Congratulations to Shirley Potter, 🇮🇪 CI and PI at Mater Hospital Advanced Cancer Care and Marlese Dempsey, PI at Trinity St James's Cancer Institute on recruiting the first six patients to the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials (MASC Trials) MelMarT-II study 👏 St James's Hospital Melanoma Support Ireland 🖤 MaterSurgery

📢 The final pt was just recruited to the Preserve Trial!! BC Cancer ➡️A hugely successful #HNC trial for all our 🇮🇪 Rad Onc Centres!!! CancerTrialsIreland 🌈 ➡️SLRON=Top global accruer!!!! 🤩🤩 Brilliant collaboration with our 🇨🇦 colleagues HealthResearchBoard Dr. David Palma Prof Sinead Brennan

There is also an urgent need to consider the clinical academic workforce crisis No clinical academics▶️no research▶️ no improvement in outcome for patients with cancer National Institute for Health and Care Research NHS England The Royal College of Radiologists Royal College of Physicians

Thanks to Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group patients early stage with breast cancer have been able to access this clinical trial at IRROG radiation therapy sites #SLRON Dublin, Galway and Cork

📢 The PRESERVE #RadOnc trial closed to accrual last week, with the study exceeding accrual targets. This trial was hugely successful in 🇮🇪, with 39 patients, and SLRON was the top accruer globally! 👏 Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group BC Cancer Dr. David Palma Prof Sinead Brennan #HeadAndNeckCancer

Come and work in Dublin - at one of Europes largest radiation oncology departments: 2 exciting locum consultant radiation oncology posts. ⁦⁦ESTRO⁩ ⁦ASTRO⁩ ⁦NCCP⁩ ⁦HSE Ireland⁩ ⁦Dublin Midlands Hospital Group⁩ ⁦RCSI⁩ hse.ie/eng/staff/jobs…

A gentle video explainer for potential participants and #PPI on #TrialsMethodology in #clinicaltrials created with PPI Ignite Network @ University of Galway Declan Devane MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership HRB-TMRN Centre For Health Policy and Management . The full video can be viewed here: buff.ly/3WoXju3

Pleased to announce a major expansion of healthcare college places in Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. This will contribute to delivering expansion in the region of up to 40% in college places in these vital disciplines over the next 2 years.

Fantastic news

The OPEN Trial: IIT RCT of Open Face Masks + SGRT #headandneckcancer ➡️More than 💯 patients accrued since Jan! 😲🎆🎉 ➡️ If we design inclusive IITs + give pts the chance to engage: accruals in 🇮🇪 rad onc trials will soar! 📈 Prof Sinead Brennan CancerTrialsIreland 🌈 Sam Ryan

Single sign on, even when it works, is not a solution to the absence of a functional Electronic Healthcare Record. Each day, I continuously log in to (and am automatically logged out of) multiple (~8) systems I need to access to gather the information required to do my job.

Irish Cancer Society funded #research by Amara Naseer, Prof Sinead Brennan and Michelle Leech together with colleagues from Trinity St James's Cancer Institute DublinDentalHospital and UCC Ireland on management of osteoradionecrosis. Thanks to Julie McCrossin AM (She/Her) for inspiring the topic #survivorship onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…

👏 Congrats to saoltagroup University Hospital Galway and PI Dr Joseph Martin on opening the E²-RADIatE trial. The EORTC-sponsored study is already open in 🇮🇪 at #SLRON with NLI Fran Duane and at BeaconCTRU with PI Prof Alina Mihai. Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group #RT #CancerResearch

Kicking off #WCLC with something a little different at the session on model based design and #Bayesian approaches in #clinicaltrials design. Great opening session on Bayes Theorem and why Bayesian design is superior.

So here for this! ⁦Great to have ⁦Gerry Hanna⁩ 's leadership driving radiation research forward in Ireland 🇮🇪 #IrishSRSsymposium #RadOnc ⁦RadiationTherapyTCD⁩

Highlighting the phenomenonal skills of the research #RTT on radiotherapy clinical trials #irishSRSsymposium. Advance practice role is win win for patients and staff alike. ⁦👏 ⁦Karen Molan⁩ and Roisin Conaty ⁦Bon Secours Cork Cancer Centre⁩ #Beacon Hospital ⁦NCCP⁩

A passionate presentation from our own Karen Molan and the Beacon Hospital Dublin's Roisin Conaty advocating for radiotherapy clinical trials and the advanced role of the #RTT needed to drive these trials on the ground

Prof Sinead Brennan highlighting the growing success story that is Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group increasing access to radiotherapy clinical trials across the whole island HealthResearchBoard. The message from Prof Sinead Brennan is:' there is a trial idea in everyone' irrespective of discipline

Next up in the clinical trials section of of the Irish SRS/SABR Symposium is Prof Prof Sinead Brennan ➡️ Outlines how central Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group has been in developing #RadOnc clinical trial offering to Irish Patients with cancer #SABR2024

Great duo of a presentation by Advanced Practice Research Radiation Therapists Roisin Conaty from Beacon and Karen Molan from UMPC ➡️ absolutely essential roles for the delivery of #RadOnc trials ➡️ advanced practice roles are essential across #RadOnc #SABR