New data from NOGU (Northern Oesophagogastric Unit) on #oesophageal #cancer #prognostication in Annals of Surgical Oncology 1) Degree of downstaging after #neoadjuvant impacts long-term survival 2) Downstaged tumors improved outcome over comparable path stage with no #neoadjuvant link.springer.com/article/10.124… ISDE.net

Thanks GASTROS Study for your support Annals of Surgery #COVID19surgery COVIDSurg @pan_surg ISDE.net

Oesophago-gastric cancer surgeons: OG Anastomosis Audit are running an important survey to help us better understand the current challenges in the management of oesophago-gastric cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please complete and share widely.

Many thanks for all the support ->140 centres from 38 countries inputting into this survey Great response so far and closing in the weekend Please have your say when you get a chance Ewen A Griffiths Sheraz Markar Ravinder Vohra MarkvanBergeHenegouwen Biniam Kidane docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Delay to surgery is major worry for patients with #cancer worldwide. bbc.com/news/uk-wales-… We need data to ensure ongoing cancer surgery is safe during #COVID19 + measure impact of on cancer patients and pathways All cancers eligible Sign up: globalsurg.org/cancercovidsurg

The responses from centres are great so far - inclusion have surpassed the participation from the OG Anastomosis Audit study itself in terms of centres and countries Spread the word please to understand what centres are doing! Annals of Surgery #COVID19surgery COVIDSurg @pan_surg

Kate Prior Prof Steve Wigmore Prof Steve Wigmore @TheCFSG Guy Shingler Dr Phil Hammond 💙 Tamas Szakmany MBE Kieran Foley @DMSResearch Tom Pinkney HPB Research UK Stella Vig #NHS

Really important Study, needs international collaboration to feedback rapidly the impact on patients of potential delays in cancer surgery due to COVID-19 The Roux Group Ricochet Study AUGISt AUGIS IHPBA IMPROVE Panc OG Anastomosis Audit GBIHPBA Pancreatic Cancer Action Pancreatic Cancer UK

Past 3 days -> 173 response, 166 centres, 45 countries! Amazing work by all surgeons contributing to this amidst current #COVID19 pandemic #Collaboration Survey closes Monday 30/03/20 11.59pm (GMT) 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇷🇨🇲🇨🇦🇨🇴🇨🇿🇩🇰🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇷🇭🇰🇭🇺🇮🇷🇮🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇯🇴🇰🇪🇱🇧🇱🇹🇱🇺🇲🇾🇲🇽🇳🇱🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇬🇵🇰🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺🇰🇷

Great responses from centres within 3 days of this survey Interesting variation already in prioritisation of cancer resections so far Annals of Surgery #COVID19surgery COVIDSurg @pan_surg Operation COVID #OpCOVID #Collaboration #OGcancers

Great to now have -> 204 responses, 190 centres, 46 countries! Survey closes Monday 30/3/20 2359(GMT) Annals of Surgery #COVID19surgery COVIDSurg @pan_surg Operation COVID #OpCOVID

So far -> 218 responses, 210 centres, 49 countries Very useful information and interesting variation in practice during #COVID19 #Collaboration Survey closing 30/03/20 2359 (GMT) - please have your say! Annals of Surgery The Lancet Oncology COVIDSurg PanSurg #Covid19surgery

Final call for responses before survey closes today at 2359 (GMT) 232 responses -> 220 centres, 50 countries!! Amazing response and grateful to everyone coming together! Annals of Surgery #covid19surgery COVIDSurg @pan_surg Operation COVID #OpCOVID

Real time data of impact of COVID on pancreatic cancer services coming soon, thanks to UK wide collaboration, together we can make a difference Pancreatic Cancer UK The Royal College of Surgeons of England Prof Keith Roberts Robert Sutcliffe Prof Steve Wigmore Ryan Baron Claire Jones Alex Navarro Jawad Ahmad

Cholecystitis - will treating gallbladder disease initially conservatively during the COVID crisis mean more difficult operations and be even more costly for the health service? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27762448 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29956029/

Amazing data Ewen A Griffiths - very valuable Hopefully interesting to compare the data from CHOLECOVID to this!

Sorafenib now second line systemic treatment for #HCC

Is thought to be the most complex resection, especially Lap. An international PS comparative study. Still important advantages but obviously the advantages fade with the increase surgical complexities IHPBA E-AHPBA Adnan Alseidi SoMe4HPB sages Marc Besselink SoMe4Surgery

🚩Join tomorrow! ⤵️ 🗣Chaired by Dr Elena Rangelova, Dr Grok Finance & Dr Stefano Partelli essoweb.org/courses/ #pancreaticsurgery #PancreaticCancerAwarenessMonth

1/ This is my favourite story of the beginnings of gallbladder surgery in Birmingham by Lawson Tait (who was a famous gynaecologist) who has a blue plaque in Lozells area