Co-chaired by Professor Diana Greenfield, Macmillan Consultant Nurse in Late Effects at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Elspeth Banks from Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice, this session included presentations from high profile speakers.
All of this year's speakers contributed expertise from research, clinical or patient perspectives to help enhance understanding of the late effects of cancer treatment, and how best to inform and support patients.
Nick Robinson from the BBC spoke at the session, drawing on his cancer experience to discuss treatment trade-offs from a patient perspective. Due to the impact of treatment for a lung carcinoid on his vocal chords he had to ‘Learn to live with and embrace uncertainty'. Read the full article on our blog.
The NCRI has been working with the James Lind Alliance on a Priority Setting Partnership, bringing together patients, carers and health and social care professionals to understand the most important questions for researchers to answer.
Macmillan proudly partnered in this patient centred approach to determining research priorities, and we intend to focus our next research funding call around them. Further information can be found on the NCRI website and on our blog.
For Macmillan, research impact means the research we fund benefits people affected by cancer by improving treatment and care and empowering people, so it was great to see comments that we are: ‘Creating change’, ‘Changing things for people to improve services and outcomes’ and ‘Supporting better shared decision making’.
Check out our Research Impact Framework for further information.
We worked alongside colleagues from the Macmillan Information and Support Service (MISS) team
Betty the MISS bus was onsite throughout the conference, and our MISS team was on hand to answer delegates’ questions on the medical, financial, emotional and practical support we can offer.
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