By BOPA Research Committee on 8th November 2024

Healthcare Professional’s Experiences & Perceptions of Switching Brands of oral SACT – Survey

Dear BOPA members In cancer care, little is known about the impact of specific brands of oral SACT medication or how healthcare professionals respond and process brand switches of oral…

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By BOPA Passport pillar on 6th November 2024

Request for membership to create or review content for BOPA Digital SACT passport (Update)

Dear Member, Regarding the earlier communication for registering to become a creator/reviewer of mock prescriptions: This process has been amended and creation/review is open to free associates and above, as…

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By Netty Cracknell on 6th November 2024

Independent Sector Cancer Network (ISCN) Publish NEW Cancer Service Guidelines

The Independent Sector Cancer Network (ISCN) is a strategic quality governance and safety group which aims to improve independard sector cancer provision though effective collaboration and sharing of best practice across the…

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By Joseph Williams on 6th November 2024

Hospital practices concerning the in-use storage time of (reconstituted) oncology medicines

Dear BOPA Members, The EDQM (the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines&Healthcare of the Council of Europe) is conducting a survey following a study from national monitoring activities, which…

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By Joseph Williams on 5th November 2024

New Publication by BOPA Member and AI Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) Co-Chair Pinkie Chambers

From prediction to practice: mitigating bias and data shift in machine-learning models for chemotherapy-induced organ dysfunction across unseen cancers New Publication by BOPA Member and AI Specialist Advisory Group (SAG)…

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By BOPA Executive Committee on 4th November 2024

CRUK Consent Form Updates – MPN and Nivolumab with Relatlimab for melanoma

Dear All, I am happy to inform you that the MPN consent forms have been reviewed and updated. Furthermore, a new consent form has been added  form for Nivolumab with…

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By BOPA Committee on 4th November 2024

BOPA Podcast – Let’s Talk About Acute Oncology

The next episode of Let’s Talk About SACT is Let’s talk about Acute Oncology. In this episode we are joined by Caroline Wilson and Alison Taylor. We discuss what acute…

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By BOPA Passport pillar on 28th October 2024

Request for membership to create or review content for BOPA Digital SACT passport

Dear Member, It has been 12 months since the launch of the “BOPA SACT Verification Passport”. In order to optimise user experience of the Passport, we need to have new…

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By BOPA Research Committee on 28th October 2024

Hypercalcaemia of malignancy survey

Dear colleagues, Hypercalcaemia of malignancy is the commonest metabolic complication in cancer patients and there is a lack of evidence in this area, leading to potential variation in clinical practice.…

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By BOPA Committee on 28th October 2024

BOPA Proposed Vision – Feedback reminder

Dear Members The revised BOPA vision was presented during the AGM at the 2024 BOPA conference in Birmingham. (The AGM slides can be found here) The revised vision is a…

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By BOPA Passport Pillar on 22nd October 2024

Reminder of BOPA SACT Verification Passport Grandparenting Deadline

Dear member,   As of the beginning of this month, we have 139 registered sites and 1,600 users subscribed to the SACT verification passport. This is a fabulous uptake and…

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By BOPA IO SAG on 21st October 2024

BOPA Immunotherapy Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) – Abstract Accepted to ESMO IO 2024

A message from the BOPA Immunotherapy SAG: It brings us great pleasure to inform you that the Research & Analysis pillar of the BOPA Immunotherapy SAG has successfully submitted abstract…

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