Thank you BBC Breakfast for inviting us onto the sofa to share Trevor and Judy’s contrasting experiences of rectal cancer treatment and discuss how the Cancer Research UK STAR-TREC trial will determine whether radiotherapy can replace surgery. University of Leeds Uni of Birmingham Simon P Bach

Well done & Thank you for all your hard work on our ACT 3,4,5 👏 We now have just 1⃣0⃣ participants to go to meet our recruitment target! 🎉 Keep going Teams! Leeds CTRU Cancer Research UK David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

🥳Congratulations to @LeedsRTResearch for recruiting a participant into the ACT3 arm of the ACT 3,4,5 in July! 💞👏 Leeds CTRU Cancer Research UK David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

Thanks to all of your hard work, we recruited 9 pts into ACT5 for July!🌟Our top recruiters were James Cook & Castle Hill = 2 pts each!🏆 Well done to Bristol, Northampton, University Hospital Southampton 💙, Derriford Hospital & Mount Vernon also for recruiting 1 pt each this month! 🥳Look how close we are!😲

Congratulations to all ACT 3,4,5 sites who have successfully recruited into ACT3! With your support we recruited 83 participants🥳👏 A huge milestone to reach in such a rare cancer! Your time and efforts are truly appreciated, thank you! 💞 Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer Leeds CTRU David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

Huge congratulations to all ACT 3,4,5 sites across the UK - we have now recruited 463 pts to ACT5! 🌟 A brilliant multi-disciplinary team effort successfully recruiting over target in a rare cancer! Thank you so much for your support!🥳💞 Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer Leeds CTRU David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

The Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer funded ACT 3,4,5 anal cancer platform has hit its recruitment targets! We have recruited 709 patients across the ACT 3,4,5 trials in a rare cancer - thank you to our amazing 40 sites across the UK and the patients who have taken part! Leeds CTRU David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

1/4 Fantastic news that the Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer funded ACT 3,4,5 anal cancer platform has completed recruitment of 709 patients - a huge thank you to our 40 sites, the trial team and our patients 👏👏👏 Leeds CTRU Leeds Cancer Research Centre University of Leeds Leeds Teaching Hospitals #CancerResearch

Here is my brilliant dad David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙 at StandUp2C Sometimes I think I'm the cool one in the family. Other times he is on TV saving lives & hanging out with Joe Lycett Munya Chawawa Davina McCall Adam Hills

Great work Niamh McKigney for being shortlisted for 2️⃣ prize 🏆 sessions BASO~The Association for Cancer Surgery & for showcasing work on locally recurrent rectal cancer #QoL #PhD Great to catch up with derek manas Jim Khan John Marks & many others.

Brilliant to meet up with Mererid Evans at the Channel 4 Stand Up To Cancer event The Crick to fly the flag for radiotherapy and help raise vital funds for cancer research. Our clinical trials @PATHOS ACT 3,4,5 and STAR TREC are only possible with your support - thank you 😊

Our Leeds Radiotherapy Research 💙 The Christie NHS FDG PET-CT based outcome prediction model paper led by Russell Frood is out open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.100… turns out a simpler model is more generalisable than a more complex radiomics model Ane Appelt Joe Mercer rohit kochhar

Our proton beam therapy open day will give you a chance to take a look at the ground-breaking facility here at #TheChristie. 📅 Saturday 25 Nov 🕙 Tours every 15 minutes (10am -11.30am) Everyone is welcome, so please feel free to pop by for a tour and a chat with the team.👇

Happy world radiography day to all the therapeutic radiographers here at the Rosemere Cancer Centre and all the therapeutic and diagnostic radiographers across the country! #HealthcareHeroes SCoR Members

Fantastic to celebrate completion of recruitment into the ⁦Cancer Research UK⁩ ⁦Stand Up To Cancer UK⁩ ⁦ACT 3,4,5⁩. A huge thank you to our brilliant ⁦Leeds CTRU⁩ team- it has only been possible through your hard work and outstanding support! 🎉🍾 ⁦⁦University of Leeds⁩

Many congratulations to Duncan Gilbert on the award of the poster prize at #IMACC23 for circulating markers of disease in locally advanced anal cancer patients treated within the Stand Up To Cancer Cancer Research UK @PLATO trial! - excellent news and very well deserved!

I was so pleased to be invited by Sociedad Chilena de Radioterapia Oncológica to speak at their biannual meeting in San Pedro de Atacama - and it has not disappointed so far 😊 Great colleagues & discussions, delicious food, and a lovely venue #radonc #medphys

Great news story from ESNEFT Research and a PLATO patient who has shared her experience of anal cancer to help others. Thank you for highlighting the importance of cancer research. We are so grateful to all patients who have participated in the trial. Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer UK Leeds CTRU

We are delighted to share another story from this PLATO patient via a BBC interview. 👉bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Leeds CTRU Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙

Just out in JNCI: innovative clinical trial design to test multiple radiotherapy research questions using master protocols including Cancer Research UK funded Leeds-led exemplars: the ACT 3,4,5 and CONCORDE CONCORDE Trial trials Leeds CTRU CRUK Radnet Leeds Centre University of Leeds Leeds Teaching Hospitals