Emerging surgical therapies in surgical neuro-oncology
13th May 2026, 19:00 to 20:00 BST
Overview
In the last decade, improving surgical management for patients with the most common intrinsic brain tumour, glioma, has focused on maximising surgical resection and minimising patient morbidity. Patient overall survival has changed little though, and surgery is never curative. In the coming decade, the focus for surgeons will switch from maximising extent of resection to the deployment of novel therapies, at the time of surgery, to enhance tumour cell kill and control recurrence. In this webinar we will explore the cutting edge of these novel therapies, and their route to the clinic.
Aims
This webinar aims to equip attendees with knowledge about the latest surgical therapies in neuro-oncology, how they work, the evidence based for them, and the route to the clinic.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, attendees should be able to:
- Identify which new surgical therapies are closest to the clinic, and likely to benefit patients soon.
- Support patients in understanding these new therapies, and to make decisions about participating in new clinical trials.
Panellists
Our panellists include:
Professor Paul Brennan
Professor of Clinical and Experimental Neurosurgery, Honorary consultant neurosurgeon, University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian, Council member of the Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Paul Brennan is Professor of Clinical and Experimental neurosurgery at the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at NHS Lothian. Paul combines his general neurosurgical practice and subspecialist surgical neuro-oncology surgery with a broad portfolio of research.
Dr Faye Robertson
Dr Robertson is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist in the NHS and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on emerging therapies for glioblastoma and she is the chief investigator for the upcoming ADePT trial, a phase I/II study of a novel gene therapy for glioblastoma.
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Recording
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