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Erika Wade and Stacey Cannon discuss their roles as Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialists in the NHS

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Sue Jansen van Rensburg talks to us about her role as a dosimetrist at Oncology Professional Care 2022

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Jo McNamara and Naman Julka-Anderson catch up with Pete Wallroth as part of Living With and Beyond Cancer Series (Part 13).
Discussion about Pete's story and Mummy's Star Charity.

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) Look through the mummy’s star resources and consider how you may be able to further support a pregnant and/or a new parent going through the cancer pathway. 

2) Consider how the clinical environment may be able to support new parents e.g. breast feeding areas.

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Links from podcast:

Pete’s blog: https://mandmsdaddy.wordpress.com/ 

Mummy’s star charity: https://www.mummysstar.org/ 

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Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara catch up with Dr. Lisa Whittaker as part of Living With and Beyond Cancer Series (Part 12).
Discussion about the Radiation Reveal Project.

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) what support is available for younger individuals with a cancer diagnosis in your department?

2) reflect on the information you provide to younger individuals with a cancer diagnosis? How could you improve the information you provide?

3) does your department have a late effects service? If not, how could you improve your knowledge and gather resources to for your team?

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Links from podcast:

RadNet: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/our-research-infrastructure/radnet-our-radiation-research-network 

Teenage Cancer Trust:

https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/ 

Trekstock charity:

https://www.trekstock.com/ 

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Discussion about LEO Cancer Care and their upright LINAC and CT scanner projects.
Jo McNamara and Naman Julka-Anderson catch up with Stephen Towe Education and Workforce Development Series (Part 13).

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) Read the attached pieces of literature and reflect upon the positional impact upright treatment may have. 

2) Reflect on the impact to radiotherapy upright linear accelerators may have. 

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Links from podcast:

https://www.leocancercare.com Leo Cancer Website

https://www.practicalradonc.org/article/S1879-8500(13)00206-3/fulltext

Advantages of simulating thoracic cancer patients in an upright position

https://www.leocancercare.com/blog/civco-radiotherapy-and-leo-cancer-care-collaborate

Leo Cancer Care Blog

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Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara catch up with Dr. Kathryn Mannix as part of Dying Matters week for aiscussion around death and dying.

To use this podcast as evidence of  CPD, please undertake these reflective activities and post in the form below: 

Estimated word count: 1000 words. 
Time to complete: estimated at 2.5 hours

1) Reflect upon your conversations with friends, family and patients about death and dying. Use the podcast to consider how you could develop these conversations further. 

2) Investigate what local support services are available for patients and their family to access support with death and dying. 

3) Read the resources and literature posted alongside this podcast and reflect upon the changes you can make to your own practice. 

4) Have a conversation with a friend or family member about death and dying and your own wishes. Consider writing a will or testament so others know your wishes when the time comes.

This podcast episode can be mapped to the Principles of Nursing and RCN Code of Conduct;

Principle A - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Principle D - Personalised Person-Centred Care

NMC Code of Conduct: 1,2 & 3

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Links from podcast:

With the End in Mind: https://bit.ly/3kA2bdx and also Listen here
With the End in Mind Website: www.withtheendinmind.co.uk

Hospice UK: https://hukstage-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2021-08/No_3%20-%20Let%27s%20talk%20about%20dying_single%20pages.pdf

https://hukstage-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2021-08/No_1%20-%20Things%20to%20do%20before%20you%20die_single%20pages.pdf

Marie Curie:

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/research/end-of-life-experience-report-commissioning-brief

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/policy/better-end-life-report

Dying matters awareness week:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNKmMVPpMg

Shlobin NA, Aru J, Vicente R, Zemmar A. What happens in the brain when we die? Deciphering the neurophysiology of the final moments in life. Front Aging Neurosci. 2023 May 9;15:1143848. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1143848. PMID: 37228251; PMCID: PMC10203241. 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1143848/full
Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_mannix_what_happens_as_we_die_feb_2023?hasProgress=true&language=en

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Discussion around CERN and FLASH radiotherapy.
Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara catch up with Dr. Luke Dyks as part of the Education and Workforce Development Series (Part 12).

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) Read the journal article on FLASH-RT: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2021.644400/full 

2) Reflect on the positives and negatives of experimental techniques

3) Reflect upon the impact new treatment modalities have on the future of radiotherapy 

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CERN: https://home.cern/ 

FLASH-RT: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2021.644400/full 

CERN and FLASH-RT: https://kt.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/future-innovative-flash-facility-based-cern-breakthrough-accelerator 

CLEAR project: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/clear-study-paves-way-novel-electron-based-cancer-therapy

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Discussion about cancer genomics.
Jo McNamara and Naman Julka-Anderson catch up with Victoria Cuthill as part of the Education and Workforce Development Series (Part 11).

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) reflect on the use of genomics in your area of work e.g if you look after breast cancer patients, what learning needs do they have and how can you help them to achieve these?
2) Listen to a patient story (any story) that involves genomics in some way and reflect on what you might change in practice. 
3) How do you think genomics could change the way we approach cancer diagnosis and treatment?

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Links from podcast:

St. Marks Hospital: https://www.stmarkshospital.nhs.uk/ 

Victoria cuthill research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Victoria-Cuthill-2180635178 

Genomics: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/dfsmedia/1a6f23537f7f4519bb0cf14c45b2a629/4462-10061/mac18860-top-10-tips-primary-care-genomics-and-cancer-a4l-and-a4p-3

Personalised medicine; https://www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/news-and-resources/blogs/what-are-the-opportunities-for-personalised-medicine-in-rare-disease-and-cancer

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Jo McNamara and Naman Julka-Anderson catch up with Catherine Holborn and Emma Hallam as part of the Living With and Beyond Cancer Series (Part 11).

To use this podcast as CPD, look at these reflection points: 

1) What does survivorship mean to you and how do you support palliative care patients to access late effects resources? 

2) How do you explain treatment side effects to your patients? How could you improve your terminology and encompass long term side effects? 

3) Does your department have a late effects service, if not what services or support is available locally for patients? 

4) Watch Emma’s You Tube late effects video and reflect on your learning from this. 

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Links from podcast:

Survivorship: https://ecpc.org/policy/survivorship/#:~:text=Survivorship%20is%20about%20supporting%20cancer,the%20end%20of%20cancer%20care 

Society and college of radiographers late effects interest group: https://www.sor.org/about/get-involved/special-interest-groups/radiotherapy-late-effect-sig 

Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome: the evergreen menace of radiation therapy: https://dx.doi.org/10.4103%2Fapjon.apjon_71_18

GatewayC early cancer diagnosis:

https://www.gatewayc.org.uk 

Personalised care institute:

https://www.personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk 

Prehab and rehab short course at Sheffield Hallam university: 

https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/options/health-and-social-care/short-courses-and-modules/msc-enhanced-radiotherapy-and-oncology 

Advanced clinical practice short course at Sheffield Hallam university: 

https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/radiotherapy-and-oncology/msc-advanced-clinical-practice-radiotherapy-and-oncology/distance-learning 

Prosper e-learning module:

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/prosper/ 

Macmillan late effects:

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/after-treatment/late-effects-of-treatment 

Coping with late effects:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/survivorship/late-effects 

Emma Hallam You Tube - Late effects clinic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8tEm1aoMo 

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