Robert Elkington 
PPG Awareness Week is an annual initiative aimed at raising awareness about the importance of Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) in healthcare. The event seeks to educate patients, the general public, and healthcare professionals about the role and benefits of PPGs, highlighting the value of true patient participation. Additionally, the week-long campaign aims to promote the … Read more
The Leeds Cancer Research Centre will be delivering a mini-conference as part of World Cancer Day on the 3 rd February (World Cancer Day is actually on 4th Feb). OncoEng is very supportive of the Leeds Cancer Research Centre bringing together the diverse range of activities within Leeds that encompass engineering, physical scientists, biologists as … Read more
Great OncoEng Quarterly get together last week. The Management Board Meeting in the morning was eagerly attended by all the researchers and academics. In the afternoon we were joined by Dr Sherron Furtado, Craig Gerrand, Sarah Astill and David Lunn to discuss promising synergies between the work at RNOH and that undertaken within OncoEng. Two exciting outcomes from the conversations were to … Read more
A £7 million research project has been launched to develop a new imaging and keyhole surgery approach to the treatment for secondary bone tumours of the spine. Known as metastatic bone disease, the tumours spread from a primary cancer located elsewhere in the body. The condition is particularly associated with breast cancer. The bone tumours cause vertebrae to … Read more