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Simply Oncology
John McGrane & Michael Rowe
Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 104
Welcome to Simply Oncology.
Cancer is daunting for both patients and for clinical teams.
Dr John McGrane and Dr Michael Rowe are oncologists who want to break down the complex parts of cancer care into clear and simple sessions.
We will dive deep into the world of cancer research, patient stories and the latest cancer breakthroughs.
Simply Oncology will have patient focused episodes along with episodes that allow anyone with an interest in oncology to stay up to date.
We hope you join us as we unpick all parts of cancer.
John & Mike
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Episode 75: Discussing Cancer Care in the Transgender Community with Dr Alison Berner
jeudi 6 novembre 2025 • Duration 21:25
As we approach transgender awareness week we discuss cancer care in the transgender community with the exceptional Dr Alison Berner.
1 in 40 people aged under 30 identify as transgender in recent census.
How we give support needed and signpost patients can have a huge influence on their experience of care.
Alison has done so much work in this area.
We learned a lot in this episode and we hope you enjoy!
https://outpatients.org.uk/
https://www.wearetransplus.co.uk/uk-cancer-and-transition-service/
Episode 74 - In the Clinic: Discussing SABR for Oligoprogression in metastatic prostate cancer with Dr Alison Tree.
vendredi 24 octobre 2025 • Duration 30:39
We return to discuss stereotactic radiotherapy (SABR) in prostate cancer with the superb Dr Alison Tree from The Royal Marsden Hospital.
We discuss the findings of the TRAP study which extended time to next treatment by 6 months when SABR was used for sites of growing disease.
Do we always need to change systemic therapy when only one or two sites of metastatic disease is growing??
Episode 65: Post-operative radiotherapy after prostatectomy with Prof Chris Parker
jeudi 28 août 2025 • Duration 31:35
Episode 64: Discussing Early Phase Clinical Trials with Dr Natalie Cook
vendredi 15 août 2025 • Duration 31:19
We discuss Early Phase Clinical Trials with Dr Natalie Cook from the Christie Early Trials Unit.
We learn how molecular profiling is shaping early phase trials and how future trials may be shaped.
Episode 63: Fundamentals - Discussing the importance of Clinical Trials in Oncology With Dr Mohini Varughese
lundi 11 août 2025 • Duration 32:26
Clinical Trials are the Stepping Stones for the progress we have made over the years in the treatment of cancer.
We talk to Dr Mohini Varughese who is heavily involved in clinical trials in urology and passionate about the delivery of clinical trials across oncology.
We discuss:
🎙️Phase 1,2 &3 trials
💊The benefits for patients
💉The benefits for clinical teams
Episode 62: Demystifying the Language of Oncology with Dr Anthony Cunliffe
mercredi 30 juillet 2025 • Duration 24:27
Join us as we return for Part 2 of our conversation with lead medical advisor to MacMillan - Dr Anthony Cunliffe.
Anthony is also a practising GP with ideas on how we can work better together - starting with how we keep our patients and GP teams up to date with our oncology letters.
We talk about Performance status and why it so important to us in oncology and also how we can make life easier for people to understand our letters without extra work.
The oncology letters from clinics are the lifeblood of information for many patients care so we should try and make them as useful as possible.
Episode 61: Fundamentals - Demystifying the Language of Oncology Letters with Dr Anthony Cunliffe
mercredi 30 juillet 2025 • Duration 24:31
How we communicate is so important in all aspects of medicine.
In this special 2 part episode we look at demystifying the Language of Oncology.
Our letters go to GPs and patients and we speak to Dr Anthony Cunliffe who is the medical lead for Macmillan Cancer Support and a practising GP.
If you are GP or acute medic who treats cancer patients or a patient with access to your letters this is a MUST LISTEN.
Also those of us oncologists wanting to make our letters useful for GP teams there is a a LOT to learn!
We try and explain the meaning behind the letters.
He takes us to task about parts of our oncology letters that would be more useful for GPs and patients.
Episode 60: Patient fundamentals - Discussing the principles of radiotherapy with Dr Grant Stewart
mercredi 23 juillet 2025 • Duration 32:06
Join us for an episode looking at the role of radiotherapy in cancer treatment.
We discuss the principles of radiotherapy with Dr Grant Stewart who has 20 years experience with radiotherapy treatments.
This is a great episode for anyone wanting to understand the principles of radiotherapy.
IF you are a patient wanting to understand your treatment or a doctor or nurse wanting to know more about radiotherapy please check this out!
Episode 59: In the Clinic - Discussing the evidence for Renal SABR and its role in renal carcinoma with Dr Harshani Green (part 2)
vendredi 18 juillet 2025 • Duration 23:58
We are back again discussing stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) with Dr Harshani Green from the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Join us if :
- You want to hear about the evidence from the FASTRACK II trial using renal SABR
- You are a centre thinking about setting up renal SABR
- You want to hear about the challenges of comparing renal SABR with surgery
Will radiotherapy be able to replace cytoreductive nephrectomy in metastatic renal carcinoma?
We discuss this and more (plus Mike produces a Magic Lamp!)
Enjoy
Episode 58: In the Clinic - Exploring Renal SABR (Part 1) with Dr Harshani Green
jeudi 10 juillet 2025 • Duration 24:17
Join us for Part 1 of our 2 part Simply Oncology podcast with Dr Harshani Green on Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) in Renal Cell Carcinoma.
We discuss the role of high precision radiotherapy treating renal cell carcinoma in those patients where an operation may not be possible.
- We discuss the excellent control rates
- What size of tumour can we treat?
- Will we ever be able to compare Surgery versus SABR for primary renal cell carcinoma cancers?
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