Members of the Primary Care Cancer Group made a valuable contribution to CRUK’s Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme summer school, held in Cambridge in July 2019. Dr Fiona Walter presented on the use of cancer diagnostics in primary care while Dr Valerie Sills was Scrum Master for the winning team in the ‘Envisioning New Diagnostics’ […]
Going Live: Garth Funston’s PC4 Podcast
Earlier this year at the 2019 Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) Conference in Toronto, Cancer Group’s Garth Funston chatted to Dr Kristi Milley for the PC4 podcast. Building on his conference presentation ‘The association between CA125 level, diagnostic interval and stage at diagnosis in ovarian cancer: an analysis of CPRD and NCRAS […]
Which cancer diagnostic tests will work best in primary care? New CanTest Framework published today will help provide answers
The CanTest Framework, which provides a conceptual approach for the evaluation of cancer diagnostic tests from development to routine use in primary care, has been published today in BMC Cancer. Developed by the CanTest Senior Faculty team, this new framework addresses some key aspects missing from previous approaches. It incorporates a shift in focus away […]
Pushing forward on primary care cancer diagnosis: the CanTest Collaborative two years on
Blog by Dr Valerie Sills, Programme Manager for the CRUK-funded CanTest Programme. The CanTest programme supports research, capacity building and collaboration in the field of early detection and diagnosis of cancer in primary care. CanTest was announced by Cancer Research UK as the winner of the first ever Catalyst Award in January 2017, so the […]