Dr Lucy Dumas is a Medical Oncology Specialist trainee at the Royal Marsden. She has just started research with Dr Susana Banerjee towards an MD degree focusing on the treatment of Gynaecological cancers in older patients. Here she fills us in on what happened at the first ever BGS Oncology Special Interest Group meeting.
@profseanduffy explains that one third of cancer diagnoses now in >75s and half of death #bgsconf #gerionc http://t.co/llNcTY04i7—
BritishGeriatricsSoc (@GeriSoc) September 18, 2015
On Friday the 18th September, the inaugural meeting of an Oncology Special Interest Group, part of the British Geriatrics Society was held at the Wellcome Collection in London. Myself and a small group of other intrepid oncologists and surgeons from around the UK were welcomed into the world of geriatrics, with the common aim of gaining a better understanding of the current status of the growing field of “Geriatric Oncology”; how outcomes for older patients may be improved.