Does the bowel cancer screening programme in England prevent deaths?
The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme is on track to meet its objective of reducing deaths from bowel cancer. Our recently published study, the first […]
Is vaping the most powerful weapon we have against lung cancer?
This post is by Georgia Mannion-Krase. Georgia is the Research Follow-up Portfolio Manager in the Cancer Research UK & King’s College London Cancer Prevention […]
How can we monitor improvements in early diagnosis?
This post was created by Amy Tickle, a Cancer Research UK-funded PhD student in the Cancer Prevention Group. Amy is currently in her second year […]
CERVICAL SCREENING AWARENESS WEEK: Enjoy a scroll through our year!
For the week that’s in it – Cervical Screening Awareness Week – we have pulled together a round-up of the cervical screening related blogs we […]
‘The tragedy of thousands who need not die’: A history of cervical screening in England Part II
This post follows ‘A history of cervical screening in England Part I’ written by guest author Scarlett Dargan. Scarlett read History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She […]
HPV Vaccination in Japan: The Journey to Resuming a National Immunisation Programme
This post was written by guest author Maddie Rose Baker. Maddie is an International Journalism Master’s student at City, University of London. She also is a […]
‘The tragedy of thousands who need not die’: A history of cervical screening in England Part I
This post was written by guest author Scarlett Dargan. Scarlett read History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She is now studying for a master’s in journalism at […]
PODCAST: Remote Consultations in Primary Care
Today we are speaking with Dr Thomas Round on the topic of remote consultations in general practice. Dr Thomas Round is a GP in north-east […]
What are women’s views of personalised breast cancer risk assessment and risk-stratified breast screening?
This post was written by Charlotte Kelley Jones. Charlotte is a postgraduate research (PGR) student within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and School […]
Building back better: How can cancer screening & prevention level up?
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current government has committed to ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ communities across the UK. These slogans […]
Pride in Research: The legacy of erasure and the future of LGBT+ inclusive trials
Note: this author uses the term ‘queer’ to refer to both: people who did not have terms like ‘LGBT+’ during their lives; and as an […]