NHS cancer services and systems-ten pressure points a UK cancer control plan needs to address.

In this Policy Review we discuss ten key pressure points in the NHS in the delivery of cancer care services that need to be urgently addressed by a comprehensive national cancer control plan. These pressure points cover areas such as increasing workforce capacity and its productivity, delivering effective cancer survivorship services, addressing variation in quality, fixing the reimbursement system for cancer care, and balancing of the cancer research agenda. These areas have been selected based on their relative importance to ensuring sustainable cancer services, persistence as key issues in the NHS, and their impact on delivering better and more equitable and affordable patient outcomes.

The future of cancer care in the UK-time for a radical and sustainable National Cancer Plan.

Cancer affects one in two people in the UK and the incidence is set to increase. The UK National Health Service is facing major workforce deficits and cancer services have struggled to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, with waiting times for cancer care becoming the worst on record. There are severe and widening disparities across the country and survival rates remain unacceptably poor for many cancers.

Biphenotypic Sinonasal Sarcoma: Case Reports of Diagnostic Findings and Clinical Management of 3 Cases.

Background: Biphenotypic sinonasal sarcoma (BSNS) is a rare spindle cell sarcoma distinctly arising in the sinonasal area, with dual myogenic and neural differentiation, and characterised by the presence of PAX3 gene fusion, typically with MAML3. Although the majority may be indolent, up to 25% of cases reported in the literature are locally aggressive, with invasion of adjacent critical structures in the head and neck region.

Case Report: We report 3 cases of BSNS reviewed at our institution between 2016-2020 in addition to the current literature.

Development and dissemination of structured hashtags for radiation oncology: Two-Year trends.

Purpose: For radiation oncology, social media is a favored communication platform, but it uses non-structured hashtags, which limits communication. In this work, we created a set of structured hashtags with key opinion leaders in radiation oncology, and we report on their use after two years post-deployment.

Materials/methods: Hashtags were created, voted on, and refined by crowdsourcing 38 international experts, including physicians, physicists, patients, and organizations from North America, Europe, and Australia.