Title: | YKST – Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial |
Project Description: | Around six in 10 people with kidney cancer do not experience any symptoms, and they are often only diagnosed during tests for another condition or reason. This means over a third of patients are diagnosed at a late stage when the cancer is more difficult to treat. Just six in 10 patients with kidney cancer live for five years after diagnosis. The Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial (YKST) will investigate the feasibility of developing a full kidney cancer screening clinical trial.
People taking part in a pioneering lung screening trial in Leeds (YLST) will also be offered an extra kidney scan immediately following the CT scan of their lungs; this will add 10-15 seconds to the procedure. The aims of this study are:
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Funder information: | Yorkshire Cancer Research – £611,205 |
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Start date: | 1st October 2020 |
End date: | 31st March 2023 |
Contact person: | Dr Juliet Usher-Smith |
Contact Details: | E-mail: jau20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
Collaborators: | Professor Grant Stewart (Department of Surgery) Mrs Angela Pushpa-Rajah (Department of Surgery) Professor Matthew Callister (University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) Mr Jon Cartledge (St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds) Dr Simon Burbidge (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) Dr Golnessa Masson (Primary Care Unit) Sabrina Rossi (Department of Oncology) Anna Wright (St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds) Suzanne Rogerson Professor Simon Griffin (Primary Care Unit) Phil Alsop (PPI) Philip Dondi (PPI) |
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