Pauline’s symptoms were fobbed off as IBS for a year because of her age. By the time her bowel cancer was diagnosed it was stage 4. Her liver was full of cancer. The amount of young bowel cancer patients who have similar stories is shocking. This MUST change. #nevertooyoung

Discharged 5 years & 4 months after diagnosis of stage 3 bowel cancer - it was in my lymph nodes plus the highly undesirable B-RAF mutation. Get tested if you have something weird happening in your bowels, or even if you haven’t. I had none of the usual symptoms

Sas Banerjee Ian Daniels FRCS Neil Smart @ACPGBI Colorectal Disease European Hernia Society American Hernia Society European Society of Coloproctology Please feel free to share nice stories or photos of Neil, there’s lot of great stories coming out that can allow us to reflect and smile in such a difficult time

Ian Daniels FRCS Frank McDermott Sas Banerjee Neil Smart @ACPGBI Colorectal Disease European Hernia Society American Hernia Society European Society of Coloproctology Smarty always said that the first thing I ever said to him was, "You're the red crochtless knicker man" which, to be fair, sounds like something I'd say! This photo will never get old 😍

Ian Daniels FRCS Neil Smart Frank McDermott @ACPGBI Colorectal Disease European Hernia Society American Hernia Society European Society of Coloproctology A giant of our clinical and academic specialty, & filled with human kindness. A champion for patients. He will be sorely missed by so many around the world. @ACPGBI and Colorectal Disease are indebted to Neil & we will make a formal statement after due thought & discussion. RIP Neil

The ever questioning ⁦Neil Smart⁩ happiest when the 🚁 is on the ground - unhappiest when he asked what if engine cuts out…so the pilot did - became a glider as he squealed “switch it back on” - Hard to believe he hated heights & flying 🤣 - so many stories #RIP mate

‘Normalisation of deviance’ was a term used after tragic Challenger Shuttle disaster when pre-flight issues were accepted by NASA Patients on trolleys in corridors has also become ‘normalised’ Cutting corners to save time or effort is another example that can impact on safety

IA is very sad to share the news of the recent death of Professor Neil Smart, PhD, FRCS, one of our Trustees and co-chair of our research subcommittee. Neil was an extraordinary human being and a brilliant and technically gifted surgeon, Read full tribute iasupport.org/professor-neil…

Steven D Wexner MD, PhD Antonino Spinelli Patricia Sylla BJS Colorectal Disease Ian Daniels FRCS Frank McDermott B Todd Heniford SueB Gabrielle van Ramshorst, MD FECSM FEBS FSSO Deena Harji Katie Adams (m. Waters) Jim Khan Dieter Hahnloser Ian Jenkins European Society of Coloproctology Young ESCP John Monson MD FRCS FACS FASCRS Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD FACS FASCRS ASCRS_1

🎉 Another milestone for Origin Sciences! We’ve opened our new clinical suite at Hollinswood House, Telford, to support our £1m #TRIOMIC study in partnership with SaTH. Over the next year 6,000 symptomatic patients will take part, helping us advance #ColorectalCancer screening!

Bowel Cancer UK Bowel Cancer symptom checker #bowelcancer #BowelCancerAwareness

Tribute to Professor Neil Smart At #ACPGBI2025 we celebrated Neil's life, legacy & dedication to his patients & colorectal surgery Thank you to all who shared their memories💙 ➡️bit.ly/Neil-Smart SaySo Medical Justin Davies Katie Adams (m. Waters) #Colorectal #CelebrationOfLife

We were proud to be on BBC Breakfast this morning talking about our team, ColostomyUK and #Stomas! #upthepurps💜 #rugbyleague

Medicine needs an AC-12 team to go around looking for funny business 👀

This is why Resident doctors in England are taking a stand against the Government - it’s time to pay us what we're worth. Support us on the picket lines 📢 25 to 30 July #PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike bma.org.uk/residentspay

Schrodinger’s Doctor … simultaneously too important to be able to strike but not important enough to be paid more than their assistants.

Chemoradiotherapy followed by local excision with transanal endoscopic microsurgery achieved noninferior results vs standard total mesorectal excision treatment. ja.ma/4laXaFM Xavier Serra-Aracil Eloy Espín

Sadly, you won't see this clip on CNN but you should. The United States of America MADE A DEAL and a COMMITMENT to protect #Ukraine IN EXCHANGE for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons. Donald Trump has aggressively breached this commitment and turned Ukraine into a garage sale.

Increasing the use of pragmatic clinical trials in surgery could address the challenges of conducting RCTs by optimizing generalizability, standardizing data use, and encouraging surgeon participation. ja.ma/4mAWquv Ali Abbasi

Another reason for trainees to join the British Hernia Society. Neil would have approved. 🥲 Thank you American Hernia Society