The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC)

We’re waiting for you! ✨ The 2026 Call for Abstracts has been extended, giving you extra time to submit your research. 🗓️ New deadline: Friday, 14 August, 17:00 CEST If you’re a young cancer clinician, researcher, or academic, this is your chance to take the stage at the European Cancer Summit and present your work in front of leading figures from across the cancer community. You’ve done the work. Now give it the attention it deserves. 🎤 Application guidelines are here 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eY9vaaea

How can we remove barriers to supportive care for sexual and gender minoritized communities? Prof. Don S. Dizon discusses this important topic in our latest MASCC Short Talk:

Now available: “Reimagining Nutrition in Cancer Care: From Supportive to Strategic” from Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center Supportive Oncology Grand Rounds video series. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/g8kDyaSH

Are you looking to bridge the gap between clinical evidence and real-world patient expectations in supportive cancer care? The on-demand recording of our recent symposium at the MASCC/ISOO 2026 Annual Meeting, "Improving outcomes in MEC: clinical evidence, trial insights and the patient perspective", is now available free of charge on OncoCorner. Chaired by Matti Aapro and florian Scotté, this session dives into the persistent challenges and unmet needs in managing moderate emetogenic chemotherapy (MEC). Featuring critical insights from Mario Di Palma on current treatment landscapes, Matti Aapro on trial data for risk assessment, and Eva Schumacher-Wulf on the patient voice, the discussion delivers essential guidance for healthcare professionals, researchers, and patient advocates alike. 👉 Watch the full session on-demand: https://lnkd.in/ewksKy3E #SupportiveCare #MASCC2026 The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC)

In our latest Supportive Care Digest, Dr. Mélanie Janson discusses the results of the COBRRA study, which suggests that bleeding side effects are lower with apixaban than rivaroxaban as curative anticoagulation therapy for acute venous thromboembolism. Original publication from Dr. Lana Castellucci and colleagues: https://lnkd.in/g2_qHDpH

Delighted to have completed The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Cognition Emerging Leader Fellowship - an excellent international programme supporting the next generation of leaders in supportive cancer care. My fellowship, centred on the development of the MASCC COG-IMPACT tool, the first measure designed to identify peoples’ unmet supportive care needs resulting from the impacts of cancer-related cognitive impairment on daily life and wellbeing. Through this process, this fellowship evolved into a growing international programme of research focused on improving how cognitive difficulties are recognised, assessed, and managed in cancer care. The key outputs of this fellowship were: (1) The qualitative underpinnings of the Tool: https://lnkd.in/gwDYWB_7 (2) The development and validation of the MASCC COG-IMPACT: https://lnkd.in/gV-57fnY (3) The official endorsement of the Tool by the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA): https://lnkd.in/gV-57fnY (4) The publicly available suite of resources to facilitate the use of the Tool in research and practice: https://lnkd.in/gcnybz6n Some key examples of impact of this work, since completion just over a year ago, include: (1) the MASCC COG-IMPACT has been distributed to the MASCC Centres of Excellence for international clinical implementation (2) the MASCC COG-IMPACT being cited as a recommended tool in the new Optimal Care Pathway for Older People with Cancer. (3) the MASCC COG-IMPACT has been included as a recommended assessment tool in the Core Content of the new (in public consultation) Cancer Australia templates that will form all new Optimal Care Pathways. Within this fellowship, I also led multiple related publications within my CRCI program - a few examples below: (1) A computational simulation study to test a novel CRCI mitigation strategy: https://lnkd.in/gx3iE39M (2) The first umbrella review of non‑pharmacological CRCI interventions: https://lnkd.in/gVPmjzvj (3) A novel theoretical model of CRCI and psychopathology: https://lnkd.in/gqgbWmrJ A lot more is to come within this program, including many MASCC COG-IMPACT cultural and language adaptations, short forms, and further population validations. My sincere thanks to MASCC, the MASCC Foundation, my mentors (listed/tagged below), collaborators, and the many cancer survivors and clinicians whose insights shaped this work. Mentorship team: Lead Mentors: Nicolas Hart Susan Rossell Mentors: Alexandre Chan, PharmD, PhD, MPH, FCCP, FISOPP, FMASCC Raymond Chan Haryana Dhillon Ashley Henneghan Maryam Lustberg Moira O'Connor Janette Vardy University of Technology Sydney UTS Human Performance Research Centre UTS Faculty of Health INSIGHT UTS Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Wellbeing and Health #MASCC #CancerSurvivorship #PsychoOncology #CancerResearch

New open-access article in Supportive Care in Cancer: Online cancer forums and complementary and alternative medicine in cancer care: effects of ehealth literacy and psychological distress on use and attitudes https://lnkd.in/gu8gHU3W

Congratulations to our newly completed The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Emerging Leader Fellowship holders. Dr Jasmine Yee completed her MASCC Terry Langbaum Survivorship Fellowship establishing global research priorities for people affected by Advanced or Metastatic Cancer (/paper in review); building on the recent MASCC-ASCO Standards. Dr Darren Haywood completed his MASCC Cognition Fellowship developing a unmet needs assessment tool for people with cancer-related cognitive impairment (the MASCC COG-IMPACT tool): https://lnkd.in/evmH649j Dr. Seyi (Andi) A. completed her MASCC Fatigue Fellowship describing successful models of care implemeted worldwide to address cancer-related fatigue; thereby helping healthcare providers establish fatigue management programs for cancer survivors in their local context (/paper in review). Each of them have produced exceptional work, supported by lead mentors (Raymond Chan, Meera Agar, Nicolas Hart, Susan Rossell, Amber Kleckner) and sponsors (including Thomas Smith, Nicolas Hart and MASCC Foundation).

📢 Delighted to share our latest publication in the British Journal of Pain: "Mapping the gaps: Multi-disciplinary chronic pain service provision for cancer-related pain across England". Cancer-related pain affects an estimated 40-50% of people living with and beyond cancer, yet little has been known about the availability of specialist multidisciplinary pain support across England. Our study explored current service provision within NHS Trusts and identified significant gaps in access, data collection, and reporting. Key findings include: ✅ Less than half of responding NHS Trusts reported providing a multidisciplinary chronic pain service. ✅ Very few organisations were able to provide attendance or demographic data for people experiencing cancer-related pain. ✅ Inconsistent coding and recording practices make it difficult to understand the true scale of need. These findings highlight the urgent need for more consistent approaches to identifying, recording, and supporting people living with cancer-related pain. Many thanks to my co-authors and everyone who contributed to this work. Candy McCabe Alison Llewellyn Alice Berry Fiona Cramp #CancerSurvivorship #CancerCare #PainManagement #SupportiveCare #CancerRelatedPain #NursingResearch #HealthServicesResearch #UWEBristol The British Pain Society UKONS (UK Oncology Nursing Society) The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Centre for Health and Care Research (CHCR) at UWE Bristol https://lnkd.in/dnQwwnW7