Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Doctors could soon be able to predict your individual chances of getting cancer and offer personalised detection and prevention, thanks to a new research project involving the University of Exeter. Today, Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are announcing £10 […]
Five days before Christmas we received the wonderful news that our NIHR School for Primary Care Research grant application “OSCA” had been successful. Our study focuses on attendance at suspected-cancer investigations in people with anxiety and/or depression. The ideas arose from NIHR programme grant “Spotting Cancer Among Comorbidities” and from people’s stories about how their […]
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, accounting for around 10% of all new cancers, and is the second most common cause of cancer death (1). As the symptoms of colorectal cancer are often vague and frequently caused by benign conditions, selection for investigation can be difficult. As a result, colorectal cancer is […]