Treatment for pancreatic cancer resources for health professionals

Presentations

Supporting your patients from diagnosis to treatment, 16th May 2023, Treatment options: Surgical – Lisa Woodrow, PCUK Specialist Nurse

Surgery for pancreatic cancer, 10th March 2022 – Phil Whelan, Macmillan Pancreatic Cancer CNS, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

Overview of pancreatic diseases and surgical management, 2nd November 2021 – Mr Mark Taylor, Consultant HPB Surgeon, BHSCT

Surgery for pancreatic cancer, South West Study Session, 5th July 2021 – Aditya Kanwar, Consultant HPB Surgeon, Derriford Hospital

Overview of the treatment options, 11th March 2021 – Lynne McCallum, Specialist Pancreatic Cancer Nurse, Pancreatic Cancer UK

Surgery for pancreatic cancer, current strategies and borderline cases, National Study Day, 7th October 2019 – Mr Christian Macutkiewicz, Consultant HPB Surgeon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Information for your patients

• Booklet: Pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery. A guide if you have just been diagnosed
• Fact sheet: Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer
• Fact sheet: Stents and bypass surgery
• Webpage: Surgery for pancreatic cancer
  

Presentations

Presentations: Non-surgical treatment options: Chemotherapy and clinical trials, 5th October 2022

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Chemotherapy – Treatment options: Mairéad McNamara, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester

Chemotherapy – What patients can expect and ways to manage it: Emma Ainsworth, GI Oncology Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Northern Centre for Cancer Care

Non-surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer, 10th March 2022 – Dawn Elliott, Lead UGI/CUP Clinical Nurse Specialist/Lead for UGI Cancer, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Information for your patients

• Fact sheet: Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Information sheet: Gemcitabine
• Information sheet: FOLFIRINOX
• Information sheet: Capecitabine
  
• Information sheet: Fluorouracil
• Information sheet: Oxaliplatin
  
• Information sheet: Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane)
  
• Webpage: Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
  

Presentations

Update on Stereotactic Ablative Body
Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced
(unresectable) non metastatic
Pancreatic Cancer – Dr Ganesh Radhakrishna, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie Hospital

Supporting your patients from diagnosis to treatment, 16th May 2023, Treatment options: Non Surgical – Lynne McCallum, PCUK Specialist Nurse

Non-surgical treatment options: Ablative therapies, 26th October 2022, Radiotherapy (including SABR) – Ganesh Radhakrishna, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie Hospital

Non-surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer, South West Study Session,  5th July 2021 – Dr Dominique Parslow, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Derriford Hospital

SABR: The Latest Development in Radiotherapy, Monday 5th October 2020 – Ganesh Radhakrishna, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie Hospital

• View Ganesh’s slides
• Watch the recording

Information for your patients

• Fact sheet: Radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Webpage: Radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer
  

Presentations

Non-surgical treatment options: Ablative therapies, 26th October 2022, IRE – Nicola de Liguori-Carino, Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Information for your patients

• Fact sheet: Irreversible electroporation (Nanoknife®)
• Webpage: Irreversible electroporation (NanoKnife®) for pancreatic cancer 

Update on focus ultrasound – Dr Keaton Jones, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford

Patient perspectives and
experiences of HIFU– Katherine Gordon, Quayle, Research Nurse, Churchill Hospital