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This week I am celebrating being at Birmingham for a year! Amazing progress as we have launched two trials first in Europe! My main aim for the 2nd year is to get patients with pancreas and biliary cancer from their CT to first cycle of treatment having a pathway of 6 weeks!!
Delighted to be starting as an associate professor today @unibirmingham and honorary consultant in HPB medical oncology @uhbtrust @UHBCancer. Continuing to build an exciting translational programme in pancreatic cancer and translational immuno-oncology
Vault March v0.1 (Beta March) is now open to play.
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Vault March v0.1 (Beta March) is now open to play.
Early phase badge farmers will receive boosted in game XP and Vault rewards.
Beta Ends Aug, 16th 12:00AM UTC, Play Now ⤵️ tinyurl.com/3nfxewvz
Shivan Sivakumar retweeted
Rest in peace Sydney Towles, who embodied the idea of living with and not dying from cancer. May her memory be a blessing. nytimes.com/2026/08/06/style…
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Shivan Sivakumar retweeted
Regarding Royal Rumble 2027, WWE reportedly gave serious consideration to expanding the event into a two-night format.
However, as things currently stand, the expectation within the company is that Royal Rumble 2027 will remain a one-night event, potentially for the final time.
There is significant interest within WWE in eventually turning the Royal Rumble into a multi-night destination event.
(@WrestleVotes on @FightfulSelect)
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عاجل و بحسب SelfMadePW، المسؤولين في WWE لم يعجبهم أداء سول روكا في الحلبة منذ تصعيدها وهناك من طالب إيقاف دفعتها
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Rhea Ripley bit the bullet and underwent surgery to repair her torn meniscus. She's now on the road to recovery, and hopefully we'll see her back in WWE sooner rather than later.
I'm not sure exactly how much this changes her timeline, but I'd be surprised if she's back before the Royal Rumble. Honestly, I think she made the right decision. There's no reason to gamble with a knee injury that serious. Get the surgery, recover properly, and come back at 100%.
Wishing Rhea a smooth recovery.
Shivan Sivakumar retweeted
The reason Brock Lesnar wore elbow pads wasn't for his safety it's actually for his opponent's safety.
Hitting a Tombstone without elbow pads can cause serious neck injuries and other serious problems because of less grip strength .
Wearing elbow pads gives you extra grip strength to hold your opponent and execute the move properly.
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Today's breakthrough in context:
Finally, best news of the morning (and something you didn't expect so soon)...
Revolution Medicines $RVMD daraxonrasib Ph3 results in second-line pancreatic cancer.
Median overall survival in ITT patients (KRAS mutants + wild type combined) Dara 13.2 months vs chemo 6.7 months.
OS Hazard ratio 0.40
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Happy to report the first clinical evidence revealing how tumors develop resistance to p53-Y220C reactivators out today @CD_AACR @MassGenBrigham @harvardmed #CorcoranLab #Rezatapopt #p53Y220C #PYNNACLE
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Half of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up.
Yet the NHS is poaching foreign doctors. One in six of Nigeria's are now in the UK.
The real scandal isn't pay: it's a broken training pipeline. My column:-
times-comment.com/nhs
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Entering this house of Titans 🏛️✨
Kontzerhouse Berlin
An incredible night at the Presidential Dinner with Pancreas Team, Phase I leads and future Scientific Committee co-chairs.
Grateful to share space with brilliant minds shaping oncology’s future.
#ESMO25 #TeamScience
100% true
The bottom line with all NHS staff, not just doctors, is that unless you make the NHS a decent place to work, with a decent enough salary to be able to pay off your debts and afford to buy a house near where you work, or at least know where you’re going to be working in the next six months, then people will either leave the NHS or pursue a portfolio career. I combined medicine, journalism, broadcasting, teaching and comedy for 35 years. I think I paid back the debt for my training, but I never felt obliged to work full-time in the NHS.
Resident doctors have every reason to be angry, with the growth of non-doctors taking over their work, with a significant risk to patient safety, and the lack of specialty training places for them to pursue in the NHS. And there are many newly qualified GPs who can’t get work. This is all far more complicated than just restoring pay. And medical leaders are as much to blame as successive governments. The medical professional also has to sort its own shit out.