Registration is now open for the International Mesothelioma Interest Group meeting, iMig 2020, in Brisbane, Australia, 25th-28th March, 2020. The closing date for abstracts is 30th October and can be submitted online. The event will bring together over 500 delegates from … Read More
The results of EORTC’s survey into the impact of the CONVERT trial have been published in Lung Cancer journal. This will be of particular interest to the BTOG members who took part in the survey.
The Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) team at Public Health England has released the final version of the workbook with the following documents: Companion brief detailing the official trust comments on their data Evaluation report describing the feedback received from trusts … Read More
March 2019 By Liz Darlison, Head of Services and Clinical Nurse Specialist for Mesothelioma UK and Professor James Spicer, BTOG Steering Committee Member. An Essential Update on mesothelioma, organised by the British Thoracic Oncology Group and Mesothelioma UK, was held … Read More
We are pleased to announce that Tom Newsom-Davis has been appointed Vice Chair of the BTOG Steering Committee. Tom is a consultant in medical oncology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, where he specialises in thoracic malignancies. He has been … Read More
February 2019 Four first time attendees at BTOG 2019 kindly took the time to write a blog about their experience and thoughts on the conference.
Each year the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) gives a lifetime achievement award to an individual who in the steering committee’s opinion has made a significant contribution to the management of thoracic malignancies in the UK and Ireland. The award … Read More
December 2018 By Sanjay Agrawal, Consultant Respiratory Intensivist As specialists with an interest in thoracic oncology, we want our patients to have the best outcome whether that’s as a result of screening, early diagnosis, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or … Read More
The Second Edition of the IASLC Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology reports on the latest revisions of the tumor, node and metastasis (TNM) classifications of thoracic malignancies, namely, lung cancer, malignant pleural mesothelioma, carcinoma of the esophagus and of the … Read More
BTOG distributed this EORTC survey to our members and the resulting article has just been published: Diversity of brain metastases screening and management in non-small cell lung cancer in Europe: Results of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of … Read More