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🚨 From ASCO 2025 👉 Preop chemo with PAXG 🆚 mFOLFIRINOX for extending event-free survival (EFS) in resectable or BR PDAC (phase 3 CASSANDRA trial) 🆙 PAXG 3-year EFS 31% vs. 13% P = .003 🫸 Immature analysis for survival but.. future practice changing?! 🧐

If you’re a GI/HPB surgeon/oncologist who couldn’t make it to ASCO 2025 & trying to scour for its ongoings online like I have been, here’s the 2 trials you’d probably be interested in with a concise breakdown: MATTERHORN, & CASSANDRA! (Also tagging ppl who are smarter than me)

I’ve been in the exercise oncology field for 20 years and for all of that time, the main criticism has been “show me a well controlled RCT.” Well, here it is. Exercise following adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer reduced recurrence and improves OVERALL SURVIVAL! #ASCO25

7/ Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer #ASCO25 ASCO NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

It was a team effort by a fantastic theatre team Bill Fawcett. A very rewarding & efficient day of operating Royal Surrey IHPBA E-AHPBA AUGIS Declan Richard Laing Jawad Ahmad

Erm….WTF???

Onwards... liverpool.ac.uk/research/news/…

Big win for robotic approach in this study of rectal cancer resections: Robotic vs Laparoscopic Surgery for Middle and Low Rectal Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

As a Doctor I am held to a standard where “if I didn’t document it, it never happened” Why is the GMC any different? If something went wrong with a patient under my care, and my documentation was non-existent, how would the GMC treat me?

Adam Frampton launching the CONNECT registry to demonstrate prospective outcomes using biodegradable stents in high risk PJ anastomosis HPB Guildford, Surrey E-AHPBA IHPBA AUGIS

First-of-a-kind pilot study from Royal Surrey and University of Surrey finds that exercising during chemotherapy and before surgery may help the body send more immune cells into cancerous tumours. Read the full article: royalsurrey.nhs.uk/news/exercise-…

🚨 New in Annals of Surgery showing ⬆️ survival with routine imaging vs symptomatic follow-up after #pdac resection. 🕵🏼‍♂️Routine imaging also associated with asymptomatic recurrence and recurrence treatment. DPCG Marc Besselink Giovanni Marchegiani journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

➡️HPB Journal Highlight 📉 Cullinane et al. found no benefit of somatostatin analogues in preventing postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatic surgery (meta-analysis, 6947 pts). Routine use not recommended! 🚫🩺 🔗tinyurl.com/3chcjf8j #PancreaticSurgery

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1): recommendations and guidelines for best practice ⁦The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology⁩ thelancet.com/journals/landi…

Preoperative management and resectability criteria in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma ➡️ bjsacademy.com/bjs-academy/yo… 🗨️ Treatment often considered futile, but a thorough work-up, and surgery for selected patients is worthwhile. -Jonothan Earnshaw #Surgery #HPB Kjetil Søreide

An update from RAPID-I on recruitment: End of June target - 113 Actual recruitment - 115 Let's keep it going! #pancreatitis #clinicalresearch #clinicaltrial

Exercizumab is real. Aerobic exercise cut colon cancer recurrence + death. It’s time to combine movement with medicine not one or the other. #oncology #Cancer NEJM OncoAlert ASCO #ASCO25 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

What does new onset diabetes mean in surgery for pancreatic cancer? ✅It’s unique to PDAC - it’s rare in other neoplastic HPB processes like ampullary or distal CCA. 🧐Its under diagnosed - it must be screened for or it won’t be identified. 🤢It increases the risk of DGE. 😁It

Hi all, we have funding for two resident doctors- post fy2-st6 to a Hpb medical oncology clinical research fellowship in Birmingham. They would do our clinical trials clinic, a standard of care clinic and have two research days a week. Please let any suitable trainees know.