Free webinars Cancer of Unknown Primary
Fri 23 Sep 2022
On-demand

On-demand: featuring presentation and speaker Q&A: Alison Taylor and Professor Penelope Schofield will discuss how patients and carers living with CUP deal with uncertainty and other issues. Part of the World CUP Awareness Week, this webinar is specifically created to share the latest updates with both clinicians and patients, including oncologists, pathologists, nurses and researchers, plus patients, their families and patient advocates. 

World Cup Awareness Week is supported by Missie Tumor Onbekend and Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation. 

Also available on-demand:

Dealing with the uncertainty of the Cancer of Unknown Primary Diagnosis
On-demand 1 hour CPD Free
Missie Tumor Onbekend Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation

Watch this online international event from the comfort of your own home

Offering an insight into the psycho-oncology field in regards to the diagnosis of cancer of unknown primary

  • 40 minutes of unique and insightful presentation time with Alison Taylor and Professor Penelope Schofield Mitchell
  • Share best practices in psychology and behavioral research
  • Your questions answered during the 20 minute Q&A and discussion with other attendees during the live webinar, using the chat box function
  • Or you can catch up with the webinar content at any time after it takes place

Supporting patients that face and live with an uncertain and complicated diagnosis like CUP

1 hour video | Filmed on Friday 23rd September 2022 | featuring:

Introduction and instructions
Tanya Knott, Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation
Dealing with the uncertainty of the Cancer of Unknown Primary Diagnosis
  • Offering psycho-oncology field insights into the diagnosis of cancer of unknown primary
  • Supporting patients that face and live with an uncertain and complicated diagnosis like CUP
  • Identifying what best practices in psychology and behavioral research exist to support patients and their carers
Presented by: Alison Taylor, Nurse Consultant Acute Oncology and Cancer of Unknown Primary lead, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Professor Penelope Schofield
Questions and answers with the speakers
  • Your presenters will use this time to answer your questions asked throughout the presentation plus any discussion points raised
Led by: Alison Taylor
Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation

Your expert speakers

Part of the World CUP Awareness Week: sharing valuable and educational longterm views from:

Alison Taylor
Job Title:
Nurse Consultant Acute Oncology and Cancer of Unknown Primary lead
Organisation
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Alison Taylor is a Nurse consultant at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC),  where she is the lead for acute oncology and cancer of unknown primary. Alison trained at the University of Liverpool (UoL) and specialised in cancer care. She has had a variety of roles cancer care role over her 20 year career. Her most recent roles include the acute oncology and cancer of unknown primary (CUP) clinical nurse specialist, at the Countess Of Chester hospital, where she also seconded as the clinical expert and module leader for the UoL online acute oncology course. She completed her Florence Nightingale Foundation emerging leaders scholarship in 2020, highlights included The Windsor leadership course, attendance at Westminster for the opening event for 2020 year of the Nurse and Midwife. Alison is passionate about leading cancer care and moved back to CCC in 2020 as a nurse consultant where she had a vision to continue to raise awareness of CUP and provide equity of services for patients with CUP. She led on the development of optimal pathways for malignancy of unknown origin and reformed the CUP service for Cheshire and Merseyside. She is also the associate principle investigate for the CUP COMP genomic trial at CCC.
Professor Penelope Schofield
Job Title:
Organisation
Biography

Supporting NHS professionals with free, practical content

SBK Healthcare has produced many useful webinars to help and support NHS healthcare professionals in their work. These webinars can be viewed free and on-demand, and include:

  • Enhancing Referral and Management of MUO/CUP Patients
  • Cancer of Unknown Primary: Is the unknown now known?
  • Building Psychological Resilience Skills for NHS Professionals
  • Compassionate Leadership Skills for NHS Frontline Staff
  • Handling and Responding to Difficult Conversations
  • Compassionate Leadership Skills for NHS Frontline Staff
  • Managing Anxiety at Work for NHS Frontline Staff
  • Managing Conflict on the NHS Frontline
Missie Tumor Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation

More about the World CUP Awareness Week

Sarah Jennifer Knott Foundation (Ireland) and Missie Tumor Onbekend (Netherlands), two national patient organisations dedicated to improving quality of care and life by providing information and support for patients with Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP), have joined forces to present the World Cup Awareness Week. The theme for 2022 is ‘The patient journey’ with the aim of identifying the challenges and opportunities for Cancer of Unknown Primary patients, families healthcare professionals and researchers.