
Fiona McRonald
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15-04-2014 10:29:49
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So hugely proud to have been part of the team that put this together. Thank you Emma Crosbie and Policy@Manchester. Massively thank you to The Eve Appeal and Lynch Syndrome UK for supporting this. Still lots to be done to make sure those with Lynch get the care they need.

This week is World Childless Week (13th - 19th September 2021). All On The Board #WorldChildlessWeek #Childless #WorldChildlessWeek2021 #allontheboard



Fantastic webinar on childlessness at work ‘Working it out’ by The Full Stop Childless Community CIC this morning. Thank you for sharing your moving stories @hihellolovely @Lawro1 and Michael Hughes - we need to push for childlessness to be recognised as a diversity and inclusion issue.

This workplace inequality is even more painful given most women without children are not 'childfree by choice', as the article implies, but are involuntarily childless. Picking up slack for working parents whilst grieving the loss of one's own children is a big ask! Jody Day (Gateway Women)



Today is #Lynchsyndrome awareness day, an inherited condition leading to increased risk of several cancer types including colorectal and endometrial amongst others. #NDRS NHS England Transformation data shows that ~43% of colorectal cancers received an initial tumour test (IHC/MSI) in 2019 1/2


The energy, warmth and sense of connection in this audience is incredible. I am home Storyhouse #StoryhouseChildless

So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.


1st overview of all English NHS germline mismatch repair (MMR) tests (1996–2020) #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3G3IAg0 #ColorectalCancer #LynchSyndrome #Cancer Fiona McRonald @Torr_Bethany Alice Garrett Paul Pharoah (R soul) 🇪🇺🇵🇬🇿🇦🇬🇧 George Burghel - جورج برغل Clare Turnbull- Prof/NHS Dr Terri McVeigh MarcT




Read our latest blog featuring Helen White, highly commended at the UoM Biology, Medicine and Health ‘Outstanding Contribution to PPIE’ 2022 awards, who formed Peaches Patient Voices, a group dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by womb cancer. Peaches Womb Cancer Trust blogs.manchester.ac.uk/bmh-sr/2023/05…

Today in the The Lancet, we UK geneticists argue: "Population screening requires robust evidence—genomics is no exception" Anneke Lucassen, Helen Firth, Bill Newman, Caroline Wright, Margaret McCartney, @wilkie_lab, Robin Lachmann,TomlinsonGroup,Lucy Raymond authors.elsevier.com/a/1iD4W_3CjG8W…

Identification of people with #Lynchsyndrome from those presenting with colorectal cancer in England: baseline analysis of the diagnostic pathway European Journal of Human Genetics Fiona McRonald nature.com/articles/s4143…