Navigating mCRC: Empowering Nurses for Colorectal Cancer Care - Part 2

Stivarga® (regorafenib) Prescribing Information

Stivarga® (regorafenib) Prescribing Information

Stivarga® (regorafenib) Prescribing Information

Dr Aspasia Soultati is a consultant medical oncologist in East Sussex.
 

She is an expert in numerous types of cancer, including genitourinary cancers (kidney cancer, bladder cancer and prostate cancer), and is also highly specialised in lower GI (gastrointestinal) cancers, such as colorectal cancer. In fact, Dr Soultati's expertise has led her to become the oncology lead for the cancer unit at Eastbourne District General and Conquest Hospitals, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

Patients can access her private healthcare services at Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, which also covers the areas of Eastbourne and Conquest Hospitals. In both private and public care settings, she provides a variety of treatments, including chemotherapy, target therapy and immunotherapy. She also collaborates with Healthcare at Home to offer chemotherapy at home.

Dr Soultati underwent extensive specialist training in Athens, Greece, which is where she also earned her PhD. Following this, she relocated to the UK to continue her training at the well known Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Additionally, she pursued postdoctoral translational research in renal cancers with a team of world-renowned scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, also in London. She is an avid researcher and has made numerous contributions to cancer research.

She makes every effort to transform the experience of patients with cancer across Sussex by providing professional and personalised care, and by encouraging research investigations to improve patient outcomes in oncology.

Dr Tony Dhillon is consultant medical oncologist specialising in colon cancer at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford. 

He is the chief investigator of 2 major colon cancer clinical trials.

Ms Louise Panes’ oncology nursing experience spans 15 years and is extensive. It includes; working on the oncology and haematology day unit administering systemic anti-cancer therapy and supportive treatments, through to working in a newly established acute oncology service as acute oncology and cancer of unknown primary clinical nurse specialist.

She has been in her current role as a colorectal clinical nurse specialist (CNS) for nearly 8 years. Throughout this time the CNS role has evolved considerably and she is now undertaking a much more autonomous role, utilising her advanced practice skills.

Ms Panes has initiated service changes including the implementation of nurse led oncology clinics for the colorectal patients; these include a pre chemotherapy education clinic and a pre chemotherapy assessment and prescribing clinic.

Education is fundamental to advanced practice and Ms Panes continually looks to broaden her level of professional development. Last year she was successfully appointed onto the nurse advisory board for the National Colorectal Cancer Nurses Network, which reviews regional and national policies and develops education provision at a national level.

Ms Panes has presented regionally and locally on the service provision of developing a nurse led chemotherapy service, discussing the challenges faced, complexities and collaborative working. She also presented this work at the South West Non-Medical Prescribing conference last year.

Victoria Nelson is a lecturing practitioner dietitian at The Royal Marsden School. Ms Nelson specialises in colorectal cancer and living with and beyond cancer. She has published papers on healthy eating advice following colorectal cancer treatment and currently is looking at this in those who have had an intestinal stoma formation.

Ms Nelson is involved in national guideline reviews and sits on several committees including the British Dietetic Association Oncology Specialist Group and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Barrett’s Oesophagus Guidelines Committee.