Patrick Goodley

At our #BTOG26 Annual Conference last week, we presented our inaugural BTOG Awards for persons who have made a real difference to the care, treatment, or research for patients with thoracic malignancies. Nominated by you and selected by our Steering Committee, we had 3 categories: BTOG 2026 Nurse of the Year Award: Sandra Wakelin BTOG 2026 Doctor of the Year Award: Kanwal Tariq BTOG 2026 Young Researcher of the Year Award: Patrick Goodley Congratulations to our winners!

Interested in a career as a physician in thoracic oncology? mft.nhs.uk/careers/search…

Exciting opportunity to join our team at Wythenshawe as a post-CCT or peri-CCT fellow in lung cancer & pleural medicine! mft.nhs.uk/careers/search…

1. What would it take to convince healthcare leaders & policy makers that smoking cessation should be funded and delivered within lung cancer screening programmes? thorax.bmj.com/content/early/…

👆FYI @BTOGORG @IASLC @BTSrespiratory @ThoraxBMJ @bmj_latest @EuroRespSoc @atscommunity @AmLungCSI @lung_ca_screen @lungradiologist @LungConsultant @UnderwaterDoc @PatrickNRedmond @danennis100 #LCSM

Huge programme delivered by @LungCheck, @MFTnhs, @NHSEngland, Richard Booton, @drasharman, @hsbalata... too many to mention Innovative study design shaped by @MatthewSperrin, Phil Crosbie @FBMH_UoM, Hilary Robbins @IARCWHO Grateful to my PhD funders, NW Lung Centre Charity

🗞️Big results from Manchester #lungcancer #screening 🫁 It's difficult to measure how much real impact a programme has on the whole population, but we had the opportunity to study this in a region where screening has been offered since 2019 @JTOonline jto.org/article/S1556-…

1. Prehabilitation for patients with #lungcabcer Everyday we the beneficial impact prehabilitation has for patients with lung cancer preparing for treatment, delivered by the brilliant prehab4cancer team in Greater Manchester led by Jack Murphy

#WCLC25 recap: @patrick_goodley presented new data on a survival benefit in screening older, surgically fit adults up to age 80. Read more: bit.ly/471aKqR #lungcancer #screening

Brilliant to see this published 😊 Many years of work from so many people to deliver this regional One- stop lung cancer clinic for treatment decisions & optimisation delivering faster pathways & better outcomes. 👏 to all involved @GM_Cancer @MFTnhs @WythenshaweHosp

Glad to share our article about the One-Stop Lung Cancer Clinic based at Manchester for resectable, early-stage lung cancer patients who face delayed, complex pathways to make a treatment decision resulting in negative outcomes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🆕📜Editorial containing some thoughts on the increasingly complex proliferation of #lungcancer #screening #riskprediction models @ThoraxBMJ 🔓thorax.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/t… Based on impressive Zhang review of existing validation studies 🧮⚖️ thorax.bmj.com/content/early/… #LCSM

Robotic technology at Wythenshawe hospital leading way in lung cancer detection and saving lives | ITV News Granada #RAB #RoboticBronchoscopy ⁦@IntuitiveSurg⁩ itv.com/news/granada/2…

(1/4) 👉 #Tobacco kills ~8 million people every year. 👉 🚬 causes at least 20 #cancer types, and 80% of #LungCancer deaths are due to tobacco use. 👉 #QuittingSmoking saves lives! Even after a cancer diagnosis, smoking cessation improves #survival & treatment success. #wclc2025

Credit to Sarah Ahmed, @hsbalata, @rbooton, Rhian Gabe, Phil Crosbie, Mat Callister for making this work happen.

Of course need to consider the evolving balance of risks/benefits of screening with age, but biological age varies widely. Hopefully we'll be able to develop new tools to identify & target more people who are likely to benefit.

Thanks #WCLC2025 for letting me share findings from large collaboration between Manchester @LungCheck and Leeds @LungHealthCheck about upper age limit for #lungcancer #screening. Particularly interesting that ≥75s who get to surgery do as well as 55-74yr olds. Age is a number!