BTOG - British Thoracic Oncology Group

BTOG Steering Committee Vice Chair, Dr Tom Newsom Davis, Consultant in Medical Oncology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London talks with Karen Clayton, Macmillan Lung Cancer Lead Nurse, Macclesfield DGH, East Cheshire Trust and Committee Member of Lung Cancer Nursing UK  

BTOG Steering Committee Respiratory Trainee Representative, Dr Helen McDill talks with Professor Nick Maskell, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Bristol (UoB) and Honorary Consultant Chest Physician at North Bristol NHS Trust.

BTOG Steering Committee Member, Dr Stephen Harrow, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre talks with Dr David Palma, Radiation Oncologist at the London Health Sciences Centre, Canada and Clinician-Scientist with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

BTOG Steering Committee Vice Chair, Dr Tom Newsom Davis, Vice-Chair of the BTOG Steering Committee talks with Professor Sanjay Popat the Chair of the BTOG Steering Committee.

BTOG Steering Committee Vice Chair, Dr Tom Newsom Davis, Consultant in Medical Oncology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London talks with Dr Angeles Montero, Cardiothoracic Consultant Histopathologist at Manchester University Hospital. 

BTOG Steering Committee Respiratory Trainee Representative, Dr Helen McDill talks with Dr Emma O’Dowd, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and member of NCRI Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis Group

BTOG Steering Committee Respiratory Trainee Representative, Dr Helen McDill talks with Dr Matthew Evison, Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at the North West Lung Cancer & University of Manchester and Clinical Lead for the CURE Programme and Tobacco Addiction.

Live on Thursday 9th December, experts Mr Shobhit Baijal, Dr Joanne Evans and Dr Rafaelle Califano discuss immunotherapy in NSCLC, in SCLC and managing immunotherapy toxicities.

BTOG Steering Committee Vice Chair, Tom Newsom-Davis talks with Dr Neal Navani, Consultant/Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine at University College London Hospital

BTOG Steering Committee Vice Chair Tom Newsom-Davis talks to Professor Samreen Ahmed, Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals of Leicester about EGFR mutated lung cancer.

Chaired by Tom Newsom-Davies with guest speakers on the following topics: Pain: Interventional anaesthesia for thoracic malignancies – Rachael English, CNS Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre Breathlessness: New developments – Professor Marie Fallon, University of Edinburgh Cachexia – Barry Laird, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Edinburgh

BTOG Steering Committee members, Dr Matt Evison and Dr Sanjay Agrawal, developed an interesting programme for this BTOG Masterclass: Leading your Lung Cancer Pathway. 

BTOG experts bring you a whistle-stop tour of the relevant presentations from these two landmark conferences, with a focus on the research that might change practice in the UK. Approved for 1 category 1 (external) CPD credit from the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.

James Spicer chairs this BTOG Masterclass session where Alastair Greystoke will talk about adjuvant targeted therapies while Samreen Ahmed will talk about peri-operative immunotherapy.

BTOG Surgical Webinar – Controversies in the Management of Early-Stage Lung Cancer Thursday 25th March 2021 Biographies Kelvin Lau Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, London I am consultant and lead thoracic surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. I qualified from the University of Oxford in 2002. During my time at Oxford I was awarded a ICRF scholarship to investigate molecular angiogenesis and va...

BTOG Steering Committee members present an update on relevant data/research presented at WCLC 2020 (postponed from September 2020 to January 2021). Welcome Tom Newsom-Davis Top Medical Oncology Abstracts Riyaz Shah Q&A Tom Newsom-Davis Top Clinical Oncology Abstracts Fiona McDonald Q&A Tom Newsom-Davis Top Respiratory Medicine Abstracts Richard Booton Q&A & Close Tom Newsom-Davis  ...

Aims: to educate delegates on benefits of next generation sequencing (NGS) genotyping to identify rare variants for NHS-reimbursed therapies, compassionate use programmes and trials enrolment. All data will pertain to advanced NSCLC. Chair: Professor Sanjay Popat 17:30 Introduction Sanjay Popat 17:31 BRAF, KRAS, & insertion mutations you need to know about Raffaele Califano 17:46 Splices and fusio...

BTOG Masterclass on Stage III NSCLC Approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom 

BTOG Masterclass: Diagnosing Lung Cancer  

  Chair: Professor Sanjay Popat Panel: Professor David Baldwin (Respiratory Medicine); Mr John Edwards (Surgery); Professor Samreen Ahmed (Medical Oncology); Professor Matthew Hatton (Clinical Oncology); Josie Roberts (Nursing); Dr Rhiannon Walters-Davies (Pharmacy) Each panellist briefly summarises how practice has changed in their specialty and focus on moving forward with endemic COVID Panel di...

  Chair: Dr Tom Newsom-Davis – BTOG Steering Committee Vice-Chair Faculty: Dr Shobhit Baijal, Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospital Birmingham NHST Dr David Gilligan, Consultant Oncologist and Associate Lecturer, University of Cambridge – Cambridge University Hospitals NHST Professor James Spicer, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine and Consultant in Medical Oncology, King’s Col...

  Exploring studies and advances in thoracic oncology showcased at the IASLC WCLC 2020 Virtual Presidential Symposium on 8th August and the potential implications on UK practice. View on demand at btogwebinars.org   Programme Chair: Professor Sanjay Popat The faculty will disseminate the trial data presented, discuss in UK context, and take questions. ORIENT-11 Alastair Greystoke Abstract 1: ORIEN...