The plot is thickening…Complete mesocolic excision for right colonic cancer: prospective multicentre study academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

🧵 NEW: Should junior doctors get a 35% pay rise?? Most unions are timid about broaching double figure pay rise demands: not the BMA. But the fact is, the NHS doesn’t have the pull it once did - and doctors can double their salary overseas The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/7cdda1…

Norwich pelvic sidewall exenteration workshop. Mr Jenkins St Mark's Hospital kicks off the meeting. Had a great MDT session at RadiologyNNUH @ACPGBI escp

🚨🚨🚨 PROSPECT Trial has landed! Congratulations to all investigators, Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, for this important trial! This study is important, will shape, and SHOULD alter practice for OPERATIVELY managed patients with favorable risk LA- rectal cancer. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Save the date for the @ACPGBI 'IBD Midlands' day 20 Nov23 in Birmingham w/ MidOx IBD Bringing together surgeons, gastroenterologists & patients to discuss the latest advances in IBD Plus, launch of OCEaN Trial (EEN + Crohn's Surgery)! #IBDMidlands #OCEANtrial Austin Acheson

Guy's and St Thomas' Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Portsmouth Hospitals University NHST Our next nominee for the #SilverScalpel 2024 award is a Consultant Colorectal and Paediatric Surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital - we present to you Mr Mark Dilworth! 👏 #NoTrainingToday #NoSurgeonsTomorrow has never been more true 🎯

Is the risk of distant metastasis higher in those rectal cancer pts undergoing surgery for local regrowth compare to those undergoing upfront surgery for near complete response after chemoradiation? Find out in #DCRJournal: bit.ly/3RoOL3Z @Swexner SoMe4Surgery @ACPGBI

🚨🚨🚨 Rectal Cancer Tweetorial!! Rectal cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease with rapid evolution in practice. Let's review current data to generate a pragmatic, patient-centric, approach to management! #GI24 #GIonc #RadOnc Thank you ASCO for the opportunity!🙏🏽 1/

Pelvic exenteration surgery technical approaches to the five anatomical compartments of the pelvis ➡️bit.ly/49DT5DU #CuttingEdgeBlog article by Professor Michael Solomon providing further insight into the research letter and video vignette published in BJS:

We are so excited to be hosting Pelvex in London this year. We are looking forward to vibrant discussions with pelvic exenteration community. See you in London. Register now. eventbrite.co.uk/e/pelvex-londo…

Come join us in London Royal Institution in June for PelvexLondon2024 PelvEx . A truly outstanding meeting planned. Panglobal pelvic exenteration people- we need you! @ACPGBI The Dukes' Club ASCRS_1 European Society of Coloproctology Young ESCP CSSANZ BSGAR Royal College of Anaesthetists European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) Society of Surgical Oncology BASO~The Association for Cancer Surgery

This will, without doubt, be one of the finest moments of my career. So very humbled to receive this award. Far too many people to thank here. Huge congratulations to my fellow nominees and to the ASiT committee. Let keep the work going

Double-blinded MOBILE2-trial found that mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics reduced the rate of overall morbidity, surgical site infections and anastomotic leaks compared to mechanical bowel preparation only prior anterior rectal resection. ja.ma/3VouoaE

jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… The St Mark’s Fellowships 2024/25 are out for grabs. Apply now! Robotic/ Complex Cancer/ IBD & robotics/ pelvic floor and Intestinal Rehabilitation. The finishing school is waiting for you.

Interesting RCT from Journal of Clinical Oncology evaluating the impact of upfront primary tumor resection on overall survival for patients with unresectable stage IV colon cancer. It's no surprise to most of us that colectomy does not improve OS. The study highlights the extreme difficulty in

🔥Appendicitis and CT scans🔥 Is your practice evidence-based, or just based on previous difficult cases? The new RIFT-2 paper is published today in impact-surgery.com Here is why I CT scan nearly every patient with a medium/high risk of appendicitis 🧵:

🚨PRODIGE23🚨 Long term results now published! T3-4 rectal adenocarcinoma Randomized: CRT➡️🔪➡️FOLFOX mFOLFIRINOX ➡️ CRT➡️🔪➡️FOLFOX ✅✅✅Improved OS!!! Looking forward to JANUS clarifying if TNT with FOLFIRINOX vs. FOLFOX improves cCR and/or DFS/OS pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38986769/