BMJ talk medicine

In honor of Colon Cancer Awareness Month, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Richard McCallum and Dr. Ihsan Al Bayati, Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology at TTUHSC Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, discuss different screening modalities for colon cancer, risk factors for colon cancer, Lynch syndrome, treatment, staging, and prognosis for colorectal cancer.

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Social Media Intern, Dr Andrew Perry is joined by Dr. Gasnat Shaboodien, a researcher at the University of Cape Town who studies the genetics of cardiovascular disease.

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Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2022/02/08/heartjnl-2021-320424

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the April 2022 issue. They start this month by addressing the consequences of wars on children in light of the latest war in Ukraine.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/i

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In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. David M. Gershenson to discuss the use of trametinib in low-grade serous cancer. Dr. Gershenson is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His major focus is on the clinical and translational research of rare ovarian cancers.

Highlights:

Trametinib represents a new standard for the treatment of recurrent low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary/peritoneum.

The findings of GOG 281 suggest that women whose tumor harbors a MAPK mutation (KRAS, NRAS, BRAF) may have a greater probability of response to trametinib, but the results are hypothesis-generating, and further studies are needed. Importantly, trametinib should not be withheld from a woman whose tumor lacks MAPK mutations.

Based on the findings of GOG 281 and preclinical studies, future trials will include combinations of a MEK inhibitor plus endocrine therapy and novel agents targeting the MAPK signaling pathway or, more specifically, RAS.

In BJSM’s 500th episode, we are joined by two of the current editors, Professor Jonathan Drezner and Dr Joanna Kemp, to look ahead as well as back at the specialty in general. We discuss hot topics, the direction in which the specialty as well as the journal is heading, and we get some top tips for early career researchers and clinicians too.

The issue of food on nightshifts is a perennial grumble in the NHS, and though it might seem trivial, what does it say of an organisation if they demand their staff work when they're hungry, and what is the onward implication for that on patient care?

To discuss all of these issues, we're joined by Neely Mozawala, a community specialist diabetes podiatrist, and Sahlia Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed, a gastroenterologist who have started the #24hrhotfoodfortheNHS campaign.

We see patients all the time who ,more than any drug or cure, just want an explanation for their symptoms, to understand why they feel the way they do.

But giving an explanation isn't necessarily straightforward, we're unsure of the diagnosis, we might worry about how the explanation might be received, or a 10 minute appointment just isn't time to go into all the details.

In today's episode, we've enlisted the help of consultation skills expert, Roger Neighbour, and hear how important a great explanation is from The BMJ patient editor Amy Price.

Our guests:

Roger Neighbour is a retired GP and a former president of the Royal College of GPs. He has written the books on consultations skills, and teaches courses on how to put those skills into practice.

Amy Price is a patient, a researcher editor for The BMJ's patient and public partnership, and a senior research scientist at Stanford School of Medicine.

Patients with asthma present with recurrent episodes of shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing, or coughing.

Examination typically demonstrates an expiratory wheeze; however, in severe asthma there is poor air entry and the chest is silent.

Lauren Eggert, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, gives us a clinical overview of the condition.

For more on asthma, visit BMJ Best Practice: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/44

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In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Rene Pareja, a gynecologist-oncologist at Astorga Oncology Clinic in Medellín and the National Cancer Institute in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Pareja is a reviewer for more than 20 specialty journals, an Associate Editor for IJGC, and a member of the board of directors of the International Gynecological Cancer Society (IGCS). He is the author of nine book chapters and more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and at IGCS 2021 he received an award for Community Advancement in Resource-Limited Settings.

Highlights:

Tips for expertise in minimally invasive surgery: (1) learn from an experienced mentor, (2) train all the time, (3) get a formal course, (4) record your surgeries.

The crucial components to do surgery related research: Start to review papers, write protocols/systematic reviews, and try to work the most and tirelessly on an original project.

A successful person is someone who has failed several times.

Secrets and tips on life and professional career.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie.

Read the UpFront of the March 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2/93

The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2

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