ROMIO Study

Dr. Chris Metcalfe: Results from the ROMIO pragmatic RCT for localised oesphageal cancer showed no evidence of faster recovery with minimally invasive compared to open oesophagectomy, awaiting longer survival follow-up and economic evaluation. #NCRIFestival @NCRI_partners

Looking forward to our study CI Prof Chris Metcalfe sharing the ROMIO primary results at #NCRIFestival this afternoon in the 'Cancer Surgery' session 14:15 today- An excellent way to end the week

How can researchers help improve the care of patients diagnosed with oesophageal (gullet) and gastric (stomach) cancers? Our survey is now open and we want to hear from patients, their carers and family members, as well as the healthcare professionals who look after them.

Finally the results of the ROMIO study go public: UGI congress 2021 Wednesday at 5pm – Jane Blazeby is presenting @Augishealth #UGI2021

Thank you to all our patient participants, clinicians and site nursing and research teams who have made this study happen- we would not have made it to the final stages of the study without your support

We're now in data cleaning and analysis phase- we'll keep you posted

Study Milestone alert- It's 1st September and so the 24 month ROMIO follow-up period has ended! 👏Thanks for all your hard work everyone.

Our withdrawal slips Study Within a Trial (SWAT) has been registered as SWAT 146- as we're nearly at the end of our follow-up period, it won't be long till we can describe how this has worked in ROMIO qub.ac.uk/sites/TheNorth…

ROMIO is a huge team effort- we will be using a group authorship model as 'The ROMIO Study Group'- you can find out who we all are here: osf.io/9txmy/?view_on…

📢We are proud to announce that @ROMIOStudy will be sharing an e-Poster and our CI will be giving a presentation of our primary results at the #NCRIFestival 🎪hosted by @NCRI_partners in November this year! Why don't you sign yourself up to the virtual conference right away?

The @ROMIOStudy at @BrsTrialsCentre are going #Red4Research today. Thank you to all of the NHS staff and patients who have done so much to improve our understanding and treatment of #COVID19 Keep up the good work! 💟💟💟

This is a message for our marvellous @ROMIOStudy site staff: We are sending out Issue 7 of our ROMIO Staff Newsletter today. Not long now until the end of follow up, lets make that data perfect! Thank you for all your hard work! #teamworkmakesthedreamwork ✊

Congratulations to our very own Prof Blazeby @BlazebyJ on being elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences!

Our application for a routine data extract for survival and health economics data has been submitted to Public Health England- hoping it'll sail through ok

Feeling excited about our first virtual Investigator's meeting on Thursday- it's been fantastic to see how many participating staff plan to join us- hope you can make it!

We’ve designed an infographic with the help of some of our participants to help to explain what happens behind the scenes, after participating in the ROMIO study- a big thank you to all who were involved in making this

@BlazebyJ @EwenGriffiths @roux_group @UpperGIResearch @T4UGIS @OGAAudit @MarkarSheraz @UpperGIResUK Looking forward to sharing our first results as soon as we can

@EwenGriffiths @roux_group @UpperGIResearch @T4UGIS @OGAAudit @MarkarSheraz @UpperGIResUK The ROMIO study will initially report short term recovery between MIO and open surgery. Survival data will follow. In my view randomisation is the key to understanding how procedures compare as not possible to adjust for unknown confounders. Time will tell @ROMIOStudy

Any thoughts why survival is improved with minimal access oesophagectomy? Is it more nodes? Is it R0 rates? Is it something else? Is it just some sort of bias? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33480612/ @roux_group @UpperGIResearch @T4UGIS @OGAAudit @MarkarSheraz @UpperGIResUK

Feeling excited to be inviting our hard working ROMIO investigators' to our virtual investigators' meeting in March 2021- something to look forward to 😀

Team ROMIO are back for 2021 WFH from today- glad to be back! Good luck to all of our colleagues navigating through yet another very challenging period

Thank you and Merry Christmas to all who have worked so hard to keep ROMIO running during this year- we look forward to 2021, which will be a big year for the study as we plan to share the primary results in March (dates tbc as soon as possible in January!)