{"id":26,"date":"2015-06-16T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:19:21","slug":"national-cancer-intelligence-network-national-conference-belfast-8-10-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/2015\/06\/16\/national-cancer-intelligence-network-national-conference-belfast-8-10-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"National Cancer Intelligence Network National Conference, Belfast, 8-10 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4079-XL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\" wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4079-XL-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Clockwise: Prof David Weller, Robert Wilson, Prof Willie Hamilton, Dr Peter Murchie, Prof Greg Rubin \" width=\"227\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise: Prof David Weller, Robert Wilson, Prof Willie Hamilton, Dr Peter Murchie, Prof Greg Rubin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Belfast. Yes, Belfast. Just the sort of venue you\u2019d usually find an excuse to avoid if you are asked to give a session at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/sites\/NCIN2015\/\">National Cancer Intelligence Network national conference<\/a>. But you\u2019d have been wrong to avoid it. Of course, I come biased, having been born within a mile of the conference venue, and gone to school a few hundred yards away. Belfast is lovely. The city always had some majesty \u2013 having been really wealthy in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, before industrial decline set in, let alone the Troubles. But, hey, money \u2013 and peace \u2013 has really worked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"NCI_4404-X2\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/06\/NCI_4404-X2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NCIN matters. It\u2019s the biggest conference of all the cancer number-crunchers. And we have lots of numbers to crunch in cancer. Its one gap has been in primary care \u2013 and\u00a0rumour has it that previous meetings have had an undercurrent of low-level bleating that \u2018the cancer problem is really the GP\u2019s fault\u2019. So, I was asked to go and lecture to disprove \u2013 or was it to prove \u2013 that point. I can\u2019t tell you how well the lecture was received (though I was given a shamrock tie and a bottle of whiskey) but I can tell you I was mistaken for Sir Richard Peto, the amazing epidemiologist who knows everything about smoking. I must put it on my CV\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Willie Hamilton, Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics, UEMS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast. Yes, Belfast. Just the sort of venue you\u2019d usually find an excuse to avoid if you are asked to give a session at the National Cancer Intelligence Network national conference. But you\u2019d have been wrong to avoid it. Of course, I come biased, having been born within a mile of the conference venue, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Cancer Intelligence Network National Conference, Belfast, 8-10 June 2015 - Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/apex\/2015\/06\/16\/national-cancer-intelligence-network-national-conference-belfast-8-10-june-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Cancer Intelligence Network National Conference, Belfast, 8-10 June 2015 - Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Belfast. 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