Presentations from the diabetes and pancreatic cancer

• 09.15 – 09.20: Welcome and introduction – Lisa Woodrow, Pancreatic Cancer Specialist Nurse, Pancreatic Cancer UK
• 09.20 – 09.30: Lived experience video 
• 09.30 – 10.10: Introduction to diabetes and pancreatic cancer – Anna Burton, Senior Specialist Pancreatic Dietitian, Leeds Teaching Hospital
• 10:10 – 10.20: Research update – Eithne Costello, Professor of Molecular Oncology, Department of Molecular & Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK
• 10.20 – 10.30: Break
• 10.30 – 11.20: Medical management – Philip Johnston, Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast
• 11.20 – 11.30: Break
• 11.30 – 12.25: Nutritional management, impact of diabetes on treatment, and end of life – Laura McGeeney, Diabetes Specialist Dietitian, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
• 12.25 – 12.30: Close

There was an opportunity to submit questions throughout the event and these were answered in Q&A sessions held at the end of each presentation.

Introduction to diabetes and pancreatic cancer
In this opening session we’ll ensure everyone is up to speed on diabetes and pancreatic cancer before we go into the sessions around management.

• The pancreas functions
• What is diabetes and what are the different types?
• The physiology of type 3c diabetes
• Introduction to pancreatic cancer, how it is treated and symptoms associated with the disease
• The relationship between diabetes and pancreatic cancer

Medical management

• Glycaemic management
• Medical management
• Hypoglycaemia
• Illness management

Nutritional management, impact of diabetes on treatment, and end of life

• Nutritional management of diabetes with pancreatic cancer including pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT)
• The impact of surgery, chemotherapy, and other treatment on managing diabetes
• Managing diabetes at the end of life

This session is suitable for all healthcare professionals treating and supporting people with pancreatic cancer, no matter your level or role.

It is particularly relevant for UGI / HPB CNSs and consultants, diabetes specialist nurses and consultants, dietitians (specialists and non-specialists) and palliative care specialists.

Lisa Woodrow
Pancreatic Cancer Specialist Nurse, Pancreatic Cancer UK
Lisa has worked in a variety of settings including on a gastroenterology ward, intensive care unit, as a research nurse running clinical trials and latterly worked for over a decade as a specialist nurse looking after patients with pancreatic and liver cancer in a specialist centre in London.  Her main focus has been providing care and support for patients having surgery. She has been a specialist nurse here at PCUK for 5 years

Eithne Costello
Professor of Molecular Oncology, Department of Molecular & Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK
Eithne currently leads a Cancer Research UK-funded programme called UK Early Detection Initiative for Pancreatic Cancer (UK-EDI), the aim of which is to learn how to detect pancreatic cancer in individuals newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. She sits on the UK management committee and is a Working Group lead for the European Union TRANSPAN COST ACTION (CA21116/Identification of biological markers for prevention and translational medicine in pancreatic cancer). She is a member of the Clinical Trial Pathology Advisory Group and chairs the European Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer translational steering committee. She is a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Anna Burton
Senior Specialist Pancreatic Dietitian, Leeds Teaching Hospital
Anna has 25 years experience in clinical dietetics including parenteral nutrition, Newcastle University Medical School nutrition education, critical care, gastroenterology, immunology, paediatrics and burns; initially within the dietetic service provided by Newcastle Nutrition. In 2000 Anna joined the dietetic department at St James’s Hospital, Leeds specialising in gastrointestinal surgery and parenteral nutrition.  Pancreatic surgical dietetics won Anna’s heart and she has jointly led the very busy pancreatic dietetic service since 2007 in Leeds.

Philip Johnston
Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast
Dr Philip Johnston is a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and medicine in the Belfast Trust since 2014 and works out of both the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals. Together with nursing, dietetic and hepatobiliary colleagues he established a dedicated pancreatic diabetes clinic in Belfast in 2016 to manage patients with this form of diabetes and is active in research in this area. Philip is a member of the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network (NICRN) and a Multi-Center Trial Investigator in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

Laura McGeeney
Diabetes Specialist Dietitian, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Laura is a Diabetes Specialist Dietitian, having previously worked as a Pancreatic Specialist Dietitian for the past 13 years. This new diabetes knowledge and experience combines with a deep knowledge of nutrition and pancreatic disease to particularly support people with both. She is secretary of Nutrition Interest Group of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and co-lead of the Nursing and AHP programme at the CRUK Cambridge Centre. She was the dietitian on the Guideline Committee for the Pancreatic Cancer NICE guideline and has written guidelines and patient information on many aspects of the nutritional management of pancreatic disease.