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16 June 2021

ESCP is investigating the variety in wound closure techniques and surgical site infection preventive strategies. We hope to gather as many individual responses as possible and would be grateful if you could complete the survey. 

16 June 2021

The Time To Act campaign, which aims to tackle the stalling of cancer treatment during the pandemic, was launched in May. Professor Antonino Spinelli, ESCP General Secretary, took part in the campaign event and is interviewed here by Nagendra Dudi-Venkata and Yongbo An from ESCP's SoMe Subcommittee.

14 June 2021

Cristián Gallardo interviews Soo Young Lee from Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital in Korea in the run-up to ESCP's next Global Reach webinar 'Myths and Evidence in Diverticular Disease'.

10 June 2021

June’s paper of the month looks at the PRODIGE-23 trial, a randomised phase 3 clinical trial which sought to determine whether total neoadjuvant chemotherapy (TNT) before surgery improved disease-free survival (DFS) compared with standard preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.

7 June 2021

Vittoria Bellato interviews Mr Shahnawaz Rasheed, Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Marsden, London, about his experience of  robotic-assisted pelvic exenteration.