Pancreatic (Pancreatic Cancer & Pancreatitis)

Our Pancreatic Genomic Community of Practice (CoP) is one of several CoPs we are currently supporting. See below for further details, including future meetings and how to join.

Lead Clinician

Edward Alabraba, Consultant Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Who is this CoP for?

Clinical Genetics
Hepatobiliary Surgery
Hepatologists
Oncologists

About this Community of Practice

Genomic services have two distinct rare disease pathways related to the pancreas:

R175 focused on identifying hereditary pancreatitis
R367 related to the hereditary predisposition syndromes that account for 10% of pancreatic cancers

Identification of hereditary pancreatitis and rare cancer predisposition syndromes is crucial for referral to expert centres, best practice, prognostication, prophylactic interventions and targeted therapies.

Developing this community of practice is needed to:

raise awareness
improve the appropriateness and quality of genomic test referals
promote dialogue with laboratory scientists to enhance pathways
disseminate best practice.

Ultimately our aim is to support equitable access to all eligible patients throughout the East Midlands and East of England.

Meeting schedule

Information on the recurrent day of the month and time of this CoP will be added shortly.

Details of the first meeting will be added here shortly.

Non-urgent advice: Join this Community of Practice

To join this - or any of our Genomic Communities of Practice - please register (or update) your details via our form here.

Please ensure to select the Community of Practice that you wish to join.

Resources from previous meetings

You can access slides and recordings of all Pancreatic CoP meetings on our FutureNHS workspace.

If you haven't already, you can request access to this platform by following this link (opens in a new tab).