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Medical News: Astellas De-noltab® tablets
The Astellas product De-noltab® tablets (tri-potassium di-citrato bismuthate) is being discontinued from 31st December 2015…

Emmerdale star Fiona Wade joins the OPA as Patron
Emmerdale’s, Fiona Wade who plays Priya Sharma in the series, is joining the UK’s leading patient support charity, The Oesophageal

Annual General Meeting 2015
The OPA’s 2015 AGM will be hosted by our Derby Branch this year and you are invited to attend…

New Fundraising Platform
The OPA have recently joined Virgin Money Giving which is a fundraising platform for our supporters to create pages…

Where do you choose to have tests and surgery?
We are a team of researchers at Imperial College London looking at whether cancer patients like you…

AGM Presentation – O-G Cancer, The Next Ten Years
Many members have been asking for notes and information from the AGM which took place on Saturday 21st June 2014…

Can you help with our survey?
The Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care Priority Setting Partnership aims to identify the most important research areas…

Fundraising in the sun!
Chris and Rob Turner from West Bridgford, Nottingham held a coffee morning on 17th May to raise funds…
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