Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog

Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog

In category: Cancer


APEx End of Year Report by Professor Richard Neal – Director of APEx (Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care).

Wow, it has been an amazing year, and my first full year as Director of APEx (Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care). I wanted to take this opportunity to give an overview of the year in some numbers. And there have been so many achievements over the past 12 months, that I am not going […]


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“It’s good to just bounce ideas and learn from each other’s perspectives” Ayodele, Public Collaborator – Public co-applicant reflections on the first Public Patient Involvement (PPI) meeting for the NLR Project funded by Cancer Research UK.

Andrew, Celia, Neomi and Ayodele (left to right) The project: Clinical utility of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in identifying patients at risk of cancer diagnosis in primary care: a cohort study using routine electronic health records Research group: Sarah Bailey, Richard Neal, Sarah Price, Luke Mounce, Liz Down, Tanimola Martins, Elizabeth Shepherd, David Shotter, Celia Butler, […]


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Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s – our study protocol was accepted for publication! – by Dr Deepthi Lavu

Switching specialities mid-way through your medical career is hard work. Imagine moving from fast paced Obstetrics and Gynaecology to equally challenging night shift free General Practice. Add to that, trying to change the tracks of your research focus from largely secondary care based women’s health to primary care; it is fun to say the least. […]


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Southwest Society for Academic Primary Care conference by Laura Gill – Research Assistant (Qualitative health services primary care cancer diagnostics)

In March this year, I attended the Southwest Society for Academic Primary Care conference along with Eve Kingston, Sarah Price and Luke Mounce. Eve and I had been accepted to present on work around the OSCA study (investigating non-attendance at cancer referral appointments in people with anxiety and/or depression), with Eve presenting her scoping review […]


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Q&A with APEx’s Early and Mid-Career Researcher Representative – Dr Sarah Moore

I’m a GP and clinical research fellow, currently working on a Wellcome funded doctoral fellowship. My area of research is improving early cancer diagnosis in primary care and I’m developing cancer risk prediction models for symptomatic patients. I’m also really interested in machine learning and its increasing relevance to our research. My passion outside of […]


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Experience at the 2024 Ca-PRI Cancer in Primary Care Conference as an Early Career Researcher by Ge Chen

My name is Ge Chen, also known as Wawa. I am a graduate research assistant working in the DISCO group. The project I am currently working on involves combining genetic risk scores with routine test results to predict prostate cancer in primary care settings. The abstract of this project was accepted by the 2024 Ca-PRI […]


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Improving the clinical utility of the platelet count for early cancer diagnosis by Associate Professor Sarah Bailey.

I presented a seminar as part of the Academic Primary Care at Exeter (APEx) seminar series in June 2024. The focus of my seminar was the clinical utility of the platelet count, measured as part of a standard full blood count, in cancer detection. This topic is particularly significant given the crucial role that early […]


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PSA testing, prostate cancer and ethnicity – the Epic study

Authors: Tanimola Martins and Liz Down One of the beauties of traveling on UK motorways is the ability to make pit stops at service stations, where you can take care of necessities like using the restroom, grabbing a bite to eat, squeezing in some exercise, or even jotting down a blog post. Probably not in […]


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