Manchester Kidney Cancer Patient Information Day 2016

Here is the information for our Manchester Kidney Cancer Patient Information Day 2016 held on Wednesday 30 November

Location: Novotel (click for location)
21 Dickinson St, Manchester M1 4LX
Agenda:
AM
9:00          Arrival and registration with tea/coffee
9:15          Welcome from Kidney Cancer UK’s Patient  Information and Support Leader, Lucy Willingale
9:30          Services at Maggie’s for kidney cancer patients – Sinead Collins, Centre Head, Maggie’s Manchester
10:00        Kidney Cancer – Dr Shein Chow
10:35        Immontherapy and IL2 – Professor Robert Hawkins
11:00        Tea break

11:20        Patients experience of diagnosis and treatment – John Griffin
11:30        Macmillan talk on services in the community- Helen Adamson Deputy Manager, Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre  UHSM
12:00        Immotherapy and its uses for kidney cancer- Research nurse Susanna Smith – Immunology and OG Research team Clinical Research Nurse The Christie
12:30 -1:15 lunch and chance to chat and mingle 
PM
1:30         Overview hospice nurse specialist – Jenny Gallager Palliative Care Nurse Specialist, Wigan and Leigh hospice
2:00         Te role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)- Andrea Spencer Shaw, Clinical Nurse Specialist
2:30         Patient experience of nivolumab- Philip Halliwell
3:00 close with tea and biscuits.