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COVID, Vaccines and Cancer- August 2023
Malcolm Rhodes(National COVID antibody survey charity/supporters team) -Editorial When the first COVID vaccines were tested, they were found to be remarkably effective and were rolled out around the world. However, people with cancer were not included in the trials and it was not clear how effective vaccines would be for them. It was already suspected…
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National Pandemic Prize
DEVON’S CANCER TEAM ARE AWARDED NATIONAL PANDEMIC PRIZE FOR BEBRUARY 2023 Devon’s COV-SPOT team, consisting of Rosie Mew and Caroline Harnett have been awarded a National award by the UK COVID Cancer Programme. It was awarded for their efforts in driving forward understanding of how to safely re-start anti-cancer treatments in cancer patients who have…
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UKCCP PRIZE ALERT!
ROYAL MARSDEN CLINICIANS ARE AWARDED NATIONAL PANDEMIC PRIZE Royal Marsden’s CAPTURE study has been awarded a national award by the UK COVID Cancer Program for their efforts in providing state of the art molecular analyses in order to define risk to cancer patients. Awards were given to Prof.Samra Turajilic, Dr Scott Shepherd and the wider…
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COVID, Vaccines and Cancer 2022 – January 2023 update
Malcolm Rhodes(National COVID antibody survey charity/supporters team) and Thomas Starkey(UK COVID/Cancer Clinical Lead)-Editorial Cancer patients should receive COVID vaccines but may be at more risk from COVID than those without cancer. In addition to vaccines they should also receive: These approaches should to keep them as safe as possible. When the first COVID vaccines were first…
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INAUGURAL PRIZES- NCRI CONSUMER FORUM
“Inaugural prizes to acknowledge cancer pandemic response-NCRI Consumer Forum” The award was a nationally competitive process inviting proposals from across the United Kingdom and led by Leeds academic oncologists Dr James Platt and Dr Justin Liu. Noting the incredible achievement of the NCRI Consumer forum, the UKCCP was delighted in giving the first award to…
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COVID, Vaccines and Cancer 2022
Malcolm Rhodes-Editorial (National COVID antibody survey charity/supporters team) Cancer patients should receive COVID vaccines, but may be at more risk from COVID than those without cancer. In addition to vaccines they should also receive: to keep them as safe as possible. When the first COVID vaccines were first tested, they were found to be remarkably…