Vast experience, valuable updates and vibrant networking: share in the knowledge of your countrywide colleagues
Running since 2016, this year’s conference returns face-to-face, connecting professionals from MUO/CUP services across the country. Discover ways to improve your service and pathways for your patients, explore the future plans of like-minded colleagues and find out the answers to your common questions.
Make sure you book before Friday 19th April to benefit from the NHS and Public Sector Early Bird, saving you £100 per place, plus you can also take advantage of a new special offer where if you book 3 places, you can get the 4th for free!
Improving your MUO/CUP Service and Pathways is supported by the World CUP Alliance.
Educational forum packed with relevant, resourceful case study presentations
Would you like to explore your peers’ team set ups? Are you driving forward your MUO/CUP service? If yes, then this NHS forum is for you. Book your place and refocus on:
Why should you attend?
This dedicated training day will arm you with the tools to deliver an effective service:
With thanks to our supporting charity
Opportunities to get involved
| 9:30 |
Registration and networking
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| 10:00 |
Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Dr Sheela Rao, Consultant Medical Oncologist and Lead for Cancer Unknown Primary, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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| International developments | |
| 10:10 |
Exploring the results of the CUPISCO trial
Professor Alwin Kramer, Medical Oncologist, German Cancer Research Center and University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg and Professor Linda Mileshkin, Director Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria Australia
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| 10:35 |
CUP services in the Netherlands: insights, developments and data
Hilde Nienhuis, Medical Oncologist, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
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| 11:00 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 11:10 |
Interactive discussion: Benchmarking your MUO/CUP service set up
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| 11:20 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmarking your MUO/CUP service set up
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| 11:30 |
Networking break
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| Trial updates | |
| 11:50 |
Increasing accessibility to trials for MUO/CUP patients
Dr Harpreet Wasan, Consultant and Reader in Medical Oncology, Department of Cancer Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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| 12:15 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 12:25 |
Interactive discussion: Improving and streamlining your pathways and referrals
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| 12:35 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Improving and streamlining your pathways and referrals
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| 12:45 |
Networking lunch
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| 1:45 |
Charity Showcase: World CUP Alliance set-up, goals and opportunities to collaborate
Warnyta Minnaard and Tanya Knott, Co-Founders, World CUP Alliance
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| Enhancing diagnosis | |
| 1:55 |
Developing and running a diagnostic service for MUO/CUP
Dr David Brooks, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Assistant Chief Clinical Information Officer, Unknown Primary Lead Clinician, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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| Refining pathways from primary care | |
| 2:20 |
How to improve collaboration with primary care and GPs to improve patient experience
Dr Juliette Lewis, Consultant OncoGeriatrician & GIM Physician and Dr Emily Johns, Cancer Lead GP, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, NHS Wales
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| 2:45 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 2:55 |
Interactive discussion: Benchmarking the role of CUP Clinical Nurse Specialists
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| 3:05 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmarking the role of CUP Clinical Nurse Specialists
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| 3:15 |
Networking break
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| 3:35 |
Managing inappropriate referrals to your CUP service
Dr Esme Hill, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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| Collaborating with Rapid Diagnostic Services | |
| 4:00 |
Enhancing non-specific symptom pathways (VAGUE) referrals
Carrie Barton, Non-Specific Symptom Clinical Nurse Specialist, Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
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| 4:25 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 4:35 |
Close of day
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Your confirmed speakers:
Dr Rao is a Consultant Medical Oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers and cancers of unknown primary within the Gastrointestinal Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Dr Rao completed medical training at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and specialist oncology training at The Royal Marsden. She undertook laboratory-based research at The Institute of Cancer Research, supported by an academic grant, examining the prognostic and predictive value of genomic profiling of tumour biopsies in oesophago-gastric cancer.
She is The Royal Marsden's lead for cancers of unknown primary.
Her research interests include clinical trials with novel therapies in GI cancers and she is the principal investigator and Chief investigator on a number of national and international trials with novel agents and immunotherapy.
She serves on the committees for the UK National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Colorectal Cancer and Anal-Rectal Clinical Study Groups and is an active member of the International Rare Cancers Initiative (IRCI). She serves on the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO ) educational faculty for GI Tumours. She sits on a number of national and international trial management groups and data monitoring committees.
Dr Rao is an active contributor to international research through peer review journals and conferences and has given invited lectures globally.
Dr Wasan leads the gastrointestinal clinical research programme at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London. He is on the UK National Cancer Research Institute steering committee of both the advanced colorectal cancer and upper gastrointestinal groups, as well as the inaugural chair of the West London Cancer Network.
Dr Wasan is involved in the Trial management of many CRC studies including one of the largest metastatic colorectal cancer studies in the world (COIN study), and the chief investigator (CI) in its sub-study (COIN-B), as well as a co-investigator on the largest prospective study in chemotherapy in the elderly (FOCUS-2) which reports in 2007. He is also on the European working party on CRC liver metastases guidance.
In upper gastrointestinal cancer Harpreet is Co-PI and PI in the UK NRCN trials portfolio in advanced Biliary cancer and Cancer of unknown primary, with the latter two designed to be the largest studies of their kind in the world. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Oncology advisor to the UK Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) amongst many other national consultative roles.
I am Consultant Geriatrician with a Special Interest in Cancer in Older People. In 2022, I was the first OncoGeriatrician appointed in Wales. I work with both the Acute Oncology Service (including the new Malignancy of Unknown Origin Clinic) and the Rapid Diagnosis Clinic at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Dr Emily Johns MBBCH MRCGP DFSRH graduated from Cardiff University in 2011. Emily is a GP in a large urban practice in Cardiff. She has always been passionate about improving cancer care and outcomes for her patients. Emily was appointed as a Macmillan Palliative Care Facilitator for Primary Care from 2019 to 2022, and has been the Lead GP for Cancer in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board since 2022. In her role she provides clinical leadership and expertise on the development of cancer services across the health board, facilitates communication between primary, secondary and tertiary care and provides education and training to the wider community teams.
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Now in its 8th year and being held face to face for the first time since 2019, this national conference has consistently brought together professionals working across the MUO/CUP pathway. You too will benefit if you work as:
Past attendee feedback
Join us in person in 2024 to elevate your service and learn from like-minded professionals. Our MUO/CUP events have always received excellent feedback, but don’t take our word for it, take a look at how other attendees have described our events:
“Excellent to network with so many people with an interest in MUO/CUP and have this amount of experience in one forum. Very valuable to have such updates and work with others with the same interest to improve pathways together”
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your MUO/CUP Pathways, March 2023
“Wonderful, very collaborative and helpful to meet with others in this very specialist area”
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your MUO/CUP Pathways, March 2023
“It was very informative and really highlighted the complexity of CUP patients and treatments”
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cancer of Unknown Primary: Is the unknown now known, June 2022
“Clear information, good dialogue between participants, up to date information”
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Cancer of Unknown Primary: Is the unknown now known, June 2022
“Very informative background and challenges of CUP MUO service”
Barts Health NHS Trust, Enhancing Referral and Management of MUO/CUP Patients, April 2021
“Very good insight into the various work that is going in towards better diagnosis and better treatment option for CUP/MUO patients”
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, Enhancing Referral and Management of MUO/CUP Patients, April 2021
“Thoroughly enjoyed the day. Stimulated lots of thoughts for my service going forward”
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Streamline your CUP Patient Pathway, December 2019, Birmingham
“It was illuminating to come across like-minded people with shared aims of patient centred care”
Velindre Cancer Centre, Streamline your CUP Patient Pathway, December 2019, Birmingham
“Very informative, up to date implementing of research studies/clinical trials”
Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation, Improving Patient Experience with your MUO-CUP Service, June 2018, Bristol
“Very welcoming atmosphere – approachable speakers knowledgeable and confident in their topics”
Northumbria Healthcare Trust, Improving Patient Experience with your MUO-CUP Service, June 2018, Bristol
“Very informative essential learning for AOS services/MUO services and the acute oncology community”
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Progressing your CUP Service, October 2017, Manchester
“It has been fantastic to hear the people’s experiences as I am a new consultant in AO/CUP in a DGH whose CUP service desperately needs improving & I have been having all the thoughts & ideas discussed today so it has been wonderful to hear others are having the same battles & have found some answers”
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your CUP Service, October 2017, Manchester
“Very valuable in learning how other services run and motivating me for service improvements”
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Developing and Maintaining your Effective MUO/CUP MDT, December 2016
“Highly appropriate and topical subjects, interesting discussions with other CUP professionals”
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Developing and Maintaining your Effective MUO/CUP MDT, December 2016
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