Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Cancer MCN

2007 was a busy year for the network and it has been able to progress a significant number of key projects including:

Network-wide case ascertainment exercise undertaken
Hepatocellular Cancer protocol completed and launched in 2007
National Education meeting held on 12 September 2007
New protocol sub-group established for Cholangiocarcinoma
Prospective national audit data collection commenced July 2007
Nurse-led work on disease specific patient information progressed and currently being published.

The Pancreatic and hepatobiliary dataset captures the patient pathway from referral, investigation and treatment. The first six months data will be analysied and reported at an education event in November 2009. The first analysis plans to report on a number of data items including:-

Referral to first treatment
First mode of treatment
Treatment plan curative/palliative
Tumour type numbers
Pathology
Outcomes
Clinical trials

Further information can be found on the external Liver, Pancreas, Gallbladder and Biliary Tree Cancers website. National Services Division are not responsible for the content of any external sites.

Annual Report

The most recent annual report for the Network is available on the:

Scottish HepatoPancreatoBiliary Network website about SHPBN section [external website]

National Services Division contacts:

To contact members of NSD staff, please visit our staff contacts page.

Janice Birrell, Programme Manager
Tracey Curtis, Assistant Programme Manager
Carol Woods, Programme Support Officer