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
2024 Presented at BASO Annual Sceintific Conference, 4th-5th November 2024
2023 Presented at BASO Annual Scientific Conference, 5th-7th November 2023
2022 Presented at BASO Annual Scientific Conference, 19th-21st November 2022
2021 Online meeting held on 20th -21st November
2020 Online meeting held on 20th -21st November via ZOOM Platfrom
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