Elaine Vickers PhD

Providing trusted, independent, and easy-to-understand education on the latest cancer treatments

Elaine Vickers PhD

Providing trusted, independent, and easy-to- understand education on the latest cancer treatments

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Speaking at the BOPA Annual Symposium in 2023

Helping cancer professionals understand the science behind the latest cancer treatments

My name is Elaine Vickers, PhD. I’ve spent the past twenty years delivering education that describes cancer biology and explains the science behind cancer treatments.

I’ve honed my ability to distil scientific discoveries and explain them to healthcare professionals in a way that helps them communicate better with colleagues and patients.

The first edition of my book was highly commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards. The second edition, A Beginner’s Guide to Targeted Cancer Treatments and Cancer Immunotherapy was published in November 2024.

I create study days, online courses, videos, and one-off presentations suitable for experienced oncology professionals and those new to cancer.

I also develop information for cancer patients.

Services

Contact me if you think I might be the person you need for a project or event.

My services include:

In-person study days
Educational videos
Live webinars
Keynote presentations for education days and conferences

An example of the illustrations I create for my materials

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Topics

As a molecular biologist, I focus on the subjects that I know best and that I can distil into interesting and effective education.

These topics include:

How our cells function normally and how cancer cells are different
The DNA mutations that drive cancer’s development and continued evolution
The relationship between cancer and our immune system
The cancer microenvironment
The pros, cons, and mechanisms of action of small molecule- and antibody-based treatments
Descriptions of the mechanisms of action of an enormous number of targeted therapies and immunotherapies for cancer
Overviews of relevant treatment approaches for individual cancer types, including cancers of the lung, breast, bowel, prostate, upper GI tract, ovaries, kidneys, bladder, skin (including melanoma), and haematological cancers.

Courses can be delivered as full-day or half-day courses or as a series of live online webinars.

Recommendations

Elaine has created some fantastic videos to explain melanoma and various treatments as part of our revamp of our cutaneous melanoma patient information. We have had fantastic feedback from clinicians, nurses and importantly patients. We look forward to working with Elaine with the development of future patient resources.

I have been attending Elaine’s study days for many years and I learn something new every time! Elaine has the magical ability to make the science behind treatments understandable and fun and very worthwhile.

Elaine as a scientific educator has twice now supported face to face internal training for me at Sanofi to both commercial and medical teams on the “science of the immune system and cancer immunotherapy.” She was able to deliver a bespoke training session based on the brief and has a knack of breaking the complex subject matter into meaningful chunks whilst keeping it interactive. Always has some of the highest feedback. Highly recommend to compliment in house clinical training.

Elaine simplifies complexity, simple as that. Elaine has been invaluable to the oncology community as the landscape shifts with complex treatment modalities bridging science and clinical practice. Thanks Elaine for navigating and educating the nursing community, helping us keep pace with science.

Why Elaine?

There are lots of reasons why I think you should work with me!

A few include:

The breadth of my knowledge
I provide accurate, up-to-date information that reflects the reality of cancer treatments
My exceptional communication skills

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