A new systematic review guided by the CanTest Framework found that while there is a large number of biomarkers being developed for the detection of upper GI cancers, more evidence from evaluations in low-prevalence populations like primary care is still needed before their adoption in clinical practice can be recommended. Cancers of the stomach, oesophagus, […]
Archives for 2020
How COVID-19-related healthcare changes affected patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including lupus
During the 2020 pandemic, patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (including lupus) expressed a strong sense of being endangered from both the virus and the redeployment of medical resources. Decreased physician ability to help and increased patient reticence to seek help, created the ‘perfect storm’ for adverse outcomes, according to a study led by the […]
Identifying Ovarian Cancer in Symptomatic Women: A Systematic Review of Clinical Tools
A new CanTest systematic review, just published in Cancers, found that several existing externally validated symptom-based tools have moderate diagnostic accuracy for ovarian cancer detection. The team concluded that the clinical impact of the most promising tools now needs to be evaluated. Ovarian cancer has the worst prognosis of all gynaecological cancers, accounting for over […]
Share your experience of care for heart failure during a pandemic
Determining perspectives of patients and healthcare providers on managing patients with heart failure during a pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has revealed a number of changes in practice and challenges in providing care for patients with heart failure and other long-term conditions during a time when resources are shifted to fighting the infection. […]
Perfect imperfections: the difficult balance between perceiving individual stories and large statistics simultaneously
Dr Rakesh Modi is a GP and Primary Care Unit researcher on the landmark NIHR-funded SAFER trial investigating screening to detect an undiagnosed heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes. Here he writes on the difficult balance between perceiving individual stories and large statistics simultaneously, and how both the pandemic and the SAFER trial […]
University of Cambridge and St Luke’s Hospice (Harrow and Brent) create the first fully Hospice-funded PhD Fellowship to improve end-of-life care in care homes
St Luke’s Hospice (Harrow and Brent) and the Palliative & End of Life Care Group at the University of Cambridge have appointed Susannah Browne as St Luke’s Hospice PhD Fellow to research medical provision for care home residents at the end of life. Growing numbers of adults are living in care homes, often until the […]
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