Molecular Tumour Board

Our guests today include Dr Dearbhaile Collins, Tanya Knott and Claire Bermingham. Dearbhaile

Colllins is a medical oncologist, and also the Clinical Lead for the Cancer Trials Ireland Molecular

Tumour Board.


Tanya Knott represents patients on the Molecular Tumour Board steering committee. She’s also a

Director of the SJK Foundation, which was founded in honour of Tanya’s sister Sarah Jennifer Knott,

who died of CUP, Cancer of Unknown Primary, aged 31.


Our last guest is Claire Bermingham, who co-ordinates the Molecular Tumour Board in Cancer Trials

Ireland.


THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT


  • How the MTB works and success with patients
  • Next Generation Sequencing
  • The cost of going private
  • Sarah Jennifer Knotts story and the work of the foundation
  • How doctors can have MTB review cases


MORE INFORMATION


https://sjkfoundation.org/about-us/

https://www.cancertrials.ie/molecular-tumor-board/


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