Simply Oncology
Welcome to Simply Oncology.
Cancer is daunting for both patients and for clinical teams.
Dr John McGrane and Dr Michael Rowe are oncologists who want to break down the complex parts of cancer care into clear and simple sessions.
We will dive deep into the world of cancer research, patient stories and the latest cancer breakthroughs.
Simply Oncology will have patient focused episodes along with episodes that allow anyone with an interest in oncology to stay up to date.
We hope you join us as we unpick all parts of cancer.
John & Mike
Episodes
48 episodes
Episode 47: Patient Fundamentals - Understanding Head and Neck Cancer with Dr Claire Paterson
Join us for this episode where we explore Head and Neck cancers and their treatment.This is a group of cancers from the mouth to the vocal cords and make up the 8th most common group of cancers in the UK.Almost 13000 cases happen ...
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Episode 46: Fundamentals - Discussing breast radiotherapy with Professor Mark Beresford (part 2)
Welcome back for our 2nd part of our radiotherapy update on breast cancer.We finish our discussion with Professor Mark Beresford who is Chair of the UK Breast Group.We discuss the timing of radiotherapy around breast reconstructio...
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Episode 45: Fundamentals - Discussing breast radiotherapy with Professor Mark Beresford (part1)
Join us for the first part of this 2 part masterclass in breast radiotherapy.Breast radiotherapy is a major component of breast cancer treatment. It forms a large part of all radiotherapy delivered across cancer centres.After remo...
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Episode 44: In the Clinic - Discussing how we bridge cancer Health Inequities with Dr Olubukola Ayodele
Join us for the 2nd part of our discussion with Dr Olubukola (Bookie) Ayodele on health inequities in cancer care.We look at potential steps to promote health equity.Bookie introduces the concept of 'Cultural Competency' in helpin...
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Episode 43; In the Clinic - Health inequities in cancer care - Dr Olubukola Ayodele part 1
Join us for this Simply Oncology podcast episode on Health Inequites in the UK with Dr Olubukola Ayodele.🎙️We discuss the challenges in delivering equitable cancer care across all patients in the UK.🎙️we hear a recent report stating tha...
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Episode 42: In the Clinic - Part 2 of Bladder preservation bladder cancer with Ananya Choudhury
Join us for our second part of our discussions with the excellent Professor Ananya Choudhury where we discuss the option of bladder preserving treatment in muscle invasive bladder cancer.In this episode we hear Ananya's views on new Anti...
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Episode 41: In the Clinic - Discussing bladder radiotherapy and preservation in Bladder cancer with Professor Ananya Choudhury
Join us for this episode focusing on the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of bladder cancer. We talk to leading bladder radiotherapy expert Professor Ananya Choudhury.Ananya is passionate about all things bladder cancer related and ...
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Episode 40: In the Clinic - Discussing Burnout & individual Resilience with Professor Susana Banerjee (part 2)
Join us in this second part of discussing resilience and burnout and oncology with Professor Susana Banerjee.In our last episode we looked at the ESMO Resilience Taskforce and what institutions should do to improve resilience.In t...
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Episode 39: In the Clinic - ESMO Resilience Task Force & Oncology Burnout with Professor Susana Banerjee
Burnout in oncology and throughout healthcare is a major issue.An ESMO survey conducted in young Oncologists in 2013-2014 revealed 70% of young oncologists in Europe were impacted by burnout. 25% of oncologists surveyed were ...
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Episode 38: In the Clinic - The Shape of oncology with Dr Tom Roques, Vice-President of the RCR
Join us for this special episode of the Simply Oncology Podcast.We have special guest Dr Tom Roques who is the Vice-President of the Royal College of Radiologists and lead for Clinical Oncology.Tom speaks candidly and clearly on ;...
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Episode 37: In the Clinic - How to become an oncologist with Dr Louise Hanna- RCR lead for medical training
Join us for this episode of Simply Oncology where we discuss how to become an oncologist.Oncology is always a forward thinking and progressive speciality and this involves training and developing training people to meet that challenge.
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Episode 36: In the Clinic - Discussing anal cancer with Dr Rebecca Muirhead
Join us in this week as we discuss anal cancer with Dr Rebecca Muirhead.Based at Oxford University Hospital, Dr Muirhead has played a key role in the adoption of IMRT in anal cancer. She is part of the ACT and PLATO trial group and share...
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Episode 35: In the Clinic - Overview of prostate radiotherapy with Dr Alison Tree, 37 to 5 treatments
Join us as we discuss all things prostate radiotherapy with Dr Alison Tree. Alison is synonymous with all things prostate radiotherapy and is superb at setting the scene for prostate cancer.Based at The Royal Marsden Hospital, ...
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Episode 34: In the Clinic - Part 2 of discussing high grade brain tumours with Professor Anthony Chalmers
Join us for part 2 of our excellent review of high grade brain tumours with Professor Anthony Chalmers.We look at the role of PARPi and the challenges with new therapies in high grade gliomas.We discuss tumour treatment fields, vaccine ...
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Episode 33: In the Clinic - Discussing high grade brain tumours with Professor Anthony Chalmers
Join us today as we discuss high grade brain tumours with internationally recognised expert Professor Anthony Chalmers.Part 1 of 2 and we discuss implications of new molecular profiling on prognosis and treatment options in high grade brain...
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Episode 32: In the Clinic - Discussing Global Oncology with Dr Susannah Stanway
This week the Simply Oncology podcast goes global!Over 80 % of the world population is living in low or middle income countries.In this podcast, we're hopefully going to try and cover what is global oncology, what some of...
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Episode 31: In the Clinic - Discussing mCRPC with Professor Alison Birtle
Join us for our second discussion with Professor Alison Birtle on metastatic prostate cancer.This time we look at mCRPC. What are our choices after first line therapy.We discuss;-PARPi and BRCA testing-Docetaxel re-challenge...
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Episode 30: In the Clinic - Discussing metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer with Professor Alison Birtle
Join us as we discuss the frontline therapy of metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer with Professor Alison Birtle.Alison has been involved in many of the key trials in urological cancers and shares her take on sel...
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Episode 29: In the Clinic - Ovarian cancer with Dr Shibani Nicum & Dr Rebecca Bowen
Join us in this episode where we look at the treatment landscape in ovarian cancer.We talk to Dr Shibani Nicum and Dr Rebecca Bowen who both specialise in the treatment of ovarian cancer.They both lead the UK Gyn...
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Episode 28: In the Clinic -Discussing Health inequalities in UK cancer care with Benson Fayehun
Join us as we talk with Benson Fayehun, a passionate advocate for addressing health inequalities. Benson is the Founder and President of the Relief for Human Suffering Foundation, a U.S.-based public charity, and the UK Head of...
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Episode 27: In the Clinic - Discussing Endometrial cancer conference updates from ESMO and IGCS with Dr Gemma Eminowicz
After a great overview of cervical cancer highlights we now go back to gynae cancer specialist Dr Gemma Emminowicz for insight on endometrial cancer highlights.KEYNOTE B21- looking at adding pembrolizuamb in the adjuvant setting...
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Episode 26: In the Clinic - Discussing Cervical cancer conference updates from ESMO and IGCS with Dr Gemma Eminowicz
We talk again to Gynae-oncology specialist - the excellent -Dr Gemma Eminowicz from UCL hospital. Gemma also played a key role supporting Dr Mary McCormack in delivering the INTERLACE trial.We talk about updates from ESMO and IGCS...
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Episode 25: Patient Fundamentals - Understanding non-smoking lung cancer with Dr Tom Newsom-Davis
This episode is hoping to show patients and the public that non-smoking lung cancer is a very real and very different type of lung cancer to smoking lung cancer.We discuss the great work that charities like Ruth Strauss foundation, Ros Wond...
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Episode 24: Patient Fundamentals - Radiotherapy explained with treatment radiographer Amy Warnock
Radiotherapy is one of the silent workhorses of cancer treatment yet has very little coverage in the media.In this episode we talk to Amy Warnock one of our treatment radiographers about what to expect during radiotherapy and she talks thro...
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Episode 23: Patient Fundamentals - Coping with chemotherapy with Rachel Bryce, chemotherapy nurse
Chemotherapy is scary and we want to make it less scary for patients. Simple.We talk to senior chemotherapy nurse Rachel Bryce from University Hospital Plymouth - she is also Macmillan lead systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) lead and U...
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