INSTEP video filming today
Dr Sally Wheelwright was filming content for the INSTEP intervention with the Central Media Services team at the University of Brighton today. The aim of INSTEP is to help people who are less active get fitter and stronger ahead of colorectal cancer surgery. Sally is co-leading the project with Dr Luke Hodgson. Many thanks to physio Nikki Dent and volunteer Gilbert Wheelwright for taking part in filming.
News item posted 23/01/2026
SHORE-C at UKIBCS
Professor Fallowfield and other member of the SHORE-C team are at the The UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium (UKIBCS) in Birmingham this week. Here is our research assistant Niomie Wogan presenting her poster on the development of the HEARSAY workshops. You can see the full poster here
News item posted 20/01/2026
Esme is the New Student Representative for the Sussex Cancer Research Centre
Esme Morcom is the new Student Representative for the Sussex Cancer Research Centre. This role plays an important part in strengthening connections between students and the Centre's research community, ensuring student voices are heard and actively involved in shaping opportunities across SCRC. Esme will help to strengthen the connection between students and the SCRC's important work. Over the coming months, she will be putting together student-led interviews and spotlights on the SCRC's research and researchers. If you'd like to be featured, have a project you want to share, or want to help create this content, she would love to hear from you. You can reach her at e.morcom1@uni.bsms.ac.uk. Read about her research: Predicting CRF in Women
News item posted 19/01/2026
Professor Fallowfield is ranked 5th in the UK and 51st in the world for Oncology Research.
Academics past and present from across the University and the Institute of Development Studies have been recognised in the recently-released ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar listings. The ScholarGPS rankings place the top scholars worldwide, identifying researchers whose cumulative publication achievements and citation impact distinguish them as global leaders in their fields. Professor Fallowfield is ranked 5th in the UK and 51st in the world for Oncology. University of Sussex Staff Hub - Sussex academics amongst the world's most influential scholars
News item posted 19/01/2026
Esme's new film about her PhD project
Esme Morcom our new PhD student, working under the supervision of Dr Sally Wheelwright, has produced a short film explaining her PhD project which you can now watch on YouTube
News item posted 10/12/2025
A busy Breast Cancer Awareness Month for Professor Fallowfield
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield has had multiple international obligations as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month which included a Symposium in New York for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and culminated with the ABC Global Alliance 8 meeting in Lisbon. She presented the next Global Decade Report 2025-2035 (Goal 5) on communication and was part of the ABC8 consensus meeting for the treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer. The communication chapter was published this week in the Breast
News item posted 11/11/2025
BCRF award and Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield has been awarded $225,000 from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), the highest rated breast cancer research organisation in the US started in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder who died of metastatic breast cancer. Annual awards are given to only 260 researchers from top universities around the world to help them pursue ground-breaking innovative research. The grant will permit Dame Lesley and her team at SHORE-C to continue research which includes development of unique evidence-based communication skills programmes; these are designed to help healthcare professionals discuss the risks and benefits of genetic testing and treatment options in understandable and non-patronising ways. October is also Breast Cancer Awareness month which will see Professor Fallowfield participating in a variety of media awareness and fund-raising events in the UK and US. This will start with a meeting at the Houses of Parliament and a reception in London celebrating Elizabeth Hurley, Estee Lauder Companies' Ambassador for the past 30 years who has been a great supporter and participant in SHORE-C's research. (See photo above of a visit to SHORE-C with Director Professor Lesley Fallowfield and Deputy Director Professor Val Jenkins)
News item posted 01/10/2025
New video of Professor Fallowfield talking about our work
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield has recorded a video with the media team at BSMS explaining the work we do here at SHORE-C. You can find the video here on YouTube
News item posted 19/09/2025
Farewell Phoebe!
Today we wish our senior research administrator, Phoebe, farewell and good luck as she heads off to start a nursing course at Brighton University!
News item posted 18/09/2025
Cancer-related Fatigue Research
The SCRC (Sussex Cancer Research Centre) Fatigue Research group meets regularly to discuss research on cancer-related fatigue. This group is led by Dr Sally Wheelwright. The meetings will be held on 9 Oct, 20 Nov, 22 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar and 21 May, from 10am to 11am in the JMS Building, 2B4 Kroto Room, University of Sussex campus. Cancer-Related Fatigue Research Meetings
News item posted 26/08/2025
Breast Cancer Trials 46th Annual Scientific Meeting
In July Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield travelled to Australia to speak at the Breast Cancer Trials: 46th Annual Scientific Meeting in Hobart, Tasmania. She was the opening speaker for their scientific session with a plenary lecture on the topic "Burn out and self-care for the clinician". Throughout the event she gave two additional lectures covering "Helping healthcare workers help their patients with metastatic breast cancer" and "Communicating Risk of Recurrence: The IMPARTER Trial". At the scientific meeting she was a discussant at a Concept Development Workshop where she gave critique of some new clinical trials. In addition, she also participated in filmed Q&A sessions covering Supportive Care in Breast Cancer which were also broadcast live.
News item posted 11/08/2025
Make2ndsCount Patient Summit
Prof Dame Lesley Fallowfield had an important role in organising the recent Make2ndsCount Patient Summit in Liverpool. This unique 3-day event is held entirely for patients with metastatic breast cancer, over 100 of whom attended in person with 400 watching on-line. The summit had an innovative line up of excellent speakers providing updates on new treatments, clinical trials, genomics, and management of side-effects together with sessions on sexual well-being, nutrition and exercise. Prof Fallowfield held an 'In Conversation' session with Ashley Dalton MP , Under-secretary of State for Public Health & Prevention and Liz O'Riordan, former breast cancer surgeon and award-winning Author & Podcaster, both of whom spoke candidly about their own breast cancer diagnoses and treatment. The meeting is an inspiring, heart-warming and humbling event unlike any other conference that academics usually speak at. As those on the dance-floor after the conference dinner demonstrated, people can and do continue to live well with advanced disease.
News item posted 24/06/2025