Great work by our Masters student Sabrina Fried! Two different Esophageal Adenocarcinoma PDOs responding to Docetaxel Cisplatin 5FU. The patient from whom the left organoid was derived had pCR. An ex vivo platform to guide neoadjuvant therapy in EAC is almost here!

Hugely important initiative. Imperial team to launch COVID-19 information platform | Imperial News | Imperial College London ⁦PanSurg⁩ ⁦Surgery and Cancer⁩ imperial.ac.uk/news/199256/im…

Really key messages. 1. In April 2020 89% reduction in OGD in England. 2. Estimated 750 undiagnosed oesophageal and gastric cancer 3. Estimated 213 curative from jan to April 2020. Secondary effects of covid. @Jonny_M_Clarke James Kinross PanSurg

londonsurgery.org This years themes are (1) surgical training so very topical given the Covid pandemic...and (2) quality control in surgical trials. The 2 hour webinar is free- delegates need to register via the website above It is running on tues 22 Sep 3-5pm JOIN US!

Delighted to be part of this international consensus creating standardised criteria for fit for discharge after esophagectomy.Lorenzo Ferri MD PhD Suzanne Gisbertz MarkvanBergeHenegouwen Frans van Workum R. van Hillegersberg Bas Wijnhoven academic.oup.com/dote/advance-a…

Interested in radical OG Cancer Surgery, Therapeutic Endoscopy/EUS and Oesophageal Emergencies? Royal Surrey OG Unit are looking for an enthusiatic OesophagoGastric Fellow. Please get in touch. jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916… Nima Abbassi-Ghadi The Roux Group OG Anastomosis Audit AUGIS ISDE.net

As the excellent Frans van Workum is finishing his year with us in Dec we are now advertising for his replacement. We now do >100 OG cancers a year and offer excellent training opportunities. Get in touch for more info Imperial NHS 💙 Surgery and Cancer Krishna Moorthy jobs.imperial.nhs.uk/job/v2676030

Importance of prehabilitation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33269459/

Can we use intraoperative video to study the effects of surgical technique? New study by Karan Chhabra, MD MSc J Thumma Oliver Varban Justin B. Dimick of Michigan Surgery @BWHSurgery shows significant associations between video evaluations & sleeve gastrectomy outcomes ja.ma/3oQGCp4

Glad to have opened and recruited the first patient to the Surgery and Cancer early #OG cancer Breath Study @qehbham UHB Research with Ewen A Griffiths Great study to be involved with in improving early diagnosis of these cancers The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Interested in joining our UGI team for a 1-year fellowship from October 2021 in Nottingham? Need to be post-CCT or equivalent. Cancer resections, PLOs, hiatal hernias, POEMS, robotics, ESDs/EMRs & bariatrics starting in 2021. UGI on calls only. Apply at jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916…

PhD is essentially a training degree to acquire a new set of skills to answer a research question and beyond to solve problems in clinical practice. Not only technical scientific skills but also positive attitude and resilience. The impossible only takes a little longer.

Nice letter Sheraz and others! I completely agree with your arguments to improve the science behind measuring surgical performance and to integrate it into trials, training and benchmarking initiatives

Case of AL after ivor-lewis esophagectomy: 60 yr 👨, post-op day 5, CRP 220mg/L, no organ failure, no drains in situ. CT: mediastinal collection, EGD: no ischemia. What is your initial treatment? Help gain insight in treatment of AL, fill in our survey: surveymonkey.com/r/RD29QRQ

First Minimally Invasive Cervical Esophagectomy without thoracic access in an esophageal cancer patient in the #Radboudumc. We are very happy and proud to make these steps together with our Japanese colleagues

#RapidGuideline on #TaTME, under development! Submit your comments to the protocol: mailchi.mp/eaes.eu/rapid-… @sa_antoniou, Dimitris Mavridis, Nader Francis, Alberto Arezzo, Antonio de Lacy, Luigi Boni, F. Borja de Lacy, MD, PhD, Marta Penna, Michel Adamina, Steven D Wexner MD, PhD, Neil Smart, Patricia Sylla,

Nice work Robert!!

Delighted to launch this exciting new EAES initiative to debate novel key MIS publications. Fantastic panel to debate the LOGICA trial R. van Hillegersberg Suzanne Gisbertz Nick Maynard Lorenzo Ferri MD PhD Young Woo Kim. Beat Müller. Please register and join us!

ICAN Randomized Clinical Trial. Proud that our paper on better outcomes after intrathoracic instead of cervical anastomoses after transthoracic MIE, has been published in JAMA Surgery online. Great teamwork! ja.ma/2R5hIa7

📣TENTACLE Collaborator Webinar On Tuesday, December 7th, we will organize a webinar for collaborators to: 1. Meet study team & collaborators 2. Share study progress 3. Discuss future studies on AL Tuesday 7/12, 1800 UTC+1, ZOOM-link in newsletter. Hope to see you there!🙌