The secrets out! What a line up @ #ESTRO24 ! 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 Paul Kelly Erica Bennett Fernando Lopez Campos & Prof. Amit Bahl talking clinical evidence #SpaceOAR 💉 See you there 🥪!

📣 Both Bon Secours Cork Cancer Centre UPMC Ireland & #SLRON have recruited their first patients to the PACE-NODES trial for patients with #ProstateCancer . Congrats to National Lead Paul Kelly, SLRON PI Prof Brian O'Neill & the #RTT teams involved Irish Research Radiation Oncology Group

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This is how one of my patients described chemo cycles and oh my — it is one thing to know the pharmacology and to chart at a safe remove the nadir in blood counts, but it is entirely another to have the embodied experience of actually going through treatment’s ups & downs

Pink #Fullmoon April 23rd 2024,
Pink Moon over Water, 1924 by Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt

BAD SISTERS (Apple+): Kudos to Claes Bang, for playing the most vile and horrible husband ever.

🎭 ‘The past is prologue’.

What makes a Shakespearean actor truly great? Generation-spanning performances from Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Hugh Quarshie, Judi Dench and Patrick Stewart.

Chris Hadfield NASA Vroom vroom! So glad to be back in contact!

How are you all getting on with our current book? You still have time to read it!

Today is the birthday (and death day) of William Shakespeare. This short thread serves as a reflection on the passage of time, love, beauty, mortality and the meaning of life 🧵

1. Dame Judi Dench, Sonnet 29

The incompleteness of life and the fragility of the world means that hope is essential

#health #OrganDonation

Suzanne Crowe: Organ donation can offer fresh hope to families in their darkest hour of despair
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Such an important issue for women who need pelvic radiation - delighted to see this!

For decades women undergoing radiotherapy for cervical, colorectal & vaginal cancer in 🇮🇪 were given plastic dilators. They are not inviting to use and can add/lead to a sexual dysfunction. This upset me, I acted. As of 2024 thanks to Donal Brennan NCCP silicone dilators for all

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Get yer kids vaccinated! I endured the heartache of working in 2 children’s hospitals in measles-endemic regions and I just spent hours of each day managing some of the sickest kids I’ve ever seen. It’s a brutal disease, but easily preventable

My latest New Scientist cartoon.
#science #discoveries

🇺🇦 Ukrainian llustrator Olga Shtonda #WomensArt

“We don’t want to see machines lying idle because there are not enough staff, ” Ruth Woods, Irish Institute of Radiographers and Radiation Therapists tells Bryan Dobson as 4 machines that deliver radiotherapy remain closed- 2 in Dublin, one in Cork and one in Galway.

As Irish Medical Times reported in March, the crisis is leaving machines unstaffed and patients waiting longer for treatment #radiotherapy #radiationtherapists imt.ie/news/radiother…

Many healthcare staff among those affected by #LongCovid

Some staff exposed to high viral loads before reliable supply of PPE or vaccine was available, in service to others

Predominantly women - as healthcare is mostly delivered by women

#HealthcareIsPeople

My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian Books / Guardian Saturday