Prof Mehanna has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, one of the highest honours for an clinician in the UK. The Academy is a fellowship of the UK's most influential medical scientists, and strives to advance medical science and benefit to patients. Election to the Fellowship is a recognition of distinguished contribution and impact in medical science. https://acmedsci.ac.uk/about

When head and neck cancer spreads to lymph nodes, doctors look to see if cancer cells have broken out of the node into the surrounding tissue. This is called extranodal extension and is linked to a higher risk of the cancer coming back or spreading, so it often triggers stronger treatment (for example, adding chemotherapy to radiotherapy after surgery). Until now, different hospitals and pathologists have used different definitions, which leads to confusion in research and in patient...