Optimal management of GI symptoms during and after cancer treatments
On Monday 21st November the NCSI launched the ‘Practice guidance on the management of acute and chronic gastrointestinal problems arising as a result of treatment for cancer’ at a symposium in Manchester. Resources from the event can be found below.
Delegate pack
- Delegate welcome letter
- Symposium programme
- Algorithm cover note
- Algorithm
- Practice guidance (as published in Gut)
- Macmillan information booklet FOR MEN about the possible long-term side effects that can occur after radiotherapy to the pelvic area
- Macmillan information booklet FOR WOMEN about the possible long-term side effects that can occur after radiotherapy to the pelvic area
- Macmillan information booklet for people experiencing long-term side effects of bowel cancer treatment
Presentations
- Mr Graeme Poston, Director of Surgery, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and President of the Association of Upper GIs Welcoming Address
- Professor Jane Maher, Consultant Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Chief Medical Officer, Macmillan Cancer Support Life after cancer in the 21st century
- Richard Surman and Jane Norris-Jones, Pelvic Radiation Disease Association (no slides)
- Professor Alastair Munro, Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Dundee What chronic GI symptoms both patients after treatment of cancers in the pelvis
- Professor Derek Alderson, Barling Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham What chronic GI symptoms bother patients after upper GI cancer therapies
- Dr Gary Middleton, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Royal Surrey County Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust What can the oncologist do to minimise GI side effects of treatment?
- Dr Kathy Teahon, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust When should you call the gastroenterologist?
- Mr Paul Fulford, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust When should you talk to the surgeon?
- Dr Diana Tait, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Registrar of the Faculty of Clinical Oncology, Royal College of Radiologists The view from the Faculty of Clinical Oncology: a new era for management of late effects and better multidisciplinary working
- Dr Roland Valori, Consultant Gastroenterologist and National Clinical Lead for endoscopy services in England, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Accelerating adoption of the Guidance
- Dr Clare Shaw, Consultant Dietician, and Ms Ann Muls, Macmillan Nurse Consultant in Pelvic Radiation Disease, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Better management of chronic GI disease: mobilising the multidisciplinary team
- Richard Driscoll, National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Better management of chronic disease: what can patients do to improve services
- Dr Jervoise Andreyev, Consultant Gastroenterologist in Pelvic Radiation Disease, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Progress in managing chronic GI side effects of cancer treatments
Event feedback
Delegate feedback was collected at the end of the event. A summary can be found here.
Last updated on January 23, 2012