Dr Garth Funston and colleagues have won the 2020 Research Paper of the Year for Clinical Research, awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners, for their paper on detecting cancer in primary care. The research shows that CA125, a simple blood test available in primary care, is useful for ovarian cancer detection in symptomatic […]
How patients and the public are involved in research to improve the early diagnosis of cancer
Patient and public involvement in research: in this Primary Care Unit case study, we learn that the CanTest Collaborative has had PPI at its heart from the outset, aiming to improve the early diagnosis of cancer in primary care settings Summary: The CanTest Collaborative is a great example of how to include patients and members […]
Dr Garth Funston wins World Ovarian Cancer Coalition Impact Award
Dr Garth Funston, Clinical Research Associate at the Cambridge Primary Care Cancer Group and CanTest, will receive the inaugural Transformational Research Award from the World Ovarian Cancer Coalition for his work on detecting ovarian cancer in primary care. The award is one of 12 Impact Awards which will be made by the Coalition at a […]
Could Ovarian Cancer Prediction Models Improve the Triage of Symptomatic Women in Primary Care?
A new CanTest study, just published in Cancers, indicates that a newly developed ovarian cancer prediction model could be used to help select women, with relevant symptoms who are undergoing testing in primary care, for specialist referral based on their cancer risk. Ovarian cancer has the worst prognosis of any gynaecological cancer, accounting for over […]
GP views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer assessment in primary care: results from the CanImpact study
New evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on GP assessment of patients who may have cancer indicates need for urgent action. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced different aspects of patients’ cancer pathways, from diagnosis to treatment, mortality and survival. Implications are also likely early in the diagnostic pathway, from symptom presentation to […]
Artificial intelligence techniques could help with earlier diagnosis of cancer in primary care: a systematic review
Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be applied to primary care data to facilitate the early diagnosis of cancer, according to the first international review of studies on this topic. Promising studies applied AI techniques to some elements of the electronic health record (EHR), but did not incorporate all of the available data. Some commercially developed […]
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