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BASO Trainees Prize Paper Award

Open to all trainees         

Each year, BASO is delighted to offer awards for the best surgical oncology presentation by a trainee at the annual conference of each of the Surgical Specialty Associations.

The BASO Trainees (Formerly known as 'SOTA') Prize Papers Award is open to all such trainees, whether or not they are members of BASO Trainees group, and currently compromises a Certificate and Cheque for up to £200.

BASO Trainees Prize was awarded to:

2025 Presented at BASO Annual Sceintific Conference,10th-11th November 2025

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

Miss Mhairi Mactier

2024 Presented at BASO Annual Sceintific Conference, 4th-5th November 2024

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

Mr Raja Haseeb Basit

2023 Presented at BASO Annual Scientific Conference, 5th-7th November 2023

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

Mr Charles Rayner

2022 Presented at BASO Annual Scientific Conference, 19th-21st November 2022

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

Dr Jia Yin Tan

2021 Online meeting held on 20th -21st November 

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

 Mr Jing Xian Lee

2020 Online meeting held on 20th -21st November via ZOOM Platfrom

BASO Trainees Oral Presentation Prize

 Mr Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi

 

FULL LIST OF BASO TRAINEES PRIZES

2025      

  • SCTS      Stacey Stockdale     Feasibility Study for Introduction of a Day 1 Discharge Programme Post Anatomical Lung Resection and Major Thoracic Surgery
  •  ASIT       Dr Glenn Calvert     Beyond Survival: Predicting Local Control in Radiosurgically Treated Brain Metastases

2024     

  • SCTS      Kudzayi Kutywayo    Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in malignant pleural mesothelioma is a harbinger of poor prognosis following surgical resection

2023     

  • SCTS      Michael Schweigert   Impact of mobile lung cancer screening (HANSE Trial in Northern Germany) on the caseload of a thoracic surgery unit

2022     

  • SCTS      Stacey Stockdale         Introduction of Macmillan Community Thoracic Specialist Nurse

2021     

  • SCTS      Andreas Gkikas            Systematic Review of the Reported Outcomes in Invasive Management of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: The COS-iMeso Initiative​​
  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation      Mr Se Jing Xian Lee     Fluorescence guided resection of Glioblastoma using 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA): Does it improve survival?
  • BASO Trainees Poster Presentation    Miss Vasundhara Kandrapa  The impact of multimodal prehabilitation on surgical outcomes for major abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • ASiT (Poster Prize)       Ben Atkinson            Improving surgical and non-surgical oncological outcomes in patients with head and neck cancer

2020      

  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation             Mr Setthasorn    Addressing the Quality of Hospital Care of Colorectal Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery: What Did We Learn from the National Bowel Cancer Audit?
  •  BASO Trainees Poster Presentation        Mr Qiang Lu        Emergency robotic colorectal surgery - the new frontier; a case series study
  • ASiT (Oral P)      Rory Brittain      Lymph node involvement and survival in gastro-oesophageal cancer
  • ASiT (Poster P)  Emily Lousie      Incidence and Treatment of positive pelvic side wall (PSW) lymph nodes in patients with advanced rectal cancer; a retrospective study

2019      

  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation     Jenifer Allan      Does Pre-Operative Anti-Coagulation Therapy Impact Morbidity Following Regional Lymph Node Dissection?
  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation (runner up)     Harpreet Kaur Sekhon Inderjit Singh  The role of ethnicity in Colorectal Cancer Screening uptake: A systematic review.
  • BASO Trainees Poster Presentation     George Simmons    Systemic adjuvant chemotherapy for cholangiocarcinoma surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysi
  • BASO Trainees Poster Presentation (runner up)   Javeria Iqbal    Staging CT scan before Delayed breast reconstruction: Does it change the management?
  •  SCTS      Katie O’Sullivan         A systematic review and meta-analysis of robotic versus Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery approaches for lobectomy.
  • ASiT       Matthew A Goldsworthy     Cancer-associated fibroblasts induce extracellular matrix expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
  • ASiT       John Canny        Colonic stent as a bridge to theatre.

2018      

  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation             Daniel Ball        Propensity Score-Matched Comparison of Focal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) to Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (LRP) for Clinically Significant Localised Prostate Cancer
  • BASO Trainees Oral Presentation (runner up)     Stephen McSorely    Normocytic anaemia is associated with systemic inflammation and poorer survival in patients with colorectal cancer treated with curative intent
  •  BASO Trainees Poster Presentation        Christian Teske       Modulation of RAB5A early endosome trafficking in response to KRas mediated macropinocytic fluxes in pancreatic cancer cells
  •  BASO Trainees Poster Presentation (runner up)   Na Hyun Kim   T-stage migration by routine pre-biopsy MRI staging may affect risk assessment with current risk classification systems
  • ASiT       Witsarut Jirapongsakorn     The Surface Physical Properties Related with Specific Bacterial Biofilm Formation on the Surface of Implanted Surgical Meshe
  • ASiT       Hwei Jene Ng                Appendiceal Neoplasia – A Four Year Retrospective Multi-Centre Review of Practice
  • SCTS      Dr Ewan D Kennedy    Assessment of interval progression of non-small cell lung cancer between radiological diagnosis and surgery using the 8th TNM classification
  • BASO Trainees     Henry Smith      Viral ILP augments the efficiency of PD-1 blockade in an animal model of extremity soft tissue sarcoma

2017      

  • BASO Trainees     Narendranath Govindarajah       Investigating the role of acid ceramidase (AC) on the radiotherapy response of colorectal cancer cells
  • ASiT       Mr Kieran Atkinson      Electrochemotherapy Using Intratumoral Bleomycin For The Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma – Single Surgeon Results 2011 – 2016
  • ASiT       Miss Jessica Steadman    The Accuracy of CT T Staging of Colon Cancer
  • SCTS      Miss Udo Abah              Pathological lymph node involvement is not a predictor of adverse outcomes in patients undergoing VATS lobectomy for lung cancer

2016      

  • ASiT       Sun-Min       Towards a Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Nomogram for the Prediction of Transperineal Prostate Biopsy Outcome
  • ASiT       Mohammad Kamrazian      Rejecting Referrals for Asymptomatic Non-Visible Hematuria: Implications of a Change in Practice

2015     

  • ASiT       Emer O’connell       Predictors and patterns of melanoma recurrence following a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy 
  • ASiT       Luke Dickerson       Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer – What are our bypass rates and how can we improve
  • SCTS      Malcolm Will            VATS Segmentectomy - The future of pulmonary resection?

2014      

  • BASO + Cardiff University Teaching Day        Ameet Gupta  Characterising the effects of disruption to the Retinoblastoma – E2Fpathway and its effects on bladder cancer tumour genesis in genetically engineered mice
  • BASO + Cardiff University Teaching Day        Arfon Powell  The relationship between cancer related inflammation and genomic instability in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer
  • BASO + Cardiff University Teaching Day        Matthew Jefferies  Assessing synergy between Wnt, Plzkinase and Ras pathways in human prostate cancer
  • SCTS     Mr Malcolm Will  VATS Segmentectomy-The Future of Pulmonary Resection

2013      

  • ASiT       Matthew Smith     Is plasma fibrinogen a novel independent prognostic factor in patients undergoing surgery for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • ASiT       David Hunter         Determining Complete Clinical Response Of Radiologically Disappearing Colorectal Liver Metastases After Chemotherapy And How They Should Be Managed

2013      

  • ACPGBI       Panos Taflampas    Pre-operative Tumour Marker Status Predicts Recurrence and Survival after Complete Cytoreduction and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: Outcome in 519 patients

2012      

  • ASiT       Stephen Goldie       Irrigation of squamous cell carcinoma wounds to prevent local recurrence
  • SCTS      Anbabel Sharkey    Analysis of Potential Quality Outcome Measures for Lung Cancer Surgery Across a Cancer Network