YKST - Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial - Primary Care Unit

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: To quantify uptake of non-contrast abdominal CT scan to screen for RCC (and other abdominal cancers) as part of a combined screening modality with CT chest in a lung health check To assess the acceptability to patients of combined lung and RCC screening by non-contrast CT scanning To assess the acceptability to healthcare professionals involved in the screening of combining RCC screening by non-contrast CT scanning with lung cancer screening To pilot the majority of procedures for a subsequent RCT of RCC screening by non-contrast CT scanning within lung cancer screening
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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