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BTOG 2026 | Multidisciplinary approaches to lung cancer care in England’s NHS
Alastair Greystoke, PhD, MBChB, MRCP, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, highlights the value of bringing together a multidisciplinary community to deliver care for patients with lung cancer in England, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in the current NHS environment, including the uptake of screening and liquid biopsy services. Prof. Greystoke emphasizes the importance of sharing learnings and experiences to adapt pathways and address challenges. This interview took place at the 2026 British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) congress in Edinburgh, UK.
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The highlight for me from attending BTOG, as always, is bringing together the multidisciplinary community to work out how we can best deliver care for our patients with lung cancer in England. We’re in slightly challenging times in terms of the NHS environment, but also very exciting with uptake in screening, the liquid biopsy service that we now deliver. And so bringing us all together to work, to share learnings and experience in how we can best adapt our pathways to deal with the challenges is to me the most exciting and influential thing I’ve taken...
The highlight for me from attending BTOG, as always, is bringing together the multidisciplinary community to work out how we can best deliver care for our patients with lung cancer in England. We’re in slightly challenging times in terms of the NHS environment, but also very exciting with uptake in screening, the liquid biopsy service that we now deliver. And so bringing us all together to work, to share learnings and experience in how we can best adapt our pathways to deal with the challenges is to me the most exciting and influential thing I’ve taken.
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