Updates in diabetes and cancer

Thursday 3 July 2025, 9am to 5pm BST

What to expect

  • Updates in the understanding of the relationship between diabetes and cancer
  • Cancer and social exclusion: treatment access
  • Overview of the management of patients with cancer and diabetes, including specific case studies
  • An update about the impact of cancer treatments on blood glucose levels
  • An insight into the multidisciplinary care that patients with both cancer and diabetes require

Intended audience

All healthcare professionals (health care assistants, nurses, specialist nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, physician associates, doctors in training, resident doctors, general practice and consultants) who encounter patients with cancer and/or diabetes.

Sponsor

Silver sponsor

The logo for Novo Nordisk, showing a blue cow.

Novo Nordisk have provided sponsorship to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to cover the cost of the silver package for this meeting. They have had no influence over the meeting agenda or arrangements. In return, Novo Nordisk will have stand space and 3 Novo Nordisk employees permitted to attend the meeting.

Bronze sponsor

The logo for Recordati Rare Diseases.

Updates in diabetes and cancer - Thursday 3 July 2025

Time Session
9.00 Registration
9.30
Welcome and introductions
10.20
Talk: Drugs Used In The Management Of Cancer And Their Link With Diabetes
Dr Jamie Weaver, Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

10.55 - break

Time Session
11.20 Talk: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor - Induced Diabetes Mellitus
Dr Safwaan Adam, Consultant Endocrinologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
12.00
How To Set Up A Diabetes and Cancer Service
Panel

13.00 - lunch

Time Session
14.00 Diabetes And Colorectal Cancer—The Evidence
Dr Emma Vincent, Associate Professor in Molecular Metabolism, University of Bristol
14.30
A Patient's Journey With Cancer

15.00 - break

Time Session
15.20 Clinical Case With Diabetes

16.30 - close

Last updated: June 2025