Research communications manager @PancreaticCanUK. Science storyteller, patient involvement advocate, lapsed geneticist, powered by tea & cake. All views my own.
Derby, England
Joined November 2018
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Today’s the day!! 🧫🧪👩🔬🧑🔬🧬
So proud to have played a part in bringing our new research strategy to life. It’s genuinely such an exciting time for #PancreaticCancer research and I can’t wait to see how the field progresses over the next five years 💜
Research saves lives.
We're thrilled to share our new research strategy, setting out our ambition to ensure the next 5 years sees the transformational advances in #PancreaticCancer research that will help us detect early, treat better & save lives: bit.ly/3PX7g02
Looking forward to the next two days hearing about the latest developments in #PancreaticCancer research, catching up with the research community and lots of discussion and debate about the current challenges we face and how we can work to overcome them #PCUKForum2025
Today our research team are in Birmingham for the start of our Research Forum!
This annual event brings together the #PancreaticCancer research community to discuss the challenges in this field and how together, we can overcome them.
#PCUKForum2025
ALT PCUK Staff Members stand smiling at the 2025 Research Forum
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What is a #BreathTest, and how does it work? 🦠
Thanks to your support, the world's first breath test for #PancreaticCancer is moving into it's second phase of development with Professor George Hanna and his team at Imperial College London.
Read more: bit.ly/3X3pCil
A breath test for pancreatic cancer could be a vital step forward to improve early detection and save lives.
After 50 years of little progress, we really are now starting to see improvements in the detection and treatment of this devastating disease.
Such an exciting time 💜💜
We're thrilled to announce that we've awarded @profgeorgehanna and his team at @imperialcollege
@imperialsandc further funding to take the #PancreaticCancer breath test @IC_VAPOR_Study
into the next stage of development.
Find out more: bit.ly/3JwN2JU
ALT breaking research news! results from the first phase of the breath test project show the test is able to accurately indentify people with pancreatic cancer. text is shown above a megaphone icon
ALT thanks to your support, we're now moving this project to the next stage, a large clinical trial involving thousands of people. text is shown above icons of people with a magnifying glass
So great to see the launch of this new case-finding pilot from @NHSEngland which @PancreaticCanUK have helped develop. New onset diabetes is the largest at-risk group for #PancreaticCancer so there is a huge opportunity here to improve early detection and save lives. 💜
Early detection of #PancreaticCancer saves lives, which is why we're delighted @NHSEngland are investing in a new initiative that aims to identify people with a new diagnosis of diabetes who may also have pancreatic cancer. Here, @A_BBearfield tells us more about this new pilot.
Our new project grants launch today! 🎉
Great opportunity to support groundbreaking research that aims to improve the early detection or treatment of #PancreaticCancer and help improve survival rates for this devastating disease.
Can’t wait to see what we fund! 💜🧫🔬🧪🧑🔬🦠💜
Today we're delighted to be launching our new project grants! These awards will support bold, pioneering, collaborative #PancreaticCancer research. Awards of up to £330,000 are available for a maximum of three years. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/456NtmJ
SUCH an amazing day. So proud to work for such a fantastic charity, hoping that the Charity of the Year partnership helps us to raise more awareness, do more research and a make a difference for everyone affected by pancreatic cancer 💜💜💜
As the 2025 TCS @LondonMarathon Charity of the Year, we're still riding the wave of such an extraordinary day.
We’re grateful to every single person involved.
Thanks to your training, fundraising and cheering, we can give more than hope to people facing pancreatic cancer. 💜
Thanks so much for coming to see us @lucysian248 and for your really interesting talk. Lots of potential to improve the early detection of #PancreaticCancer by monitoring at-risk groups such as people with new-onset or worsening diabetes, excited to see how this progresses! 💜👩🔬
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome @lucysian248 to our office where she gave a brilliant presentation to staff on her research focused on identifying people with new-onset diabetes who may also have #PancreaticCancer.
Thanks so much for taking the time to join us!
ALT katherine free and lucy oldfield in the pcuk office
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Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest common cancer.
More than half of people die within three months of diagnosis. Families are left with only hope to hold onto.
But people with #PancreaticCancer deserve more than just hope.
Stand with us: bit.ly/3AtObgV
Thanks Sharon for a fantastic day of media training, packed full of lots of practical tips and feedback!
Perfect dress for the green screen then! Thank you @PancreaticCanUK for a wonderful day’s #mediatraining - to highlight the incredible work the charity does.
It was great to spend the last few days in Brighton at the #LibDemConf speaking to MPs and party members about #PancreaticCancer and how they can help us improve survival rates for the deadliest common cancer. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our stand!
Goodbye, Brighton!
Thanks to all the Liberal Democrat MPs and delegates who visited us @LibDemConf. We can’t wait to start working together to drive forward progress for people with #PancreaticCancer.
Next, we’ll be heading to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference.
It was lovely to meet you @Mehwaesh!
Our Research Policy Manager @Mehwaesh is at the @LibDems Conference today and popped by some of our charities' stands: @CharityDEBRA and @PancreaticCanUK.
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Our Research Policy Manager @Mehwaesh is at the @LibDems Conference today and popped by some of our charities' stands: @CharityDEBRA and @PancreaticCanUK.
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Great meeting with @JessBrownFuller and @MP4Stratford today, talking about progress on early detection and how together we can work to improve outcomes for #LessSurvivableCancers.
Fantastic to have their support as we push for more progress.
Great to be at the @LibDemConf in Brighton for the next few days raising awareness of #PancreaticCancer and the less survivable cancers, and how the government can help us change things for people affected by this devastating disease.
More than half of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die within three months. Thank you to @AndrewGeorge_ who dropped by to chat to Katherine @libdemconf to find out how we can work together to change this. #LDConf
It was a privilege to spend time with Jake & show him some of the work we’re supporting which aims to improve early detection & treatment of #pancreaticcancer. Such an emotional & inspiring day. Thanks to the @CRUKCamPancCan for being so welcoming and generous with their time! 💜
Jake, who lost his grandmother Doreen to pancreatic cancer after only six months, visited our Cambridge research lab to find out how we aim to double the number of survivors.
Double your donation today and help find the answers we urgently need: bit.ly/3VZTIna
Brilliant two days in Liverpool for #PCUKForum2024, great to catch up with our research community, learn about latest developments & discuss challenges. Always so inspiring & exciting to hear how we’re making much-needed progress towards improving early detection & treatment! 💜
And that's a wrap on #PCUKForum2024! Over 100 #PancreaticCancer researchers joined us over two days for networking, collaboration and debate. We've had some really useful and thought-provoking discussions, thanks to everyone who came along. Over and out - until next year!
ALT Group photo
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We're back for day 2 of our #PCUKForum2024! Today we'll focus on how we can address some of the most challenging aspects of treating #PancreaticCancer including cahexia & treating secondary disease. Looking forward to another fantastic day of discussions and debate 🧬🧪🩺🔬
Katherine Free retweeted
Wrapping up a great morning of discussions at #PCUKForum2024 around interface of technology & biology in #PancreaticCancer research with Prof Michelle Garrett highlighting that we can't choose to focus on just one of early detection and treatment research - "We need to do both"