Congrats to PREDICT-Meso Member Geri Lynch & the ASSESS-Meso team on their paper in Lung Cancer- Serum mesothelin as a response biomarker in pleural mesothelioma
Highlight: serial serum mesothelin is a reliable response biomarker in PM. Click to read more:
www.lungcancerjournal.info/article/S016...

BTOG is excited to call for Trainee Representatives from the Oncology and Respiratory specialities to apply to the BTOG Steering Committee. #LCSM
Full details: www.btog.org/call-for-tra...

Integrated stop smoking interventions are essential to maximise the health benefits from lung cancer screening
thorax.bmj.com/content/79/3... @ncsct.bsky.social @btog.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

We really need to make sure people know this!! It’s never too late to quit smoking. Treating tobacco dependence is cancer treatment! We would not let this survival benefit pass us by of this was a new oncology drug. #BTOG25

So proud of our fellows Geri, Jodie and Adele for presenting their posters at #BTOG25, spanning attitudes to screening, the value of the SRM and ki67 as a prognostic discriminator in mesothelioma. Special praise to Lucy our IMT who won a rosette for her abstract reporting false + and - in screening.

Using Ki67 (30% cut off) defines two very different survival groups in high grade mesothelioma

Better than using nuclear grade

Readily available test
Maybe we should be doing this for all patients?

Belgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapes

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New paper (out today) + potential thread of interest for those interested in pleural #Mesothelioma 🫁 ⬆️

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Invitation: If you are a UK-based researcher, or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Now open until 12.1.25:

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

BTOG is delighted to present an on-site professional childcare service at #BTOG25, acknowledging the requirements of our conference delegates who may be accompanied by their young children.

Details on the website

www.btog.org/23rd-btog-an...

Our next speaker will give a retrospective case notes review: multiple unmet palliative care needs in pleural mesothelioma
@donnawakefield.bsky.social #mesoupdate24 #LCSM #lungcancer #mesothelioma

Kevin Blyth: management of mesothelioma effusion

🔹IPC vs pleurodesis = equivalent efficacy

For pleurodesis:
🔹 Talc = most effective agent
🔹 Big drain no better than smaller ones
🔹 NSAIDs fine for analgesia (won’t limit pleurodesis)
🔹 Talc slurry as good as poudrage

Inspired by all the @bsky.app handles at #BTSWinter2024 (thank you @btsrespiratory.bsky.social) we've made the switch. Feeling a bit like the new kid at school! Please follow, recommend your fave follows and point us in the direction of good science! #RespIsBest #UniOfBristol