Today is #IWD2024

Professor Fiona Thistlethwaite is a consultant, medical director and researcher in experimental cancer medicine at #TheChristie . The one thing that links all her roles is innovation.

Find out more about her and her career
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My eldest turned 16 yesterday. I didn’t know if I’d see this milestone as almost ten years ago my breast cancer diagnosis was pretty serious. But here she is, and here I am, still standing to celebrate her. So lucky. Thank you The Christie NHS Dr Greg Wilson for getting me here 💗

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then patients win.”

World Cancer Day

How life changes in an instant ...

The “night before” photo, happy, first night out after the birth of our 5 month old daughter & we had our 2.5 year old son aswell. I was 38 years old. Life was good.

Next day I found a breast lump & my life & our lives

Rush - Xanadu

300 people to benefit from new treatment for advanced breast cancer recommended by NICE following price deal@- this is great news. In my anecdotal experience Talazoparib is an excellent drug with few side effects. nice.org.uk/news/article/3…

Thanks everyone for participating and your wish list! Here are the results from GPT 4 - congrats to the winners MT Pals, @mickworld22, @charlie3Bravo3, Dr Greg Wilson & @ShawnDoher15602. I will be reaching out to you guys

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Wow! So nobody in Northern Ireland wants to do Clinical Oncology? Only 2 posts filled in Med Onc out of 6! Scotland also woeful, even worse than England 🤔 Jo Taylor Colin Paul

Incredible 22 degree halo around the Moon and Jupiter tonight. Can see from central Manchester.

One of my all time favourite songs

Once again: No special diet cures or prevents cancer. If someone is telling you they do they likely don’t actually know the evidence or trying to sell you something…. #bcsm

Last year, nearly 8,000 patients received almost 93,000 radiotherapy treatment sessions here at #TheChristie

This wouldn't be possible without our fantastic team of radiographers. Thank you for everything you do for patients. 💙 👏 👏

#WoldRadiographyDay #Radiotherapy

The awards are tonight!! 🙌 THIS IS MCR AWARDS ®

Considering Adjuvant CDK4/6 Inhibitors?: monarchE and NATALEE in Clinical Practice ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/AD…
#bcsm ASCO

Can you solve this in 10 min? ⏳

White to mate in 2! ✅

Huge thanks to BBC North West for the opportunity to publicise the benefits of radial access intervention!! Pro patient choice and safety Jim Nolan Darren Klass The Christie NHS The British Society of Interventional Radiology CIRSE Merit Medical Terumo Interventional Systems Sirtex Medical Boston Scientific Dr Jon Bell

FDA approves trifluridine and tipiracil with bevacizumab for previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer
👉based on SUNLIGHT (NCT04737187)
👇fda.gov/drugs/drug-app…
ESMO - Eur. Oncology OncoAlert

Reason number 41826393728 why junior doctors are leaving the NHS:

I live 40 miles away from a hospital I’m due to be on call at for a whole weekend, and they want to charge me to stay overnight….

Happy to share our MD Anderson Cancer Center newly published paper about #lobular_breast_cancer in the European Journal of Cancer

Our study looked at the prognostic value of LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ), a facultative precursor of #ILC , when found at the time of diagnosis of #ILC

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