nurse Specialist
• Balancing risk and individual choice – cases to demonstrate different individual choices?

Endoscopic excision techniques – EMR/ESD | Gastroenterologist
• Advantages and challenges of EMR and ESD, tips, tricks

Transanal excision for rectal lesions | Surgeon
• Suspected early rectal cancer management – indications, evidence, technique and follow-up

Contact X-ray Brachytherapy (Papillon) | Oncologist
• What is brachytherapy, who is it suitable for and how does it work

Pelican 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner – 19th January 2018

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All the seats for our 25th anniversary dinner are now sold out. Tickets to the drinks reception, plus talks with William Boyd and Professor Heald are still available.

Dress code will be smart with a touch of silver.

Itinerary:

18.30 Drinks reception

19.15 Talk by Professor Heald

19.45 Hannah MacInnes in conversation with William Boyd

20.30 Dinner

22.30 Carriages

We are holding this event at The Pavillion, The Ark, Basingstoke, RG24 9NN.

Tickets for the drinks reception and talks are £50. Please note that these do not include the dinner.

Book your place

Booking form

If you wish to be added to the waiting list for the dinner then please contact events@pelicancancer.org or call 01256 314746

Join us on what promises to be a fabulous night in aid of Pelican Cancer Foundation. We look forward to seeing you there!

 

 

Pelican Cancer Foundation Golf Day – 16th May 2018

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Join us for a morning of golf at the wonderful Donnington Valley Golf Club and help the Pelican Cancer Foundation fight below-the-belt-cancers.

Teams of four are invited to take part in this 18 hole Stableford competition on a stunning parkland course set in beautiful rolling countryside. Players will be greeted at 8am with bacon rolls and morning refreshments preparing them for a shotgun start at 9am.

After the competition, a three course lunch will be served in the Wine Press Restaurant at the Donnington Valley Hotel followed by a prize giving ceremony and raffle.

Handicap limits of 28 for men and 36 for women.
Non-playing guests are welcome to join us for lunch at £35.00 per head.

To enter we ask for a registration fee of £400 per team of four plus a bottle of wine from each team member for our wheel barrow of wine raffle!

The entry fee includes: Bacon roll and morning refreshments on arrival, homemade snacks available throughout the day, a gourmet 3 course lunch with wine, player welcome gifts and prizes.

For golf buggy bookings please contact Donnington Valley Golf Course directly.

Rezum Water Vapor Therapy Masterclass for BPH – 30th November

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Thursday 30th November 9.30 – 18.30 Rezum Water Vapor Therapy Masterclass for BPH

Suitable for consultant urologists

Join us for a masterclass on Water Vapour Therapy for BPH, which will be at Pelican Cancer Foundation Basingstoke. Click here to find out more. With a live cases from theatre, the day will include background information on Rezum Water Vapour Therapy, practical advice about patient selection and multidisciplinary considerations. To sign up for this free workshop please email Fraser Murfet or contact Pelican.

Odiham Quiz Night

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Pelican staff member Auriol and her husband David organised a fantastic Quiz Night in September at the beautiful Cross Barn in Odiham and raised over £2,000 for Pelican. The evening was incredibly well supported by their friends and local businesses and we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone involved.

 

The Greywell Ringers

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A massive thank you to the Greywell Ringers for choosing to support Pelican this Christmas. This wonderful team of ringers perform by individual request for WI meetings, Christmas parties, residential homes, etc. They are fully booked for this Christmas and already have bookings for 2016. The photo shows the Greywell Ringers performing at the Magna Carta celebrations in Odiham earlier this year.

Carols by Candlelight

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A massive thank you to everyone who attended the Pelican Cancer and St Michael’s Hospice ‘Carols by Candlelight’ Service on Thursday 10th December.

The service was extremely well attended and we would like to thank everyone for all their hard work in making the evening such a success. In particular Tim Bennett, The Director of Music and Performing Arts at Cheam School, the Cheam Chapel Choir, Joanna Seligman and The Winchester Singers, the organist David Bishop, trumpeter Andy Townsend and the Reverend Canon Jo Stoker, the Rector of St Michael’s and her wonderful team.

The church was beautifully decorated by The Friends of St Michael’s Hospice and looked magical in the candlelight.

New Year’s Day Lyme Bay Plunge 2016

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Jackie and Anna braved the wild sea on new year’s day to take the Lyme Bay Plunge in honour of a dear friend recently diagnosed with bladder cancer and raised a wonderful £230 for Pelican. They braved the sea dressed as The Cat in The Hat and Thing 1. Jackie said afterwards: “We actually felt like frauds, as, despite the sea being very rough, it was surprisingly warm. But we were determined to do it to support our dear friend. We hope that Pelican can use the money that we raised towards its great work.”

What a cool challenge to take on to help improve survival and quality of life for cancer patients!

Waitrose Community Matters

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Waitrose Basingstoke surprised us with £500 through their Community Matters scheme. Thank you to all those Waitrose customers who, by voting for us with their green tokens, have supported research and education for cancer specialists.

Putting Summer Fun into Fundraising

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Sheryl Doughty from Derbyshire raised a fantastic £859.57 for Pelican Cancer Foundation by organising a Summer Fair in honour of her mum’s friend. Sheryl says: “ We have been inspired by what you do, and, as I tend to hold an event each year for charity, this year we have chosen to do it in aid of Pelican Cancer Foundation.” Despite the weather, with plenty of stalls including hot and cold drinks, cakes, bric-a-brac, tombola, raffle, plants and more, a lot of fun was had by all who attended on Saturday, 9 July, 2016 at the Rutland Bowling Club in Ilkeston. A big thank you from all the team at Pelican to Sheryl and all who supported her fundraising event.

Pelican Annual Charity Golf Day 2016

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A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Pelican Cancer Foundation Annual Golf Day 2016. For all your good humour, bad jokes and wonderful friendship.

In spite of the weather in May, the day was a huge success – nothing dampens the great British spirit! We raised nearly £5,000 which is absolutely fantastic, and we were all really inspired by the generosity of everyone. It was lovely to meet all the teams, and we are really excited to start planning the 2017 Golf Day.

Congratulations to the Pelican Annual Charity Golf Day Winners 2016: the Lamb Brooks team (for the second year running).

Pelican Charity Race Evening 2016

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Thursday 30th June 2016, Newbury Racecourse

  A sincere thank you to everyone who
supported the amazing Pelican Charity Race
Evening 2016 in memory of John Hills and
Christian Marner. 

An exclusive race evening was held to celebrate
the lives of Christian Marner and the popular
Lambourn trainer John Hills who were two very
special men, passionate about racing and having ‘fun’. Sadly, they died from cancer far too early in life and are hugely missed. Funds were raised in support of Pelican Cancer Foundation and Pancreatic Cancer UK to help fight cancers below the belt through medical research, education, detection and pioneering precision surgery.

The Pelican team would like to thank everyone who supported this fabulous event, especially the wonderful Fiona Marner and her Event Committee.

Photo: Charlotte Plunkett who rode First Mohican to win the Charity Race at Newbury on 30th June and raised a fabulous £7,036.17 for Pelican and Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Photo: Fiona Hills with jockeys. John Hills ‘Gilderdale’ Charity Race. Pelican Charity Race Evening 2016.

3D Camera for Basingstoke Hospital

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The 3D Camera, which you, our supporters so kindly funded along with match funding from the Greenham Common Trust, was delivered to Basingstoke Hospital in April. The first operation using the new camera took place on the 15th April 2016 and was very successful. (In the photo you can see the team wearing their 3D glasses using the new 3D camera.)

Mr Venkat, the Consultant Surgeon who used the equipment first, said: “The new camera is great; the improved visibility is amazing and is enabling us to perform even more precise surgery. We have been able to do more complex cases using the new camera that would have required open surgery before. It has been particularly useful for our trainee surgeons who can now more easily perform keyhole surgery because of the depth of vision it provides.”

Thank you to everyone who donated towards our 3D camera appeal, your generosity is improving treatment for bowel cancer patients at Basingstoke Hospital.

Niche Finance Group get their Bake Off On

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The management team at Niche Finance Group decided early this year that as a group, they wanted to give something back so we put together a charity committee to organise charity support and fundraising. As a group they decided to raise money for three different organisations; the Pelican Cancer Foundation, Harbour Cancer Support Centre and Shelter.

On the 26th August they held their very first “Great Niche Bake Off” at their offices, based in Alton and Whitley and selected their own Paul Hollywood’s and Mary Berry’s very carefully as you’d expect. The winners were Stuart Selkirk who baked a delicious Pina Colada cake and Bradley George who whipped up a beautiful batch of salted caramel brownies. The runners up where Lisa Merriman with her lemon drizzle cake and Connie Waldron with her lemon tart. They also had to give recognition to Hayley Chappell for her out of this world brownie based cheesecake. A massive well done to their winners but, if you think about it… everyone’s a winner when there’s cake all over the office.

Up next on their agenda is the Great South Run in Southsea on the 23rdOctober. So far, they’ve put together a team of 13 crazy people who are looking to run the 10 miles to raise money for their chosen charities and we can’t wait to see them cross the line! This will be shortly followed by some Halloween themed activities which they’re all looking forward to.

They can’t wait to see how much they can raise for their very worthy causes!

Pelican Cancer Foundation launches national programme to fight bowel cancer

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This national programme will help specialists identify bowel cancer earlier, improve precision treatment and help patients live better for longer, wherever they live. As well as potentially improving outcomes for over 6,200 patients, it will also support local cancer services and could help save the NHS up to £34 million in the long term. (I)

Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK (II). The earlier bowel cancer is diagnosed and treated, the better the outcome for patients. Increased public awareness and improved screening have resulted in more patients being diagnosed at an earlier stage of their disease, but there is variability across the UK in the diagnosis and management of early stage cancer, with under- and over-treatment a significant global issue.

As part of the SPECC programme, six core members of all 164 Colorectal Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) in England and Wales will be invited to attend a one day workshop on the complex topic of treatment for small (T1) tumours and significant polyps. Hosted across England and Wales over 2015-2017, these workshops will bring together surgeons, radiologists, gastroenterologists, pathologists and clinical nurse specialists to look at the evidence, discuss methods for early diagnosis and treatment and develop informed decision-making for the whole bowel cancer team. Teams will be encouraged to develop their local treatment strategies as well as regional partnerships to help provide consistent treatment options across England and Wales.

The clinical lead for SPECC is Mr Brendan Moran (Surgeon at Basingstoke) with Sarah Crane at the Pelican Cancer Foundation. The eminent steering group includes Professors Wendy Atkin (Epidemiologist at Imperial), Brian Saunders (Gastroenterologist at St Marks), Gina Brown (Radiologist at Royal Marsden), Phil Quirke (Pathologist at Leeds) and Bob Steele (Surgeon at Dundee). Other leaders in the field, from hospitals around England and Wales, will help deliver the programme.

Pelican Cancer Foundation has an exceptional reputation for developing high-impact national and international meetings to improve patient care for cancer patients. Pelican developed and ran LOREC – a previous national programme to improve outcomes in patients with low rectal cancer through enhancing patient-centred decision-making for MDTs. This was attended by 1,200 cancer specialists. Its concepts and strategies influenced 90% of all English colorectal MDTs and had a global impact in the field. (III)

Commenting on the SPECC programme, Sarah Crane, CEO of Pelican Cancer Foundation, said “Our work is all about making a real difference for today’s cancer patients, both in terms of survival and quality of life. Successful roll-out of this new programme will see more consistent treatment options for bowel cancer patients wherever they live. We are very excited to be launching this vital programme and can’t wait to see the impact it will have on the daily practice of cancer specialists nation-wide. We want to thank everyone who has worked so tirelessly with us to make this programme happen.”

SPECC is endorsed by The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Beating Bowel Cancer, Bowel Cancer UK, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal College of Pathologists and kindly supported by industry sponsors, including (from September 2015 to June 2016) Gold Sponsors Exact Sciences, manufacturer of the stool DNA test Cologuard.

For further information on the SPECC programme, go to www.pelicancancer.org/specc
For further information about the Pelican Cancer Foundation, go to www.pelicancancer.org
Twitter: @Pelican_Cancer #SPECCPOLYP

Sources

I. Saving lives, averting costs: An analysis of the financial implications of achieving earlier diagnosis of colorectal, lung and ovarian cancer – A report prepared for Cancer Research UK, Incisive Health, September 2014

II. Cancer Research UK, http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/mortality/common-cancers-compared#heading-Zero, Accessed October 2015

III. Moran et al., The English National Low Rectal Cancer Development Programme: Key messages and future perspectives; Colorectal Disease, 2013, The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland 16, 173-178

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