Trial assesses feasibility of adding abdominal CT scanning for kidney cancer to ongoing lung screening trial in Yorkshire. A new video introduces the pioneering Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial (YKST), which is led by Professor Grant Stewart (Department of Surgery) and Dr Juliet Usher-Smith (Primary Care Unit) at the University of Cambridge. The trial is assessing the feasibility of […]
Research Alert: Targeting kidney cancer screening at people at higher risk shows promise and would be acceptable to the public
This research briefing on kidney cancer screening describes recent work at the University of Cambridge led by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith and Professor Grant Stewart. Kidney cancer is the 7th most common cancer in the UK and the incidence is projected to rise by 26% between 2014 and 2035, representing one of the fastest accelerating cancers within […]
New research finds public enthusiastic about kidney cancer screening
In this guest blog, Laragh Harvey-Kelly, a final-year medical student at the University of Cambridge, explains her recently published work on public attitudes to kidney cancer screening. She undertook this research as part of a Student Selected Component supervised by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith. Kidney cancer is on the rise and is projected to increase over […]
Current evidence on screening for renal cancer
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) rates are increasing worldwide, with high mortality and a high proportion of patients asymptomatic at diagnosis – so should we be screening for RCC? Patients with kidney cancer, their caregivers and clinicians alike, define the study of early detection and treatment of RCC as one of their top research priorities. The […]
Risk Prediction Models for Kidney Cancer: findings from our systematic review
In this blog, Dr Hannah Harrison, NIHR Systematic Review Methods Fellow at the Prevention Group, introduces research on approaches to screening for kidney cancer. Hannah and her colleagues looked at the usefulness of mathematical models predicting the likelihood of an individual developing kidney cancer in a recently conducted systematic review, published on 14 July 2020 […]